Industry Use-Cases of Openshift
What is Openshit and why do we need such a tool?
Openshift is the containerization software produced by Red Hat. Openshift is built around Docker containers orchestrated and managed by Kubernetes on a foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. OKD serves the upstream for the Openshift container Platform. When everything was working fine with Kubernetes then why we needed a platform like Openshift? There were some shortcomings while using Kubernetes in the organization and Openshift used to solve the problems such as building images and supplying them to the Kubernetes for creating containerized applications. Openshift provides functionality like Source to Image (S2I) that creates the images from the SCM tool and it keeps the images in the private registry with versions. It also provides features like monitoring(like Grafana) and provides support for all these services that makes it a good choice for an Enterprise.
How Softbank improved development productivity with the Openshift?
Softbank learned the best practices for DevOps while working with Redhat Consulting and established the roadmap to adopt the DevOps for its personal agent manager(PAM) project. The adoption of the Redhat Openshift Container Platform improved the productivity, collaboration and deployment frequency of the product.
Earlier, SoftBank was using the waterfall model approach and after consulting with Redhat they shifted to agile and DevOps methodology. They learnt the key steps of successful DevOps adoption including agile, continuous integration and delivery(CI/CD) and automated testing.
To better support its new DevOps capabilities, SoftBank Corp. expanded its Red Hat software environment to include the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Deployed and maintained within SoftBank Corp.’s datacenter, OpenShift Container Platform stores the company’s application services, offers dynamic storage provisioning, and supports work for different teams and applications through multi-tenancy and packaged images that support feature changes within individual containers.
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