Source, binaries, images, and containers

Edit online

RHOCP helps you setup a consistent build and deployment pipeline. It facilitates the collaboration of involved teams and establishes an agile DevOps process in your organization. The underlying artifacts include the source code, as well as the app binaries, which get turned into deployable container images. The RHOCP runtime deploys the images and the artifacts around it.

Figure 1. Build and Deploy Container Images
The content of this image is explained in the surrounding text.

The key steps of the delivery pipeline are:

  1. You need a repository for your source code. GitHub is the most popular tool that is involved in CI/CD solutions including RHOCP.
  2. You need a place where the container images are stored. Remember, in RHOCP deployments, applications are represented as containers, which can be orchestrated in a standardized fashion. RHOCP provides an internal image repository, which typically pulls the container images from an external registry when you use and share containerized software in different environments.
  3. RHOCP takes care of running and scaling the containers, which has been created from the source code during this build and deploy process.