Use Case of OpenShift

OpenShift is RedHat’s open-source, cloud-enabled Platform as a Service offering. It helps enterprises shift their traditional application infrastructure and platform from physical, virtual mediums to the cloud environment. It is convenient in developing cloud-enabled services at a faster rate. Hence, there are numerous OpenShift use cases that benefit the IT industry and all other industries such as automobiles, telecom, fashion designing, manufacturing, etc.

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OpenShift Benefits

OpenShift offers a common platform for companies and organizations to host applications on the cloud, independent of operating systems. It offers a user-friendly interface and seamless functionalities. Let’s discuss the benefits of OpenShift.

• OpenShift offers a self-service platform for developers to develop and deploy applications on-demand with just a few clicks. Applications developed in OpenShift are packaged up in a container that makes applications extraordinarily portable and lightweight.
• OpenShift has made it possible to work together with Dev and Ops without interfering with their individual concerns.
• It brings consensus to IT organizations. It means organizations can deliver applications in the market with proper strategies while maintaining the scalability and stability of the app.
• Enterprises always require those vendors who can provide the entire service stack. Therefore OpenShift provides Platform as a Service clubbed with Infrastructure as a Service and middleware services for better agility and interoperability.
• It also offers Rest API support, Built-in Database services, IDE Integration, remote debugging of applications etc.
• OpenShift makes applications hyper scalable because of the containers.

Also Check: Our blog post on Azure Openshift.

OpenShift Use Cases (Case Studies)

Many organizations are opting OpenShift and making use of it to the best of their abilities. So let’s have a quick look at OpenShift Use Cases as per industrial requirements.

Cisco uses OpenShift

To keep up with customer demand, Cisco, a leading provider of network solutions, needs to rapidly implement new IT products and solutions. The challenge is keeping your IT team engaged and productive to drive innovation. With help from Red Hat, Cisco developed its Lightweight Application Environment (LAE), which runs on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, a Platform as a service (PaaS) technology formerly known as Red Hat’s OpenShift Enterprise.

• Challenge faced by Cisco: Cisco’s ability to quickly offer innovative IT products and solutions to clients is critical to its success. Delays can cost a firm money. Cisco needed to keep its 1,000+ developers actively engaged in creating and implementing apps to encourage speed to market and boost satisfaction while avoiding high employee turnover, low productivity, and delayed reaction times.
• How did they tackle this: Cisco entrusted Red Hat with the design and development of its LAE, a PaaS deployment that supports hundreds of apps that power a wide range of business operations. Developers can use the IT resources they need to develop apps through a self-service platform, which eliminates manual provisioning.
• Result: Project provisioning used to take up to three months for Cisco developers. Now, the developers simply press a button, and the service is supplied in a matter of… minutes. Customers will benefit from the speedier delivery of innovative products and services as a result of increased productivity. The approach relieves pressure on limited IT resources and allows developers to devote more time to creative projects.

Porsche Informatik Speeds up Development with RedHat OpenShift

Porsche Informatik is an IT service provider for Volkswagen Automotive group that develops applications to sustain itself in the fast-paced global market. They started using OpenShift technology to create a private cloud container environment. Now developers in Porsche Informatik can use self-service capabilities and team up with other organization members to work effectively.

Challenge faced by Porsche: Porsche had a significant challenge of speeding up application development.

Solution Implemented: Porsche Informatik chose Red Hat OpenShift for its application infrastructure. Since 2015, the firm has used Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and in 2017, it established a private cloud environment with a data center provider and Red Hat partner eww ITandTEL.

Benefits Porsche got from OpenShift:

• With self-service provisioning, development times were reduced from 5–6 weeks to hours.
• Porsche Informatik was able to integrate its IT departments by adopting a more agile, collaborative DevOps approach, which was enabled by Red Hat OpenShift. Developers, architects, infrastructure specialists, and platform teams can now collaborate more effectively to create and upgrade innovative applications and services in a way that eliminates repetitive, inefficient work and capitalizes on their key strengths.
• To stay ahead of the competition, they gained backing for the early adoption of Kubernetes and container technology.
• Porsche Informatik is also exploring how the latest version, Red Hat OpenShift 4, will bring new features to continue its contemporary application development journey after successfully implementing Red Hat OpenShift.

Indian Insurance Companies are using OpenShift to Speed up Digital Businesses

India has so many insurance companies up and running. Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance is one of the leading companies in the insurance sector. It needed to take full benefits and credits out of the country’s growing market. Hence, to respond quickly to the rising opportunities and speed up market time, this insurance company created a reliable microservices environment using RedHat OpenShift. Using this, the company has optimized development and delivery time and have effectively eliminated downtime.

Benefits

• New services and features have a faster time to market.
• API management and role-based access improve application security.
• In a hybrid IT environment, there was no downtime.

Digital Transformation of Lenovo using OpenShift

Lenovo is a multinational company that manufactures gadgets. Due to the fast-paced technology thrived environment, Lenovo wanted to transform digitally to meet the business requirements and grow exponentially. They needed cloud capabilities to develop efficient applications. Then they shifted to the RedHat OpenShift platform as a service solution that improved their productivity via automation and decreased system deployment time.

• Challenges faced by Lenovo: Lenovo desired a rapid digital transformation in order to strengthen its capabilities and respond to business demands more quickly. This transformation, on the other hand, necessitated frequent updates and changes to the company’s whole IT environment, and certain outdated systems were unable to keep up. As a result, the team encountered significant hurdles in producing and delivering materials in a timely manner.
• The solution implemented by Lenovo: Lenovo chose a PaaS solution to integrate cloud computing in order to suit its needs. Lenovo’s Zhenyu Yao, executive director of Integrated Technology Service, said, “We chose PaaS as the preferred solution to gain efficient and agile support for our business team.” Lenovo picked the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as its PaaS solution, based on its strong partnership with Red Hat.
• Results: It enhanced the overall automation and DevOps collaboration for better productivity. Instead of a week, IT personnel may now develop a new IT infrastructure in minutes.

BMW Opted OpenShift

BMW has been leading the market with its automotive engineering for more than a century. Digital Service Powering functionalities of BMW automobiles were showcased at RedHat Summit. ConnectedDrive system functionalities have been in the market for 20 years, but it requires a more advanced technology-driven delivery system to deliver applications. Therefore in the year 2016, BMW started migrating its full application suite to OpenShift. Now BMW supports more than 1000 web applications for their customers, automobiles, production and sales process etc. This case study states the OpenShift use cases.

• Challenge: BMW wanted to gain high-performance big data capabilities and a data-driven platform.
• Solution Implemented: DXC Technology was chosen by the BMW Group to develop a solution for its data and performance concerns. DXC Technology used DXC Robotic Drive, a managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) based on Red Hat OpenShift and other Red Hat technology, to build a Kubernetes-based platform with extensive automation capabilities. With scalable machine learning and big data processing capabilities, this technology aids the BMW Group in developing faster.
• Result: The BMW Group dramatically cut development time and increased developer productivity by automating repeated operations and giving self-service capabilities. Data gathering, processing, and storage capabilities are also massively scalable on the platform. It has over 230 PB of usable storage and enough processing capacity to simulate 240 million kilometres of test data.

source: Sandeep Kumar/k21 academy