Research for Industry Use-Case Of OpenShift

What is openShift?

OpenShift is a cloud development Platform as a Service (PaaS) developed by Red Hat. It is an open source development platform, which enables the developers to develop and deploy their applications on cloud infrastructure. It is very helpful in developing cloud-enabled services. This tutorial will help you understand OpenShift and how it can be used in the existing infrastructure. All the examples and code snippets used in this tutorial are tested and working code, which can be simply used in any OpenShift setup by changing the current defined names and variables.

Why industry use openshift here is some benefits.

Self-service provisioning

This self-service provisioning helps improve developer productivity by allowing your development team to work with the tools they are most comfortable using — speeding up the development process by enabling faster creation and deployment of applications. At the same time, OpenShift allows your operations staff to retain control over the environment as a whole.

Enable DevOps and department-wide collaboration

One industry that can benefit from OpenShift’s enablement of enhanced DevOps processes is the webhosting and development field. Companies competing in this industry are constantly racing to offer their customers enhanced functionality. For instance, as web commerce increases by leaps and bounds, companies and individuals progressively look to sell their products over the web. They can do this by adding web sales functionality to their own sites via widgets designed for this purpose, or by purchasing sites with built-in sales functionality.

Enterprise-grade, container-based platform with no vendor lock-in

Consider the case of a company with worldwide manufacturing facilities that implements a proprietary container platform tool. If the company shifts its production approach to a process that requires it to change to a new operating system — one that isn’t supported by its containerization platform — the company will face the expensive task of redoing its containerization orchestration on another platform.

Innovate and go to market faster

Orchestrating container usage via the OpenShift platform provides a marked efficiency advantage to chipmakers who utilize containers for the next-generation virtualization benefits they offer. Deploying an increased number of apps on existing system resources enables a chipmaker to provide its developers with an expanded toolset to increase their ability to innovate. In an industry where a chipmaker’s main products can become outdated — if not obsolete — within a year or less, the ability to innovate and bring a product to market rapidly is a significant competitive advantage.

Accelerate application development

Deploying and managing containers at scale is a complicated process. OpenShift enables efficient container orchestration, allowing rapid container provisioning, deploying, scaling, and management. The tool enhances the DevOps process by streamlining and automating the container management process. Cutting down on time that would otherwise be spent managing containers improves your company’s productivity and speeds up application development.

Industry use case GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA IMPROVES SERVICES WITH OPEN SOURCE

The Government of British Columbia needed to develop innovative public services faster to meet evolving demand and improve its user experience. The province established the BC Developers’ Exchange to take advantage of the innovation of private sector technology companies and entrepreneurs by supporting collaboration using open source tools, such as online code repository GitHub and enterprise software from Red Hat. As a result, the province can support agile, collaborative development following a DevOps approach, create and update services faster, and balance innovation with security requirements.

EVOLVING SERVICE DEVELOPMENT TO MEET MODERN DEMANDS

As consumers increasingly expect seamless, easy digital experiences, governments are seeking to make their digital services faster and easier to use. The Government of British Columbia offers public services that include healthcare, education, transportation, justice administration, and natural resource management. The province sought to improve its user experience, but its datacenter infrastructure was too slow and fragmented to offer the necessary speed and development capabilities. Basic web server access could take 3–4 months, resulting in a 4–6 month time frame just to launch a project. “We got a lot of complaints about how long and difficult it was to get a virtual server,” said Ian Bailey, assistant deputy minister of technology services for the Office of the Chief Information Officer for the Government of British Columbia. “So we went looking for ways to escape that friction and delay. We want to offer what you’d expect from a modern service provider, that same kind of convenience, but with security behind it.” The province decided to tap the potential of the private sector to improve its IT environment and, in turn, its public-facing services. “Public sector doesn’t always know what’s valuable, and industry isn’t always informed about available resources,” said Peter Watkins, co-founder and executive director of the BC Developers’ Exchange. “We have a vibrant tech industry and thought, ‘What if we could give private sector developers access to the problems we haven’t solved yet?’”

BUILDING A FOUNDATION FOR OPEN SOURCE COLLABORATION

The BC Developers’ Exchange was created to be a forum for collaboration between the public sector and innovative private sector organizations and entrepreneurs, based on an open source foundation. The Developers’ Exchange offers the private sector access to public sector digital assets, such as application programming interfaces (APIs) and smaller, working instances of the province’s IT systems. The province supports this initiative with open source solutions, including hosting code on GitHub, a web-based repository. “Innovative developers use GitHub and open source,” said Todd Wilson, DevOps product director of the BC Developers’ Exchange. “So rather than try to invite people into the walls of government, we decided to go outside the walls and join them.”

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