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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 this 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 provides production-oriented container automation and workload automation. Based on Kubernetes version 1.27, which includes native support for cluster snapshots, OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 gives administrators and developers the tools 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.