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The Dell EMC Ready Stack for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 is designed to:
This solution includes the following components:
OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 enhances your cloud-native operations with the following capabilities:
OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 is an integrated container ecosystem providing access to tools that accelerate development and operations in an easy-to-consume platform solution. Kubernetes alone is not a complete container ecosystem. Kubernetes provides a basic container orchestration environment; however, moving containers from a development to a production Kubernetes environment requires a container registry, network integration tools, storage provisioning and management tools, logging, analytics, and visualization of trends. “Glueware” for integrating these tools and resources is required to make all the components work.
With OpenShift Container Platform 4.2, you can deploy Docker images that have been developed and built elsewhere and integrate it with high-performance database services and datastores that are available from the OpenShift Container Platform Marketplace.