Foreword

Containers are becoming the primary way applications are built and deployed. They’re one of those rare technologies that comes along and not only cuts operating costs, but also increases productivity. Containers also provide the flexibility to keep organizations from getting locked into any one technology. Our vision at Red Hat is to become a default choice for organizations looking for a partner to help them build any applications and deploy them in any environment.

Enter Red Hat OpenShift: Red Hat’s answer to bringing together the best and most popular projects and developer services to emerge around containers—such as Kubernetes and Ansible—in a single, scalable, rock-solid container platform combined with all the services developers need.

In the pages that follow, you’ll find something unique: the first holistic view of OpenShift in print. OpenShift in Action, written by two of Red Hat’s top contributors, is the first book that takes a soup-to-nuts approach in combining both the developer and operator perspectives and covering everything from deployment to the top of the application stack.