This document introduces OpenShift, Red Hat's free platform as a service for cloud applications. OpenShift aims to create a peaceful environment for both developers and operations teams by providing developers with environments to build and deploy applications without waiting, while also ensuring stability and performance for operations. The document outlines the key concepts in OpenShift including brokers, nodes, gears, cartridges, applications, and client tools, and proposes demonstrating creating a JBoss application, adding a MySQL database, accessing gears, pushing code changes, action hooks, and markers.