Word of the Day: OpenShift

Word of the Day Daily updates on the latest technology terms |May 9, 2017

OpenShift OpenShift is RedHat's cloud development Platform as a Service (PaaS). The free and open source cloud-based platform allows developers to create, test and run their applications and deploy them to the cloud. OpenShift provides support for Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, and Java and is extensible so that users can add support for other languages. Resources allocated for applications can be automatically or manually scaled so that as demand increases there is no degradation of performance. OpenShift provides portability through the DeltaCloud API so customers can migrate deployments to other cloud computing vendor environments. Here's how Red Hat describes the process of creating an application through AutoShift: Create an "Application" in OpenShift (With the command-line or via their IDE) Code the application (in Vi, TextMate, Eclipse, Visual Studio, or whatever) Push the application code to OpenShift (again, with the command-line or from their IDE) Quote of the Day "OpenShift spans a broad swath of new technologies, such as containers, software-defined storage and software-defined networks, but also requires skills in administering VMs and server hardware in on-premises deployments." - Beth Pariseau   Trending Terms Red Hat PaaS open source cloud computing Cloud Foundry   Learning Center Signs point to cloud future at Red Hat Summit 2017 At Red Hat Summit 2017, the open source software company made overtures toward cloud computing. Delving into the container-based Red Hat PaaS, OpenShift The Red Hat PaaS, OpenShift, combines Docker and Kubernetes features to provide app dev teams container management and orchestration capabilities. IT pros strive to embrace OpenShift container portability advances Red Hat and Amazon Web Services focus on container portability in OpenShift collaboration, signaling a multicloud and hybrid cloud roadmap. Red Hat OpenShift opens doors for container-based mobile app dev Red Hat OpenShift and AWS announced a new collaboration at the Red Hat Summit that could make mobile app deployment easier for developers. Create a PaaS model for application portability A PaaS model offers operational simplicity, but can present lock-in risks. Evaluate these four options to make your PaaS environment portable. Writing for Business Open source describes any software whose source code is in the public domain or that is copyrighted and distributed under an ______________. a. open source license b. open-source license Answer       Stay In Touch For feedback about any of our definitions or to suggest a new definition, please contact me at: mrouse@techtarget.com   Visit the Word of the Day Archives and catch up on what you've missed!   FOLLOW US About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from Whatis.com, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget, Whatis, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2016 TechTarget. All rights reserved.