Cloud Happiness - OpenShift Container Platform install on Windows, why wait?

Get OpenShift Container Platform v3.4 today!

There is no easier way to install your very own Cloud than with OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).

Last week you learned how to go from no Cloud to fully Cloud enabled with a container based application development platform in just over two minutes.

This week you can add Windows to the platforms that can be used to install this easy, 2 minute OpenShift Container Platform with fully enabled xPaaS capabilities!

If you have been following my journey through the application development phases of storytelling, you will have seen that I was an early fan of Cloud based solutions like OpenShift. This was a way to take your application development from your local resources and move them onto a remote set of resources, while continuing to work locally as you always have.

As of today I have updated  the OpenShift Container Platform Install Demo to deliver you version 3.4 to your Windows platform. It is so simple, I believe that anyone can set this up in just over two minutes. Let's take a look, as it it only a three step process:

Install in 3 simple steps...

1. Download and unzip.
2. Run 'init.sh' or 'init.bat' file, then sit back. (Note: 'init.bat' must be run with Administrative privileges.)
3. Follow displayed instructions to log in to your brand new OpenShift Container Platform!

You need to download and unzip the project, then run the installation script, sit back until you see the output at the end showing you where to log in to your brand new OpenShift Container Platform.

Figure 1. Final installation details given.

It will check if you have the required tools installed, if not you will get a pointer to where you need to download these requirements. This means you don't have to worry about finding out what you need, just run the installation and it will tell you where to get anything that is missing.

Also note, that if you have run this installation before, it's setup to always give you a clean running installation by fixing anything that is left running or blocking an installation. Not intervention needed by you. I then make sure your OCP has the latest greatest JBoss middleware streams loaded and update the RHEL 7 streams.

Now you are almost ready, just need to show you how to log in.

The final console output will give you the address that was dynamically created (in my case it shows https://192.168.99.100:8443), as shown in figure 1. You just need to paste it into your browser and you can log in with any of the given users.

Figure 2. Fill in a new project form as desired.

As I have updated the image streams, it will take some time for them to be pulled into your OCP and appear in your lists of available platforms. Log in with admin user and you will see that you need to create a project, just click on the New Project button.

You can fill in the form shown in figure 2 any way you like, but I chose to line it up as the project that will soon host all my Red Hat Cloud demo projects.

Once you submit that form, you are presented with an overview of the product templates for your projects that I installed above (remember, it might take a few minutes for them all to appear, so take a sip of coffee now as it is your only chance in this process).

You can now start using the catalog containing the JBoss middleware product templates to develop applications on the OCP Cloud.

This concludes the installation of OCP and you are now ready to start containerized application development. I assume you can find more information online if you are interested in getting started with the basics of container development on OCP, so I won't go into that here.

If you are looking for some deeper examples of running JBoss middleware on OCP then check out the examples collection at Red Hat Demo Central.

Here's wishing you many happy days of containerized application development in the Cloud!