INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE — OPENSHIFT CASE STUDY
The developer's team, work is to write code and push to SCM tools like Github. We have launched a container that contains the code and the container is managed by Kubernetes.
We need a CI/CD tool like Jenkins who can take care of the Build Stage.
But don’t you think multiple teams mean a lot of time consumption in finding errors and issues in the application.
In this Agile world, we can’t take any risk. Although integration is important, that doesn’t mean we have to resolve errors every time. Launching thousands of devices and managing them becomes a huge task.
Kubernetes is so good at monitoring the containers but still, we require something new.
We want one single solution for everything. I want to push code -> tool will download code -> build image and send it to DockerHub.
I’m talking about the Openshift which is the industry demand.
The Unified solution is Openshift which is a product of red hat and it is a Management tool that manages the lifecycle of your projects.
It is a hybrid cloud. It is built on the top of Kubernetes. It has all the functionalities of Kubernetes, plus features.
Openshift Creates Cluster for the usage of different services.OpenShift connects devices present at on-premises, cloud or hybrid cloud, and many more. Openshift provides services like platform services, application services, and developer services.
In platform services, we can use CI/CD pipeline for automating the Build stage, Service mesh, Full-stack logging, and many more.
Application services we can use different languages and databases for creating applications.
In developer's services, Weekend uses platforms like developers CLI, vs code extensions, IDE plugins, and much more.
BENEFITS OF OPENSHIFT -
FASTER DEPLOYMENT -
Do you think you will be okay when your application takes weeks in deployment? The applications which took weeks for deployment now take a few minutes for deployment.
SELF-SERVICE PROVISIONING -
Are you a developer and face the issue, now which language needs to be used and you are not comfortable with the language? Developers need not learn any new languages as it supports multiple languages.
NODE CONFIGURATION -
First configuring an instance on Cloud and then writing Kubernetes script, is really time — consuming. Openshift comes up with a solution. The configuration of nodes becomes easy. In fact, scaling nodes is easy.
CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION/CONTINUOUS DELIVERY -
Openshift is one single solution for most things. As soon as the code is pushed it is changed on the production side also after testing.
USE — CASES
INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE -
Website — https://intermountainhealthcare.org/
LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/company/intermountain-healthcare/
Each and every country is affected by the covid-19 virus. This virus has not only affected a single country but it is affecting the whole world, each country is trying to overcome this pandemic.
Intermountain Healthcare is located in Salt Lake City, Utah(United States).
This is a not-for-profit health system where doctors treat patients in their best way. They have a no-harm patient policy in terms of physical, mental, emotional, or financial ways.
With the increasing size of the group, they decided to have faster IT support and they started using Openshift. The Deployment of application time decreased and services increased.
“The community sees Intermountain as a partner, someone they rely on for the best healthcare at an appropriate cost,” said Bret Lawson, director of infrastructure and operations at Intermountain Healthcare
Intermountain Healthcare found that the cost of IT hardware and software was reduced when they used the Redhat Product. And so for patients, the costs were reduced too.
Intermountain Healthcare said that the 2–3 weeks deployment time was converted to 20 mins.
“Tools like Ansible Automation, CloudForms, and OpenShift help operations be more helpful to getting software delivered,” said Richins.
CONCLUSION
Automation is key for Growth.
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