Getting Started with OpenShift

Intrigued by the possibilities of developing webapplications in the cloud? With this concise book, you get a quick hands-onintroduction to OpenShift, the open source Platform as a Service (PaaS)offering from Red Hat. You’ll learn the steps necessary to build, deploy, andhost a complete real-world application on OpenShift, without having to readlong, detailed explanations of the technologies involved.

Though the book uses Python, application examples in other languages areavailable on GitHub. If you can build web applications, use a command line, andprogram in Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, or Perl, you’re ready to getstarted.

• Dive in and create your first example application withOpenShift
• Modify the example with your own code and hot-deploy thechanges
• Add components such as a database, task scheduling, andmonitoring
• Use external libraries and dependencies in yourapplication
• Delve into networking, persistent storage, and backupoptions
• Explore ways to adapt your team processes to useOpenShift
• Learn OpenShift terms, technologies, and commands
• Get a list of resources to learn more about OpenShift andPaaS