OpenShift: A new era Kubenetes
OpenShift has taken the Ideology of DevOps to a next level. Seriously RedHat had done a great Job 👏 .By taking view of pipelines from Jenkins , Utilizing the resources to its fullest by considering containerization technology, Providing a very user friendly Graphical User interface just tell me who don’t want that .
The idea was taken forth by taking Kubernetes into consideration and seeing how well it can monitor and make use of resources.
“ The only reason to come up with something new is very much similar to asking yourself what’s limit in the older one✨”
What OpenShift offers more than K8s ?
Well both offers a scalable infrastructure , large scale deployment strategies, management services and many more features. Lets see some of the speciality that OpenShift offers over former Kubernetes.
- Better Deployment Strategies
The rolling update was one of the best strategies of Kubernetes that offered to have a very less or negligible amount of downtime.
By making use of pipeline strategies, OpenShift has capability to directly update from the source code of a docker or container image .This is known as S2I approach
2. Better Security
OpenShift restricts using root user to directly get connected over their application. For this we need some kind of token based manual login
3. Separate Image managed registries
In Openshift we can separately manage our container images and customize them according to our need and everything can be managed directly over their own registry
4. Better monitoring
Here by monitoring I mean logs and output stuffs have a far more clearer and proper answer to any error. Its already been clubbed with tools like Grafana and Prometheus to have a better understanding of logs and graphs.
There’s more to it but knowing this much is enough I think.
Industry Use Cases
There a lot of use cases that various IT and other sector companies also made profit out of OpenShift some are:
- Cisco
Cisco was already a Big IT industry in it own and this demanded their IT and developers to remain busy in different stuffy rather on their own. Its been analysed that delays can cost the company business.
Cisco turned to Red Hat to design ant build its LAE- Lightweight application environment, for Openshift as a platform service (PaaS).
Cisco developers used to wait as long as 3 months for projects to be provisioned. “The developers push a button and the service is delivered within a matter of … minutes,” said Agrahara.
This way company moved from months to minutes for faster innovation and profited themselves
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The key to happier Cisco customers? Higher IT productivity (redhat.com)
2. Emirates NBD
One of the powerful and largest banks in UAE which provides retail, wholesale, and corporate financial services to its customers in the UAE and international markets
The bank was growing rapidly but needed a setup that is highly scalable and secure server based banking since the banks lacked a huge in IT banking.
They realized their need and collaborated with RedHat to launched a open source private banking and it became first private cloud run by a bank at scale in the Middle East, using technology similar to cloud-native companies.
“With our DevOps pipeline and Red Hat, we did a proof of concept for WhatsApp banking in 3 days,” said Ali Rey, vice president of Cloud Platforms at Emirates NBD. “Previously it would have taken 6 months, maybe even a year.” The new platform established a flexible yet stable foundation for private cloud today — and hybrid cloud tomorrow.
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Emirates NBD builds cloud platform for innovative banking (redhat.com)
Conclusion
I think they won’t stop .The industry leaders like Musk, Bill Gates , Mark and Vimal Sir also are just amazing and sometimes can be crazy too. How quickly they realize the need and directly get to implementation. But thanks to this craziness that bring newer and better projects day by day ………
Recently I have also shared a story on how Kubernetes came into existence through the technology upgradation for provisioning of Operating Systems. Do check it out.