Developing and deploying your first OpenShift application in the cloud

To begin, follow these steps:

1. Open your browser and point it to the following URL:https://console.preview.openshift.com/console/
2. Log in with your GitHub account and you will be ready to create your first project. Just click on the blue New Project button, as depicted in the following screenshot:
   

   OpenShift welcome page

3. When you click on the blue New Project button, you will have to fill in the form to create your own project. For reference, here is my form:
   

   OpenShift project creation form

4. Once done, you have to choose your application environment. In OpenShift, you have dozens of runtime environments to choose from, and more and more are appearing day by day. You can choose from Java-based environments to PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python, NodeJS, and databases, as shown in the screenshot here:
   

   OpenShift template page

5. While writing this book, JBoss EAP 7 (just announced at Red Hat Summit 2016) is not available yet on the OpenShift...