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Openshift doesn't choose the pipeline. You can deploy to it however you want. Openshift is literally the same exact thing as kubernetes, with a simpler api and a nice ui. Openshift is extremely flexible and you can use it however you want. Don't know why you think it's so restrictive.

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It has the same API as k8s. It's literally the same thing, OpenShift just adds some PaaS feature on top of k8s.

Which is precisely why I've run it for over 2 years now. The devs on my team love throwing a git URL into OpenShift and have a project go live in mere minutes, previously a more senior developer would need to setup a CI pipeline and deployment automation and even with experience it was a chore.

It's not like I'm personally afraid of k8s or building docker images myself either, but anything to help my team be more productive without needing to hold hands or do gruntwork on their behalf improves the lives of everyone.

Exactly right. I don't understand all those teams reinventing the wheel building custom k8s distributions, rather than using something like OpenShift and focusing on their core business.

Running custom k8s in production is the 2019 equivalent of using Gentoo.

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