Container Technologies

OpenShift Container Platform

OpenShift is an open source PaaS by Red Hat based on top of Docker containers and the Kubernetes container cluster manager for enterprise app development and deployment. https://www.openshift.com/index.html
Every organization looking to run Linux containers in production should evaluate OpenShift. Red Hat shows expertise in both Docker and Kubernetes. Combined, the extensive developer-centric workflow included in the PaaS platform cannot be ignored – Gartner

Red Hat OpenShift.io, a free, online development environment optimized for creating cloud-native, container-based applications. Enterprises compete through software innovations, so rapidly building and scaling applications is critical. OpenShift.io enables digital transformation with an end-to-end application development environment, requiring no installation and addressing all development phases.

Kubernetes is an automation framework… based on 15 years on how Google ran containers internally. Its now open source and is owned by the CNCF.
What that means is that you can set a desired state, Kubernetes will pick up on it and drive your current state toward it
So instead of manually run to a command line to see if it’s running, Kubernetes will check that for you, if it’s not, it’s smart enough to start it for you.
Frees up developers to focus on what’s important – applications

Your Linux apps will run in any Linux server or VM, regardless installed distribution, while the kernel is high enough. And that could have a fast deploy in a lot of kinds of environments
You would be able to deploy fast, on the same exact system, each time
Moving apps between development, qa and production could be mostly a change in environment variables.
Your developers will be able to test their apps in an environment very much like the one in production
You will be able to have isolated apps with far more density than having them on VMs
Selecting exactly what apps will be visible to the outside world without messing too much with firewalls

Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications.
With Compose, you use a Compose file to configure your application’s services. Then, using a single command, you create and start all the services from your configuration.

Kitematic is Docker’s visual interface for creating Docker instances on Windows and Mac

Deploy and manage containers using the tools you choose

Provided as a service, so you don’t need to setup and manage this clustering layer yourself – ECS provides it for you.
The only cost is for the EC2 servers on which your containers eventually run.)