Kubernetes was built for the needs of IT operations, not developers. Wouldn’t it be nice if you can write code and push to source control, then have your application up and running in minutes?
Azure Red Hat OpenShift runs Kubernetes at its core and includes everything you need to manage your development lifecycle, such as standardized workflows, support for multiple environments, continuous integration, release management, and more.
In this blog post, we’ll explore some of the features that make Azure Red Hat OpenShift a turnkey container platform with a significantly improved developer and operator experience.
Web Console – developer perspective
The developer perspective in the OpenShift Web Console provides an alternative view that is focused on developer use cases. The enhanced UI for application topology and application builds in the Web Console make it easier for developers to build, deploy, configure, and visualize containerized applications and cluster resources. You can use the developer perspective to view the application topology, deploy applications, setup and review application health monitoring and logging, and configure build pipelines.
Source-to-image (S2I)
Bring your code from Git, or push it from your development machine to build reproducible container images, using several built-in builder images for Perl, PHP, .NET Core, Go, Ruby, Python, Java and Node.js. You can even create your own builder images. Source-to-image automatically injects your application’s source or binary artifacts into a base image and assembles the artifacts with any required dependencies to create a new, ready-to-run image containing your application.
OpenShift Do
When creating applications to be deployed using containers, there are a lot of common build and deployment tasks that make up the inner development cycle. As a developer, you may need to write a Dockerfile, build containers locally, push them to a container registry, write lots of YAML and use kubectl apply before you can see your code running on the cluster. Odo (short for OpenShift Do) is a fast, iterative and straightforward CLI tool for developers who write, build and deploy applications on Kubernetes and OpenShift. Odo streamlines that inner loop to let you focus on your application’s source code. Its syntax and design uses concepts familiar to developers, such as projects, applications, and components. Odo can deploy applications in several development languages and frameworks. Deployment creation, build configurations and routes are automated and it is designed for quick iterations, as it detects changes to local code and deploys the updates to the cluster automatically.
OpenShift Serverless
Build portable event driven apps that scale with demand. Based on the open source Knative project, OpenShift Serverless simplifies the process of delivering code from development into production while abstracting away the underlying infrastructure. The serverless functionality will start the application containers when they are called by an event, such as an HTTP request and other triggers from a variety of event sources. The containers can also scale to zero, eliminating resource consumption when not in use.
Next steps
Adopting a container platform lets you keep up with application scale and complexity requirements. Azure Red Hat OpenShift is designed to make deploying and managing applications easier. It provides commercial support for the languages, databases, and tooling you already use, while providing easy access to Azure services such as Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Cosmos DB, to enable you create resilient and scalable cloud native applications. If you’re interested to see how this all works together, watch this short video to see how to deploy a multi-tier Java application from containers, from source code and through CI/CD into Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
Try Azure Red Hat OpenShift now. Start with the Azure Red Hat OpenShift documentation and continue your learning experience on the Azure video center. Connect with Microsoft and community experts to share feedback, learn from others, and find answers to your technical questions on the Azure Red Hat OpenShift topic on the Microsoft Q&A site.