Before we can deploy our application, we need to have the right access and tools ready for the task. In this section, we will create a GitHub account, that we can use as a repository for our microservices. For publishing our microservice code into GitHub, we will install and configure Git on our system. Then, we will create an OpenShift account that we will use to create a cloud application and link our OpenShift account to our GitHub account. Finally, we will install and configure the OpenShift command line tools to use in our examples.
Setting things up
Creating a GitHub account
In this chapter, we will use GitHub as the platform for storing our Git repositories. This will be required to deploy our microservices. If you...