Introducing OpenShift Commons

We're proud to announce OpenShift Commons, a community for connecting OpenShift’s diverse groups of customers, contributors, operators, cloud providers and partners directly with each other and with the best of breed open source technology initiatives incorporated in OpenShift.

InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award

OpenShift was the only PaaS offering – and one of the only open source offerings – to receive the award, emerging as the top PaaS offering in InfoWorld’s testing. Check out our awards page to see past awards.

Crowd-Sourcing the OpenShift Developer Portal

The OpenShift Developer Portal is now open for feedback and new content requests via GitHub Issues. Please don’t hesitate to let us know if there’s something that should be added or changed.

Static IPs for Your OpenShift Apps Now Available

Now available in the OpenShift Marketplace – Statica: Enterprise Static IP Addresses. With Statica you can route outbound traffic from your OpenShift application via a Static IP and access IP protected resources wherever your app is running.

Blog Highlights

Sharing a Database Across Applications

This article talks about multiple applications sharing a database running on OpenShift with an example that you can follow step-by-step using a MySQL database cartridge as an example.

How to Run Memcached on OpenShift Enterprise

This post explains how to easily configure and use the Memcached community cartridge on OpenShift Enterprise 2.2. Memcached is already available as an add-on cartridge for use on OpenShift Online.

Connecting to an External Oracle Database

Applications running on OpenShift can connect to external databases just like how they connect to database cartridges running on a gear. A common question that people ask is how can an application connect to an existing Oracle database that is running in their datacenter.

Events

DevNexus

Atlanta, GA

March 10-12

Look for the OpenShift team in the Red Hat booth at DevNexus in Atlanta. Steve Pousty will be there giving a talk on Microservices.

Webinar: PaaS and iPaaS: How to unlock information efficiently

9:00 AM ET, 2:00 PM ET

March 24

In this webinar, learn how integrating parts of the business beyond the datacenter and into the cloud is key to providing a holistic solution and increases value to the business. Register now.