Chapter 4. Deploying an OpenShift PaaS

Leading up to this point, we have focused pretty heavily on an end user or a developer perspective of OpenShift. Even discussions surrounding the OpenShift architecture, internal components, and walking through the flow of data through the environment is helpful to developers in understanding what's happening behind the scenes of the platform upon which they rely. While the journey through the architecture was invaluable to those of us in Systems Administration, Operations, or DevOps roles, it was not primarily focused on that audience, but it will change as we move forward. This chapter will be used as a resource not only for deploying OpenShift, but also for providing different avenues that can be taken by those who wish to work with their very own open source PaaS. Once again, note that this can be done with physical hardware, virtual machines, or cloud instances running on an IaaS cloud. Since we will be deploying on our own systems, we will be...