Case Study on OpenShift

3 min readSep 10, 2022

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. This tutorial will help you understand OpenShift and how it can be used in the existing infrastructure. All the examples and code snippets used in this tutorial are tested and working code, which can be simply used in any OpenShift setup by changing the current defined names and variables.

OpenShift is a cloud-enabled application Platform as a Service (PaaS). It’s an open source technology which helps organizations move their traditional application infrastructure and platform from physical, virtual mediums to the cloud.

OpenShift supports a very large variety of applications, which can be easily developed and deployed on OpenShift cloud platform. OpenShift basically supports three kinds of platforms for the developers and users.

Features of OpenShift

There are multiple features supported by OpenShift. Few of them are −

Multiple Language Support
Multiple Database Support
Extensible Cartridge System
Source Code Version Management
One-Click Deployment
Multi Environment Support
Standardized Developers’ workflow
Dependency and Build Management
Automatic Application Scaling
Responsive Web Console
Rich Command-line Toolset
Remote SSH Login to Applications
Rest API Support
Self-service On Demand Application Stack
Built-in Database Services
Continuous Integration and Release Management
IDE Integration
Remote Debugging of Applications

Case Study on Jenkins-

1. Bajaj Allianz

India has so many insurance companies up and running. Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance is one of the leading companies in the insurance sector. It needed to take full benefits and credits out of the country’s growing market. Hence, to respond quickly to the rising opportunities and speed up market time, this insurance company created a reliable microservices environment using RedHat OpenShift. Using this, the company has optimized development and delivery time and have effectively eliminated downtime.

Benefits-

New services and features have a faster time to market.
API management and role-based access improve application security.
In a hybrid IT environment, there was no downtime.

2. Lenovo

Lenovo is a multinational company that manufactures gadgets. Due to the fast-paced technology thrived environment, Lenovo wanted to transform digitally to meet the business requirements and grow exponentially. They needed cloud capabilities to develop efficient applications. Then they shifted to the RedHat OpenShift platform as a service solution that improved their productivity via automation and decreased system deployment time.

Challenges:

Lenovo desired a rapid digital transformation in order to strengthen its capabilities and respond to business demands more quickly. This transformation, on the other hand, necessitated frequent updates and changes to the company’s whole IT environment, and certain outdated systems were unable to keep up. As a result, the team encountered significant hurdles in producing and delivering materials in a timely manner.

Solution:

Lenovo chose a PaaS solution to integrate cloud computing in order to suit its needs. Lenovo’s Zhenyu Yao, executive director of Integrated Technology Service, said, “We chose PaaS as the preferred solution to gain efficient and agile support for our business team.” Lenovo picked the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as its PaaS solution, based on its strong partnership with Red Hat.

Results:

It enhanced the overall automation and DevOps collaboration for better productivity. Instead of a week, IT personnel may now develop a new IT infrastructure in minutes.