What is OpenShift?
OpenShift is a cloud development Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) developed by open-source provider Red Hat in 2011. Virtualization is the main concept behind OpenShift. It is written in Go, Ruby, and Angular JS and has support for Node.js, Python, Ruby, Perl, Go, and Java-based applications. Basically, it helps the user to develop, deploy, and manage container-based applications.
Features of OpenShift
- It provides quite a flexibility in managing the services running on-premises or with any cloud provider.
- It has automatic installation and upgrade features.
- It provides the environment of Multicluster management.
Benefits of OpenShift
- It deals with tracking dependencies.
- It accelerates the development of an application.
- It provides a friendly user interface that helps the user to build, deploy, scale, monitor and implement the task, both as an administrator and developer.
Drawbacks of OpenShift
- Monitoring the network traffic across the components is difficult.
- OpenShift is not compatible with AUFS.
- It is relatively hard-to-understand logs and is not quite flexible in its nature.
OpenShift vs Docker
As OpenShift is PaaS (Platform as a service) which can be used over an existing cloud service, deployed on the Docker Enterprise platform, that is further deployed as CaaS (Container as a service) which further decreases the setup cost and increases the efficiency and the productivity of the existing application workflow. Both are open-source technologies that ensure scalability if used together. Though they can be used simultaneously they are different platforms and differs in various categories. Let us take a look at what aspects they differ from each other.