Chapter 11. Summary
Now, sadly, it is time to wrap up the book. We hope it has been as much fun to read as it was to write. Most importantly, we hope our book fulfilled its purpose: to get you up and running comfortably with OpenShift as fast as possible.
What We Covered
To quickly recap, we covered:
- Some basic terminology explaining the OpenShift components
- How to create an application on OpenShift
- How to modify the template application to use your own code
- How to add other functionality to your application, such as a database or Cron job
- How to use the command line with your application to interact with the database
- How to use environment variables to add other functionality to your application
- How to work with your log files and create new ones if needed
- How to add external library dependencies to your application
- How to add WebSocket functionality to your application
- What networking options are available and what external ports you can use
- Where you can write to disk in your OpenShift application
- How to manage your disk space
- How to back up your database
- How to back up your entire application
- How to use OpenShift to work on a team project
That is a lot of territory covered in a relatively short number of pages. We also used a Python application to illustrate the pattern of development on OpenShift.
Other Areas to Explore
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