The document introduces OpenShift, a free platform as a service for cloud applications supported by Red Hat, highlighting its benefits for both developers and operations teams. It covers key components of OpenShift such as brokers, nodes, gears, cartridges, and client tools. A demo is included, showcasing steps to deploy a JBoss app and integrate a MySQL database.

1. OpenShift Community Day
Introduction
Bill DeCoste
Principal Software Engineer
wdecoste@redhat.com
1

2. What is OpenShift?
Red Hat’s free platform as a service for applications in the cloud.
2

3. What’s supported?
3

4. •
Operations care about stability and performance
•
Developers just want environments without waiting
OpenShift Enterprise creates a peaceful
environment for both parties
4

5. FLAVORS OF
OPENSHIFT
Open
Source
Project origin
On-
Public premise
Cloud or Private
Service Cloud
Software
5

6. KEY TERMS
•
Broker – Management host, orchestration of Nodes
•
Node – Compute host containing Gears
•
Gear – Allocation of fixed memory, compute, and storage
resources for running applications
•
Cartridge – A technology/framework (PHP, Perl, Java/JEE,
Ruby, Python, MySQL, etc.) to build applications
•
Application – Instantiation of a Cartridge
•
Client Tools – CLI, Eclipse, Web Console for creating and
managing applications
6

7. Demo
1. Bring up a JBoss App
2. Add a MySQL database
3. Gear Access
4. Push a code change
5. Action Hooks
6. Markers
7