In the previous chapters, we did some serious magic in order to build our application. To be able to run the builds, we executed the following command:
oc create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wildfly-swarm/sti-wildflyswarm/master/1.0/wildflyswarm-sti-all.json
In previous chapters, when we wanted to build our application, we invoked the following command:
oc new-app wildflyswarm-10-centos7~https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Cloud-Development-with-WildFly.git (...)
After a lot of mysterious stuff had happened (as indicated by growing logs), we were able to see our application working. Now, it's time to explain what actually happened under the hood. Let's get to know OpenShift builds.
In general, an OpenShift build is an operation that transforms input parameters into a resulting object that is used to start an application. In most...