OpenShift and Industry
What is OpenShift?
OpenShift is a family of containerization software products developed by Red Hat. Its flagship product is the OpenShift Container Platform — a hybrid cloud platform as a service built around Linux containers orchestrated and managed by Kubernetes on a foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Benefits of using OpenShift
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.
BMW using 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.
