Saturday, August 26, 2017

Getting started with OpenShift

you can try installing on your local machine: install Vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

install virtualbox https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

clone this github repo https://github.com/openshift/origin and vagrant up... good luck! On Windows the clone fails because of a filename too long issue (hello Microsoft????  ) .

Another way is to test directly on AWS:

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/06/red-hat-openshift-on-the-aws-cloud-quick-start-reference-deployment/ , go through the AWS guide "red-hat-openshift-on-the-aws-cloud" https://s3.amazonaws.com/quickstart-reference/openshift/doc/red-hat-openshift-on-the-aws-cloud.pdf and discover that this quickstart is no longer available (hello, Amazon??? Why don't you tell it on the home page?? ).

Check out on https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/ for available quickstarts - there is no Openshift quickstart! This world is a chaos, a Cambrian explosion of products which end up in a total mess, fish with wings and trunks like elephants, and survive only one generation or the space of a few months.


About AWS, I discover another document https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/reference_architectures/2017/html/deploying_openshift_container_platform_3.5_on_amazon_web_services/ but it's a bit long reading...

Anyway in the meantime I discover that the Vagrantfile VirtualBox approach has been DROPPED https://blog.openshift.com/goodbye-openshift-all-in-one-vm-hello-minishift/ in favour of Minishift (one more extinct species, whose fossil debris still clutter the digital space...)... too bad that the online book "OpenShift for developers" has not been updated, and I have wasted 3 hours of my life to discover that the "all in one" approach is dead...Grant Shipley and Graham Dumpleton, how about taking care of your creation?



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