
Playing with OpenShift 4 locally
January 2018, Red Hat acquired CoreOS for 250 million dollars 🤩. CoreOS was one of the leading companies of Linux & Containers market with their wide offer of products: CoreOS Tectonic: container application platform based on Kubernetes. CoreOS Container Linux: lightweight Linux distribution designed to run containerized applications. CoreOS Operators Framework: an open source toolkit designed to manage Kubernetes native applications. CoreOS Quay: a container registry for building, storing, and distributing your private containers. CoreOS rkt: an application container engine developed for modern production cloud-native environments. even more and more.. Red HatOpenShift 3.x was facing many big problems especially in installations and upgrades. It was a real nightmare to install an OCP Cluster. I never heard an OCP Admin talking about upgrading OCP without discussing the problems that they faced. Personally, I worked for two customers from 2017 to 2019 that adopted OCP, and when it comes to cluster upgrades they were dedicating time and they were bringing people from Red Hat to help them do that 😂 Although, the upgrades were guaranteed by Red Hat in all technical and commercial announcements. ...