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by smarterclayton 3231 days ago
> Maybe the chances of that happening are low, but there are enough differences that from my understanding, I should not ever expect Kubernetes projects to be directly portable to OpenShift without modification (or vice-versa.)

It's true that openshift goes a lot further to disabling things that are dangerous or not ready. Ie preventing root containers, or not enabling third party resources until it went to beta. But everything that runs on Kube runs on openshift that depends on a beta feature or higher.

Re: other OSes - a large part of what we do at Red Hat is making all the other stuff work - Docker, filesystems, selinux, security, NFS, volume drivers, network, etc. A lot of times it's not worth the extra effort to track five distributions of anything, but instead to focus on making something actually work. The behind the scenes work outside of Kubernetes is just as important as the Go code, and so we focus on those few operating systems and making it all work together.
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yebyen 3231 days ago
The fact is, most Kubernetes projects I know are installed by Helm, and (it might have been you, personally who) explained to me that Helm is incompatible with a multitenant environment. I think they've made some strides since RBAC has gotten a little more polished, ... but please correct me if I'm wrong, OpenShift permissions model and RBAC are more compatible than I think.

The last I heard, you just can't really use Helm on OpenShift unless you go to some lengths to lock it down to a single namespace.

It would be amazing if someone could publish a Helm on OpenShift guide! Hmm, it seems you maybe already did: https://github.com/kubernetes/helm/issues/2517

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smarterclayton 3231 days ago
Helm isn't incompatible, it's just not currently set up for dealing with different tenants. You can use Helm in a single tenant fashion on OpenShift just like you can use it in a single tenant fashion on Kube today.

Starting with OpenShift 3.6 (on Kube 1.6) all RBAC roles between Kube and OpenShift are treated equivalently, and from OpenShift 3.7 onwards the OpenShift RBAC rules are just a compatible API shim on top of Kube RBAC. The out of the box rules on OpenShift are more restrictive simply to ensure that full multi-tenancy is possible, but they can always be lifted.

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yebyen 3231 days ago
Awesome. This makes me feel more optimistic about OpenShift, especially given that I probably can't realistically take Deis Workflow to production now.

(I don't know how much you've looked at Deis, but I couldn't think of anything better to compare it to than OpenShift. I could probably switch from Deis to OpenShift without too much hassle. Now I'm going to have to go ahead and try Deis _ON_ OpenShift, though :)

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