Hi everyone, my name is Sai Vennam, and I'm a developer advocate with IBM. Today, we want to talk about OpenShift. OpenShift is a platform that allows you to
run containerized applications and workloads and is powered by Kubernetes under the covers. Something that I want to clear up, right off the bat, is the different flavors that are available with OpenShift. Now the open source project that actually powers OpenShift is called OKD, or Origin Community Distribution, and you can start with that for free today. OpenShift, on the other hand, has multiple flavors and it's an offering that comes with Red Hat support regardless of where you choose to run your applications and workloads. Let's take a look at what the architecture
of installing and working with OpenShift would look like. One of the big advantages is being able to
take advantage of public or private resources for running OpenShift. That includes bare metal or virtualized hardware, whether it's on-premises or on a cloud provider. On top of that, we're going to have the operating system which is generally Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but you can also use CentOS when working with OKD. On top of that, we're going to have Kubernetes. And if you want to learn more about Kubernetes, check out some of the other great videos that we have. So, we'll have the Kubernetes layer here. Finally, this where OpenShift really comes in. It's a layer that's built on top of Kubernetes, and makes working with it much easier. OpenShift takes a lot of the difficult tasks,
like deploying applications and doing things like the day-to-day operations, easier by building a web console in the CLI, as well as a facade on top of Kubernetes, to make all of those tasks just a little bit more streamlined and easy to do. Let's go with two different types of engineers that really benefit from taking advantage of OpenShift. We'll start with developers. So, we’ll sketch out a developer up here. Now what does a developer have to do? Well, they generally have to write applications, create changes, test them out, deploy them into a cluster, and they're really just focused on that, and any other kind of distractions will slow them down from that task. So, with that, the first thing that they're going to want to do when starting with OpenShift is to create a project and an application. To do so, OpenShift has two different ways of enabling developers to work with their platform. So, one, you can take advantage of the CLI. And there's also a really powerful web console that they can work with as well. So, the first thing that the Dev wants to do is take advantage of one of those 2 form factors to create a project and an application, and there's templates for all different kinds of source code and programming languages that the Dev wants to work with. So, we'll go ahead and do that and then once they get into a flow of creating updates to an application, the very first that they're going to want to do is push changes to a repository. And in this case, let's use GitHub as an example. Say that this developer is making changes to GitHub; that's really all they need to do. Behind the scenes, OpenShift is going to take care of the rest. So, when that application or project was created, OpenShift, in the backend, will create a Jenkins job and pipeline that helps power deploying this application. So, once code gets pushed into that GitHub, it will trigger Webhook, which kicks off a Jenkins job, which is going to do two things: First, what it is going to do is do something call "sourced image" which is going to create a Docker image out of that that source code. Next, it is going to go ahead and take that
and put it into a registry, a private registry, which comes built-in in OpenShift and, in fact, you can actually use public registries, or your own registry, if you have it outside of this context as well. Once that image gets built and pushed into that registry, next what OpenShift will do is go ahead and push that into the actual cluster, and that's what we've got here is 2 hosts that are in our cluster in OpenShift. We're going to take that image, and let's say that we set it up to deploy 2 times ... and we'll call this v1 of the application. So, let's kind of overview that process one
more time: So, the developer makes some change to a code, then Jenkins will kind of kick off that build, create an image, push that image to a registry and then, a little bit of a different thing here, so, in this step right here OpenShift takes advantage of something called image streams, it's a little bit different to how Kubernetes will do things and essentially what it enables you to do is whenever a change is kind of detected with that image an image stream will allow you to push those with no downtime to applications, so what it will do is, you know, with that new version of that code, it'll bring down the old version, start the new version until we've rolled out the whole new version of that application. So, this is just a few ways that OpenShift
makes developers’ lives easier. Next, let's talk let's talk about Operations
Engineers and how OpenShift makes their lives a little bit easier. I'd say there's 2 major things that operation teams really need to worry about on a day-to-day basis, and it's totally different than what
a developer needs to do. So, for one, they need to maintain a high
availability and they need to make sure things like site reliability engineers do this to make sure the applications are available, and the infrastructure is healthy. And to do so OpenShift has that web console that we've talked about and in addition to the CLI, the web console is a great way for them to really take advantage and make sure they're getting that availability number that they're looking for. So, that's one way that operations engineers benefit from taking advantage of OpenShift. Next, let's talk about maybe scaling out one of these hosts. So, let's say that we've taken advantage of all of the load, or all of the capacity, of these hosts and we want to scale out another one. The process of scaling up a new host and adding it into the cluster can be quite painstaking, but OpenShift takes advantage of something called Ansible Playbooks which are a great way of automating all of those different tasks that an operations engineer might have to do. One of them being: scaling up the number of hosts. So, by taking advantage of an Ansible Playbook, they can go ahead and spin up the creation of a new host and bring that into that cluster. This is just one of the examples of how OpenShift makes Operations Engineers lives easier in the day-to-day. Thanks for joining me for this quick overview of OpenShift. If you enjoyed this video be sure to drop
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