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- About
- What's New?
- Getting Started
- Architecture
- Container Security Guide
- Installation and Configuration
- Overview
- Installing a Cluster
- Setting up the Registry
- Setting up a Router
- Upgrading a Cluster
- Master and Node Configuration
- Adding Hosts to an Existing Cluster
- Loading the Default Image Streams and Templates
- Configuring Custom Certificates
- Redeploying Certificates
- Configuring Authentication and User Agent
- Syncing Groups With LDAP
- Configuring LDAP failover
- Configuring the SDN
- Configuring Nuage SDN
- Configuring for AWS
- Configuring for OpenStack
- Configuring for GCE
- Configuring for Azure
- Configuring for VMWare vSphere
- Configuring Persistent Storage
- Overview
- Using NFS
- Using GlusterFS
- Using OpenStack Cinder
- Using Ceph RBD
- Using AWS Elastic Block Store
- Using GCE Persistent Disk
- Using iSCSI
- Using Fibre Channel
- Using Azure Disk
- Using Azure File
- Using FlexVolume
- Using VMware vSphere volumes for persistent storage
- Dynamic Provisioning and Creating Storage Classes
- Volume Security
- Selector-Label Volume Binding
- Enabling Controller-managed Attachment and Detachment
- Persistent Storage Examples
- Overview
- Sharing an NFS PV Across Two Pods
- Using Ceph RBD for persistent storage
- Using Ceph RBD for dynamic provisioning
- Complete Example Using GlusterFS
- Dynamic Provisioning Example Using Containerized GlusterFS
- Dynamic Provisioning Example Using Dedicated GlusterFS
- Containerized Heketi for Managing Dedicated GlusterFS
- Mounting Volumes To Privileged Pods
- Backing Docker Registry with GlusterFS Storage
- Binding Persistent Volumes by Label
- Using StorageClasses for Dynamic Provisioning
- Using StorageClasses for Existing Legacy Storage
- Configuring Azure Blob Storage for Integrated Docker Registry
- Working with HTTP Proxies
- Configuring Global Build Defaults and Overrides
- Configuring Pipeline Execution
- Configuring Route Timeouts
- Configuring Native Container Routing
- Routing from Edge Load Balancers
- Aggregating Container Logs
- Aggregate Logging Sizing Guidelines
- Enabling Cluster Metrics
- Customizing the Web Console
- Deploying External Persistent Volume Provisioners
- Cluster Administration
- Overview
- Managing Nodes
- Managing Users
- Managing Projects
- Managing Pods
- Managing Networking
- Configuring Service Accounts
- Managing Authorization Policies
- Image Policy
- Image Signatures
- Scoped Tokens
- Monitoring Images
- Managing Security Context Constraints
- Scheduling
- Setting Quotas
- Setting Multi-Project Quotas
- Setting Limit Ranges
- Pruning Objects
- Garbage Collection
- Allocating Node Resources
- Opaque Integer Resources
- Overcommitting
- Assigning Unique External IPs for Ingress Traffic
- Out of Resource Handling
- Monitoring and Debugging Routers
- High Availability
- IPtables
- Securing Builds by Strategy
- Restricting Application Capabilities Using Seccomp
- Sysctls
- Encrypting Data at Datastore Layer
- Encrypting Hosts with IPsec
- Building Dependency Trees
- Backup and Restore
- Troubleshooting Networking
- Diagnostics Tool
- Idling Applications
- Analyzing Cluster Capacity
- Scaling and Performance Guide
- CLI Reference
- Developer Guide
- Overview
- Application Life Cycle Management
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Projects
- Migrating Applications
- Tutorials
- Builds
- Deployments
- Templates
- Opening a Remote Shell to Containers
- Service Accounts
- Managing Images
- Quotas and Limit Ranges
- Injecting Information into Pods Using Pod Presets
- Getting Traffic into a Cluster
- Routes
- Integrating External Services
- Secrets
- ConfigMaps
- Downward API
- Projected Volumes
- Using Daemonsets
- Pod Autoscaling
- Managing Volumes
- Using Persistent Volumes
- Executing Remote Commands
- Copying Files
- Port Forwarding
- Shared Memory
- Application Health
- Events
- Managing Environment Variables
- Jobs
- Cron Jobs
- Create from URL
- Creating Images
- Using Images
- REST API Reference
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Overview
Introduction
OKD brings together Docker and Kubernetes, and provides an API to manage these services. OKD allows you to create and manage containers.
Why Should I Use OpenShift?
Containers are standalone processes that run within their own environment, independent of operating system and the underlying infrastructure. OpenShift helps you to develop, deploy, and manage container-based applications. It provides you with a self-service platform to create, modify, and deploy applications on demand, thus enabling faster development and release life cycles.
Think of images as cookie cutters and containers as the actual cookies.
Think of OpenShift as an operating system, images as applications that you run on them, and the containers as the actual running instances of those applications.
If you already have OKD installed, find the appropriate topic based on your role to get started:
| I am a… | Links to relevant topics |
|---|---|
Cluster administrator |
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Developer |
Step through the basics of how to Create and Build an Image Using the Web Console and create your first project and application. |