Case Study On OpenShift

Hello Connections, in this blog i am gonna discuss about openshift as a technology and its use cases.

what is OpenShift ?

OpenShift is a cloud development Platform as a Service (PaaS) developed by Red Hat. It is an open source development platform, which enables the developers to develop and deploy their applications on cloud infrastructure. It is very helpful in developing cloud-enabled services. Red Hat OpenShift. Container Platform enables organizations to develop, deploy, and manage existing, container-based applications across their on-premises and cloud environments. By implementing Red Hat OpenShift, organizations gain access to proven and powerful open source technologies, empowering developers to quickly and easily create portable applications on-demand, while leveraging the tools and languages they were using before.

Benefits of OpenShift:

• Innovate and go to market faster: OpenShift enables your development team to focus on what they do best. Now, developers are free from spending excessive time managing and deploying containers. This helps them to speed up the development process and get the product faster in the market. Orchestrating container usage via the OpenShift platform provides a marked efficiency advantage to chipmakers who utilize containers for the next-generation virtualization benefits they offer. Deploying an increased number of apps on existing system resources enables a chipmaker to provide its developers with an expanded toolset to increase their ability to innovate.
• Accelerate application development: Deploying and managing containers at a scale is a complicated process. It cut down the time of managing the container. This improves the companies productivity and speeds up application development.
• Enterprise-grade, container-based platform with no vendor lock: Consider the case of a company with worldwide manufacturing facilities that implement a container platform tool. If the company shifts its production approach to a process that requires it to change to a new operating system — one that isn’t supported by its containerization platform — the company will face the expensive task of redoing its containerization orchestration on another platform. With a vendor-agnostic open-source platform, users can migrate their container processes to the new operating system quickly — while avoiding the extensive costs often involved in migrating from a proprietary operating framework.
• Self-service provisioning: This self-service provisioning helps improve developer productivity by allowing your development team to work with the tools they are most comfortable using — speeding up the development process by enabling faster creation and deployment of applications. At the same time, OpenShift allows your operations staff to retain control over the environment as a whole.

.Red Hat OpenShift Features

• Built-in support for Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, and Java (the standard in today’s Enterprise)
• OpenShift is extensible with a customizable cartridge functionality that allows developers to add any other language they wish. We’ve seen everything from Clojure to Cobol running on OpenShift
• OpenShift supports frameworks ranging from Spring, to Rails, to Play
• Autoscaling- OpenShift can scale your application by adding additional instances of your application and enabling clustering. Alternatively, you can manually scale the amount of resources with which your application is deployed when needed
• OpenShift by Red Hat is built on open-source technologies (Red Hat Enterprise Linux- RHEL)
• One Click Deployment- Deploying to the OpenShift platform is as easy a clicking a button or entering a “Git push” command.

Companies using Red Hat OpenShift

93 companies use Red Hat OpenShift in their tech stacks, including Accenture, ViaVarejoRuntastic and many more.

1. SABRE

Travel technology giant Sabre is leveraging the OpenShift Container Platform as the foundation of its Next Generation Platform initiative. The new platform will enable the company to deliver more sophisticated, modern technology solutions for its various clients across all verticals within the travel and hospitality industry, including airlines, hospitality, and global businesses with high travel volumes.

Sabre clients will benefit by enjoying enhanced stability, world-class security, accelerated speed to market and the development of new capabilities such as new distribution capability (NDC)-enabled solutions. NDC is an International Air Travel Association (IATA) travel program that will eventually allow airlines to present fares as well as bundled ancillary products like upgrades, bag fees, Wi-Fi, food/beverage and other services based on traveler preferences, corporate policy and negotiated rates. This program will make it easier for travelers to compare flights and prices for a more personalized traveler experience. So far, leveraging OpenShift has helped Sabre expand their global footprint to two new CoreConnect Hubs in Chicago and Dallas as of 2018, plus launch additional solutions to improve their transaction processing capabilities.

2. BMW

As a world leader in automotive engineering for over a hundred years, BMW continues to innovate both their production processes and their end-products. Dr. Alexander Lenk, Lead Architect of Connected Vehicle, Digital Backend, Big Data, and blockchain for the BMW group explains that digital services are important for the company and its customers. Therefore, these digital services will be added to new cars as well as its existing fleet.

While the ConnectedDrive system has been in service for 20 years, it required a more advanced delivery system to deliver these applications and updates to over 12 million vehicles and support close to a billion weekly IT service requests.

In 2016, BMW began migrating their full application suite to OpenShift and support over 1,000 web-based apps for not only customers and vehicles, but also for factories, dealerships, and the full production and sales process.

3. FORD

Ford Motor Company seeks to provide mobility solutions at accessible prices to its customers, including dealerships and parts distributors who sell to a variety of retail and commercial consumers. To speed delivery and simplify maintenance, the company sought to create a container-based application platform to modernize its legacy stateful applications and optimize its hardware use. With this platform, based on Red Hat OpenShift and supported by Red Hat and Sysdig technology, Ford has improved developer productivity, enhanced its security and compliance approach, and optimized its hardware use to improve operating costs. Now, the company can focus on exploring new ways to innovate, from big data to machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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