Appendix A. Running OpenShift on a Virtual Machine

OpenShift Origin is the free and open source flavor of OpenShift PaaS. It is the upstream project to both OpenShift Online and Enterprise. You will learn how to run OpenShift Origin in a Virtual Machine (VM) running on your machine. This will help you work with OpenShift even when you are not connected to the Internet. You can use the OpenShift Origin VM as your development environment to test your changes, and then when you are ready for deployment, you can push the source code to OpenShift Online. To use the OpenShift Origin VM as your development environment, run the rhc setup --server command. The --server option should point to the OpenShift Origin VM broker. You can refer to the Specifying a different OpenShift server hostname recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started with OpenShift, for more details.

To prepare yourself, you will need to have VirtualBox installed on your machine. If you do not have it installed, please download...