Introduction

In this hands-on lab you will learn how to use the OpenShift Container Platform on IBM Cloud. The goal of OpenShift is to provide a great experience for both Developers and System Administrators to develop, deploy, and run containerized applications.

You will familiarize yourself with OpenShift, deploy a micro-service Node.js application to OpenShift, scale the application, connect to a Cloudant DBaaS, check logs and monitor with Sysdig.

Architecture

1. A developer deploy a Node.js micro service application from the OpenShift Console.
2. Building the application produces a Docker container image.
3. The image is pushed to a project in OpenShift cluster.
4. The application is deployed to a OpenShift cluster.
5. Users access the application.
6. A developer connects the application to a Cloudant database with IBM Cloud Operator.
7. An Ops monitors the app with Cloud Logs and Cloud Monitoring.

Cloud Services used

This tutorial uses the following IBM Cloud Services:

• Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
• IBM Cloud Logs
• IBM Cloud Monitoring

Command Lines

This diagram gives you an overview of the services and main command lines you will be using during the lab.

Access the tutorial

The lab is accessible at this URL https://ibm-cloud.github.io/openshift4-lab/