Intrigued by the possibilities of developing webapplications in the cloud? With this concise book, you get a quick hands-onintroduction to OpenShift, the open source Platform as a Service (PaaS)offering from Red Hat. You’ll learn the steps necessary to build, deploy, andhost a complete real-world application on OpenShift, without having to readlong, detailed explanations of the technologies involved.
Though the book uses Python, application examples in other languages areavailable on GitHub. If you can build web applications, use a command line, andprogram in Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, or Perl, you’re ready to getstarted.
Dive in and create your first example application withOpenShift
Modify the example with your own code and hot-deploy thechanges
Add components such as a database, task scheduling, andmonitoring
Use external libraries and dependencies in yourapplication
Delve into networking, persistent storage, and backupoptions
Explore ways to adapt your team processes to useOpenShift
Learn OpenShift terms, technologies, and commands
Get a list of resources to learn more about OpenShift andPaaS
