In my first post, Learning Red Hat OpenShift, I covered why I picked OpenShift and what the platform promises. This post goes one level deeper: what is actually inside an OpenShift cluster, how the pieces talk to each other, and where the day-to-day tooling sits. I am using the architecture diagram below as the map for the article. Where a label on it has aged compared to Red Hat's current OpenShift Container Platform 4.x documentation (4.22 at the time of writing), I flag th

OpenShift is Red Hat's enterprise application platform for building, deploying and managing containerized applications, with Kubernetes at its core. Kubernetes on its own handles container orchestration; OpenShift adds what a production platform needs around it: a web console, integrated builds and CI/CD, monitoring and logging, security, and OperatorHub for installing and managing add-ons. It runs consistently across data centers, public clouds and the edge, either self-mana