[cpitman]

Remember that OpenShift.io is just one (newer) way to work with OpenShift, currently focused on deploying to the hosted OpenShift Online.

But if you are looking at doing self-hosted Kubernetes, you really should give OpenShift a look. It does a lot to give sane defaults for things like ingress and building containers, while simplifying the deployment story.

For just getting started and kicking the tires, you can use minishift to spin up a local VM with everything installed and configured: https://www.openshift.org/minishift/

Disclaimer: I also work for Red Hat. We're everywhere :-)