Welcome to the OpenShift Getting Started Workshop

Overview

This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to OpenShift from a developer’s perspective. Through practical, interactive exercises, you’ll learn how to build, deploy, and manage containerized applications on the OpenShift platform.

What You’ll Learn

Getting Started with OpenShift:

  • Use the OpenShift command line client and web console

  • Navigate the OpenShift developer interface and understand key concepts

Application Deployment and Management:

  • Deploy applications using pre-existing container images

  • Deploy applications directly from source code in Git repositories

  • Work with application labels to identify and organize components

  • Scale applications to handle varying traffic loads

Networking and Access:

  • Expose applications to external users through routes

  • Configure application networking and service discovery

Monitoring and Troubleshooting:

  • View and analyze application logs for debugging

  • Access application containers for direct interaction and troubleshooting

Database Integration:

  • Deploy databases from the OpenShift service catalog

  • Configure applications to connect to and use databases

Collaboration and Automation:

  • Grant access to other users for collaborative development

  • Set up webhooks to enable automated application builds from code changes

While this workshop uses Java applications, the concepts and techniques apply to applications built with .NET, Node.js, Python, and other runtimes.