Getting Started with OpenShift: A Guide for Impatient Beginners

Steve Pousty · Katie Miller

May 2014 · "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

About this ebook

Intrigued by the possibilities of developing web applications in the cloud? With this concise book, you get a quick hands-on introduction to OpenShift, the open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering from Red Hat. You’ll learn the steps necessary to build, deploy, and host a complete real-world application on OpenShift, without having to read long, detailed explanations of the technologies involved.

Though the book uses Python, application examples in other languages are available on GitHub. If you can build web applications, use a command line, and program in Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, or Perl, you’re ready to get started.

• Dive in and create your first example application with OpenShift
• Modify the example with your own code and hot-deploy the changes
• Add components such as a database, task scheduling, and monitoring
• Use external libraries and dependencies in your application
• Delve into networking, persistent storage, and backup options
• Explore ways to adapt your team processes to use OpenShift
• Learn OpenShift terms, technologies, and commands
• Get a list of resources to learn more about OpenShift and PaaS

About the author

Steve is a Dad, Son, Partner, and PaaS Dust Spreader (aka developer evangelist) with OpenShift. He goes around and shows off all the great work the OpenShift engineers do. He can teach you about PaaS with Java, Python, PostgreSQL MongoDB, and some JavaScript. He has deep subject area expertise in GIS/Spatial, Statistics, and Ecology. He has spoken at over 50 conferences and done over 30 workshops including Monktoberfest, MongoNY, JavaOne, FOSS4G, CTIA, AjaxWorld, GeoWeb, Where2.0, and OSCON. Before OpenShift, Steve was a developer evangelist for LinkedIn, deCarta, and ESRI. Steve has a Ph.D. in Ecology from University of Connecticut. He likes building interesting applications and helping developers create great solutions.

Katie Miller, also known as codemiller, works as an OpenShift Developer Advocate at Red Hat. Katie is a polyglot programmer with a penchant for Haskell. The functional programming enthusiast co-founded the Lambda Ladies online community and co-organizes the Brisbane Functional Programming Group. Katie is a familiar face at an array of Meetup groups spanning a variety of programming language communities, including Java, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby. The former newspaper journalist has presented at conferences and Meetups across Australia and New Zealand and as far afield as Budapest, Hungary. Katie is passionate about coding, open source, software quality, languages of all kinds, and encouraging more girls and women to pursue careers in technology.