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by oso2k 3000 days ago
Full Disclosure: I work for Red Hat in the Container and PaaS Practice in Consulting.

As others here have said, it’s a Container Orchestration Platform and is a largely pluggable architecture that also manages at varying extents Clustered Computing Resources, Application Resource Management, SDN Networking, DNS, Service Discovery, Load Balancing, and other concerns of “Cloud Native Application Development and Deployment“.

You can try it out at http://kubernetesbyexample.com/ .
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lima 3000 days ago
Red Hat's open source OpenShift PaaS[1] is amazing. It has all the missing pieces you need for a production Kubernetes cluster: documentation and playbooks on how to run a production cluster[2], a build system, a container registry with fine-grained permissions, application templates, a logging framework...

Red Hat is a major contributor to Kubernetes and continually upstreams OpenShift features (like RBAC - they implemented it in OpenShift first, then upstreamed it, and then rebased OpenShift on top of it, removing the custom implementation).

I'm currently looking at migrating a large enterprise setup to Kubernetes/OpenShift.

[1]: https://github.com/openshift/origin

[2]: https://docs.openshift.org/latest/welcome/index.html

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Yhippa 3000 days ago
I really like OpenShift. I had a hard time grokking K8s but OpenShift is much more friendly. I was able to PoC a microservices app on OpenShift with Minishift[1]. This way you can play around with it locally and make sure you understand what you're doing. The documentation is pretty good. Red Hat has stepped up big time in this area.

[1]: https://www.openshift.org/minishift/

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majewsky 3000 days ago
No offense, please, but whenever I see a website describing a thing as $chain_of_buzzwords like this, I immediately close the tab. This is technically a correct definition, but completely unhelpful to a person coming in from the outside, who is not familiar with the problem space.

Heck, even I am not sure what "application resource management" means, after working with Kubernetes for two years now. I could make educated guesses, but nothing certain.

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