OpenShift on IBM Cloud is an extension of the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, where IBM manages OpenShift Container Platform for you.

With OpenShift deployes on IBM Cloud, developers have a fast and secure way to containerize and deploy enterprise workloads in Kubernetes clusters. This session walks through deploying a Java microservice in OpenShift on IBM Cloud. It can often be a challenge to figure out the right place to start with microservice deployments — especially with porting legacy code.

In this briefing, you will learn:

  • how to create your own OpenShift cluster on the IBM Cloud, how to use the oc CLI (command line interface)
  • how to use the OpenShift Web Console to deploy applications.
  • distributed logging with LogDNA
  • different modes of deploying to OpenShift including from a previously existing image, from a Git repository, and from Source Code using Source-to-Image (S2I).

About the Presenter:  Nigel is a Developer Advocate for IBM Cloud based in New York City.  You can follow him on GitHub at the handle @pnbrown


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