Introduction to Minishift

Red Hat® OpenShift® is supported Kubernetes for cloud-native applications with enterprise security. Although Kubernetes has great scalability, workload portability and intuitive abstractions which allows you to separate business and developer concerns, it is still quite a concern to install, deploy and keep clusters operational.

Luckily for us developers, there is Minishift - a tool stack we can use locally on our dev machines and develop and test applications for cloud deployment to test/production Red Hat® OpenShift® environments.

In this workshop, we will run through a series of scenarios for creating, deploying and managing micro-services within an OpenShift single-node cluster using Minishift.

Pre-requisites:
Before engaging in any of the labs, make sure you have correctly installed Minishift - https://docs.okd.io/latest/minishift/getting-started/installing.html

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Please bring your Meetup RSVP Confirmation & ID to check-in

Agenda:

630pm - doors open, check-in, and get some food
645pm - round-robin introductions & get to know each other
7-830pm - presentation
830-845pm - Q&A
9pm - venue closes

About Grant

Grant Steinfeld (@gsteinfeld) is the IBM Developer Advocate for Blockchain, Java, and NodeJS. Grant is an accomplished and innovative senior software architect and engineer with a reputation for delivering client-focused solutions. He is a problem solver and team mentor with the ability to work with and manage development teams. He is able to interface with senior management and product teams in order to translate business requirements and challenges into project plans and solutions.