[rgovostes]

I've been wondering along the same lines. I work at an academic institution where small one-off applications are regularly developed for research projects. The technology stack is not consistent across applications and the scientists do not have the motivation to radically change their development habits.

I'd like to move these applications to a common platform, to reduce some of the maintenance burden, introduce monitoring, perform security audits, etc.

I vaguely imagine this platform as being self-service, where the user creates a project and points it to a git repository with a docker-compose.yml file, and then a minute later the service is reachable at https://projectxyz.____.edu.

[cpitman]

You are describing OpenShift (https://www.okd.io), a kubernetes distribution that adds on top a lot of common needs like monitoring, log aggregation, git->image build workflow, self-service via a CLI or web console, etc.

I work at Red Hat, happy to answer questions. We also just released OpenShift 4.0, which brings in all the features from the CoreOS acquisition, like single push button kubernetes and OS upgrades.

[rgovostes]

Thanks, I thought OpenShift sounded like it. Does the open source version include a web interface as well as the commercial product?

[cpitman]

Yeah, Red Hat's products are (almost across the board) 100% open source. No "extra" features that you have to pay for.