[jstrachan]

OpenShift is Red Hat's supported fork & distribution of Kubernetes - so its another platform we can install and use Jenkins X on.

OpenShift also includes some Jenkins support; e.g. you can add BuildConfig resources via a YAML file in the OpenShift CLI which will create a Jenkins server and a pipeline. But Jenkins X isn't yet integrated into OpenShift - but its easy to add yourself for now :)

If you are pondering which kubernetes cluster to try for developing Spring services: OpenShift is a good option if you are on premise. If you can use the public cloud then GKE on Google is super easy to use; AKS on Azure is getting there & EKS is looking like it will be good if you use AWS.

On the public clouds the managed kubernetes services are looking effectively free; you just pay for your compute + storage etc. So its hard to argue with free + managed + easy to use kubernetes - if you are allowed to use the public cloud!

[dankohn1]

OpenShift is Certified Kubernetes, so not a fork.

See: cncf.io/ck

(Disclosure: I run the Certified Kubernetes program at CNCF.)

[jstrachan]

OpenShift is a fork of the Kubernetes code base: https://github.com/openshift/origin

I.e. it’s not using the upstream distribution of Kubernetes like the public cloud vendors or Heptio etc.

It’s great it’s a Certified Kubernetes though!

[dankohn1]

Fork has a perjorative meaning, as in taking it and going their own direction. I would describe OpenShift as a distribution.