Introducing OpenShift
OpenShift is a PaaS, which stands for Platform as a Service. OpenShift is Red Hat's PaaS, and you can find it in three different versions:
- OpenShift Origin: This one is the free and open source version of OpenShift. You can find its code stream on GitHub at https://github.com/openshift/origin.
- OpenShift Online (OSO): OpenShift Online is the version that we will use in this chapter. For the moment, you just need to know that it's a free PaaS, where you can deploy your application based on your favorite environment. We will discuss it later in the chapter. OpenShift Online is available for free at https://www.openshift.com.
- OpenShift Enterprise (OSE): OpenShift Enterprise is the version for which Red Hat provides support at the enterprise level.
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The latest version of OpenShift is 3. It has been entirely rewritten and is now based on a Linux container, using a Docker image format, Kubernetes, and much more.
Linux containers (in the middle of 2016, you...