• Production promotions are a laborious, manual process

• Developers have little to no control over dev environments

• Bamboo improved some of this, but not nearly enough

• Load balancing is available but is still somewhat manual

• Application monitoring requires a watchdog program

• Easy setup and deployment

• Automatic load balancing

• Will spin up extra pods when it detects traffic above a certain threshold
• This is configurable – can also manually add or remove pods

• Configuration files hosted and edited within OpenShift

• Passwords can be injected using secrets

• Jenkins plugin allows for automated builds

• Pipelines can be set up to push apps to multiple projects with one click (or a commit to a specified branch)

• Install cluster and configure users

• Create a project or projects

• Add an application to the project

• Build an image
• Inject properties as needed
• Create a route to allow external access to the app

• Set up a build and a pipeline

• Can use multiple of each, if different branches need automatic deployment