OpenShift Application Engineering

Building an application on OpenShift is only the beginning. Production environments demand far more: automated delivery, secure configurations, scalable workloads, observability, reliable infrastructure, and engineering practices that can withstand continuous change.

OpenShift Application Engineering takes the next step beyond application development and explores the advanced practices required to engineer and operate production-ready applications on OpenShift.

Building on the foundations established in the first book, this volume focuses on the engineering systems surrounding modern applications. You'll explore how to automate application delivery, design repeatable deployment workflows, integrate CI/CD practices, manage application configuration securely, improve scalability, monitor workloads, and troubleshoot complex production scenarios.

The book emphasizes practical engineering patterns rather than isolated features. You'll learn not only how to implement these capabilities, but also why they matter and how they fit into a broader cloud-native application lifecycle.

• Advanced application deployment patterns on OpenShift

• Container image management and application build strategies

• Kubernetes-native automation and configuration management

• CI/CD pipelines and automated application delivery

• Git-based development and deployment workflows

• Secure management of application configuration and credentials

• Application scaling, resource management, and workload optimization

• Health checks, observability, logging, and troubleshooting

• Reliability and resilience strategies for production workloads

• Security considerations for containerized applications

• Automation patterns for repeatable application operations

• Engineering practices for maintaining applications throughout their lifecycle

Designed for developers, DevOps engineers, platform engineers, SREs, and infrastructure-minded application teams, this book bridges the gap between deploying an application and engineering a production-grade application platform.

If Book 1 taught you how to build and deploy applications with OpenShift, this volume shows you how to automate, secure, scale, observe, and engineer those applications for real-world production environments.

Build beyond deployment. Engineer for production.