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OpenShift Container Platform is an enterprise-grade declarative state machine that has been designed to automate application workload operations based on the upstream Kubernetes project. In a Kubernetes context, “declarative” means that developers can specify, in code, a configuration for an application or workload without knowing how that application is going to be deployed. OpenShift Container Platform uses the OpenShift Kubernetes Engine, an enterprise-grade Kubernetes distribution, to provide production-oriented container and workload automation. OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 is based on Kubernetes version 1.23, which includes native support for cluster snapshots, enabling cluster backup and recovery. Built on top of Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Platform gives administrators and developers the tools that they need to deploy and manage applications and services at scale.
Note: OpenShift Container Platform is a certified Kubernetes distribution. Certification for Kubernetes distributions is provided by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.