第 4 章 Understanding OpenShift Container Platform development
To fully leverage the capability of containers when developing and running enterprise-quality applications, ensure your environment is supported by tools that allow containers to be:
- Created as discrete microservices that can be connected to other containerized, and non-containerized, services. For example, you might want to join your application with a database or attach a monitoring application to it.
- Resilient, so if a server crashes or needs to go down for maintenance or to be decommissioned, containers can start on another machine.
- Automated to pick up code changes automatically and then start and deploy new versions of themselves.
- Scaled up, or replicated, to have more instances serving clients as demand increases and then spun down to fewer instances as demand declines.
- Run in different ways, depending on the type of application. For example, one application might run once a month to produce a report and then exit. Another application might need to run constantly and be highly available to clients.
- Managed so you can watch the state of your application and react when something goes wrong.
Containers’ widespread acceptance, and the resulting requirements for tools and methods to make them enterprise-ready, resulted in many options for them.
The rest of this section explains options for assets you can create when you build and deploy containerized Kubernetes applications in OpenShift Container Platform. It also describes which approaches you might use for different kinds of applications and development requirements.
4.1. About developing containerized applications
You can approach application development with containers in many ways, and different approaches might be more appropriate for different situations. To illustrate some of this variety, the series of approaches that is presented starts with developing a single container and ultimately deploys that container as a mission-critical application for a large enterprise. These approaches show different tools, formats, and methods that you can employ with containerized application development. This topic describes:
- Building a simple container and storing it in a registry
- Creating a Kubernetes manifest and saving it to a Git repository
- Making an Operator to share your application with others
