Chapter 2. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is a Kubernetes-based platform for developing and running containerized applications. It is designed to enable applications and the data centers that support them to expand from just a few systems and applications to thousands of systems that serve millions of clients.

OpenShift supports two workflows for building container images for applications: the source and the binary workflows. Both workflows are based on the source-to-image (S2I) feature and both workflows rely on S2I builds using the source workflow. The key difference is that the source workflow generates deployable artifacts of your application inside OpenShift, while the binary workflow generates these binary artifacts outside of OpenShift. Both of them build the application container image inside OpenShift. The binary workflow provides an application binary as the source for an OpenShift S2I build that generates a container image.