As the name suggests, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a software solution capable of providing platforms on demand. Those platforms can be any platform enable to expose services, such as database platform, Java platform, Java EE platform, .NET platform, Node.js platform, and much more.

Organizations having a PaaS can easily and quickly provide for their needs and business platform to run their application, processes, and manage everything from one single point.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• An introduction to OpenShift
• OKD (The Origin Community Distribution of Kubernetes)
• OKD installation
• Templates
• Networking
• Monitoring