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Kubernetes and OpenShift

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Kubernetes and OpenShift

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- So now you know about containers. You should also know about Kubernetes and OpenShift. So it all starts with OCI. OCI, as you know, is the Open Containers Initiative, and it provides standardized container images, which you can use on your local computer, but the same image can also be used in cloud. Now, if you want to run images in cloud, an orchestration platform is needed. So what is orchestration? Well, orchestration is that what takes care of automated managing, scaling, and networking of containers in cloud and data center environments. Because in a cloud environment you have different needs than on a standalone computer. Very often the containers in cloud are offering big web shops and if suddenly an increase of capacity is needed, well, you need to be able to scale it up, and that is exactly what orchestration can do for you. Kubernetes is a standard open source orchestration platform, and OpenShift is the Red Hat Kubernetes distribution. Now, it is not my intention here to…

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