Industry use cases of Openshift
Red Hat OpenShift is a trusted Kubernetes enterprise platform. It is a security-focused, consistent foundation ready to enable modern, hybrid-cloud application development and life-cycle management for any application, in any location, across physical, virtual, private and public clouds, and in edge computing. Designed to deliver continuous innovation and speed at any scale,
Red Hat OpenShift empowers organizations to be ready for today and build for the future.
OpenShift enables efficient container orchestration, allowing rapid container provisioning, deploying, scaling, and management. The tool enhances the DevOps process by streamlining and automating the container management process.
Openshift use for —
Businesses depend on IT to drive innovation in the digital economy. It is very important for industries to eliminate unnecessary downtime that often occurs between coding and deployment of applications, so organizations can deliver the improvements in business demands in weeks or even days, rather than months.
The key to faster innovation lies in enabling people, processes, and technology to work seamlessly together. This means accelerating application development and increasing operational efficiencies. But more importantly, enabling collaboration between the application development and IT operations teams to expedite innovation and time-to-market.
Red Hat’s OpenShift solution empowers both application development and IT operations teams to innovate faster. Developers will be able to deliver high-quality software quicker, while operations teams can focus on setting up reliable, standardized, and secure runtime environments.
Advantage of OpenShift
1. Rapid reach to Market
OpenShift enables your development team to focus on doing what they do best — designing and testing applications. When they are freed from spending excessive time managing and deploying containers, they can speed up the development process and get products to market more rapidly.
2. Quickens application development
OpenShift enables efficient container orchestration, allowing rapid container provisioning, deploying, scaling, and management. The tool enhances the DevOps process by streamlining and automating the container management process.
3. Decreases Dependencies
The DevOps process relies upon transparent communication between all involved parties. Containerization provides a convenient means of enabling your IT operations staff to test instances of a new app. OpenShift assists this process by making it easy to test apps throughout your IT architecture without being impeded by framework conflicts, deployment issues, or language discrepancies.
4. Self-service provisioning
Assembling the proper tools to create applications on your system architecture can be a challenge, especially at the enterprise level. OpenShift makes the process easy by allowing for the integration of the tools you use most across your entire operating environment.
OpenShift v/s Kubernetes
Security —
OpenShift has stronger security policies than Kubernetes. The security policies of OpenShift restrict you from running simple container images as well as many official images. OpenShift requires specific privileges to maintain a minimum security level.
Both platforms offer authorization through role-based access control (RBAC). The security context is an essential element in Kubernetes. OpenShift has a separate security context constraint (SCC). The OpenShift approach outweighs that of Kubernetes in the security aspect.
Web-UI —
Web-based User Interface (UI) is important for effective cluster administration. You have to install the Kubernetes dashboard separately and use the kube-proxy to forward a port of your local machine to the cluster’s admin server. In addition, you have to manually create a bearer token to provide authorization and authentication, since the dashboard does not have a login page.
OpenShift’s web console has a login page. You can easily access the console and create or change most resources through a form. You can also visualize servers, projects, and cluster roles.
CI/CD —
You can use both OpenShift and Kubernetes to construct CI/CD pipelines. However, neither platform provides a full CI/CD solution. You need to integrate both Platforms with additional tools like automated testing and monitoring, and CI servers to build a full CI/CD pipeline.
This process is easier in OpenShift because it offers a certified Jenkins container that you can use for the CI server. Plain Kubernetes does not offer an official CI/CD integration solution. You need to integrate third-party tools like CircleCI to build a CI/CD pipeline with Kubernetes.
Companies using OpenShift —
Ford
Ford Motor Company seeks to provide mobility solutions at accessible prices to its customers, including dealerships and parts distributors who sell to a variety of retail and commercial consumers. To speed delivery and simplify maintenance, the company sought to create a container-based application platform to modernize its legacy stateful applications and optimize its hardware use. With this platform, based on Red Hat OpenShift and supported by Red Hat and Sysdig technology, Ford has improved developer productivity, enhanced its security and compliance approach, and optimized its hardware use to improve operating costs. Now, the company can focus on exploring new ways to innovate, from big data to machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Benefits
- Improved productivity with standardized development environment and self-service provisioning
- Enhanced security with enterprise technology from Red Hat and continuous monitoring provided by Sysdig
- Significantly reduced hardware costs by running OpenShift on bare metal
Lenovo
Lenovo wanted to achieve a rapid digital transformation to improve its capabilities and meet businesses demands faster. However, this transformation required frequent updates and changes to the company’s entire IT environment, and some legacy systems could not keep up. As a result, the team faced major challenges in quickly developing and delivering resources. Lenovo needed a comprehensive solution that could support agile application delivery, increase productivity, and improve internal support for DevOps.
To meet its requirements, Lenovo decided to implement cloud computing with a PaaS solution. “We chose PaaS as the preferred solution to gain efficient and agile support for our business team,” said Zhenyu Yao, executive director, Integrated Technology Service at Lenovo. Building on its strong relationship with Red Hat, Lenovo chose Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as its PaaS solution.
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