How to develop, build, deploy, and run your applications on any OpenShift or Kubernetes compatible platform using OpenShift Client aka oc command?

This OpenShift Client helps you develop, build, deploy, and run your applications on any OpenShift or Kubernetes compatible platform.
Here are the step by step guide on how to for absolute beginners:
Note: Make sure to add oc (OpenShift Client) to your environment variable so you can run that command from anywhere.
Step 1: login to your server:
Command : oc login https://yourcluster.yourcompany.com
If required only you must first obtain an API token by going into https://yourcluster.yourcompany.com/oauth/token/request
Find this screenshot below. If this is something you haven’t setup yet go to my other article on how to setup OpenShift locally. http://www.javapan.com/how-to-setup-openshift-in-my-local-machine/
Get your token this way from the console below:
Click on this question icon and you should see this below:
Click on Command Line Tools above:
Now all you have to do is copy that token from the clipboard on the right above and paste it in your oc command line tool below.
These token do have some expiration period so you might have to do this process again. This should conclude step 1.
Step 2: Create new-app using command line. You can also create from console itself. Demo is done using command line:
Command: oc new-app your-app-name/your-docker-image-name~your-repository-url
A Docker image is a read-only template that contains a set of instructions for creating a container that can run on the Docker platform.
For Docker image information you could use oc new-app –list to view all:
For this demo I will go with this image: “jboss-webserver54-openjdk11-tomcat9-openshift-rhel7‿
Before I go create a new app I will first create a gitsecret as I am using GitHub repo so that it will save me a lot of hassle down the line.
Use this command below: FYI: before from and type it is two dashes (Somehow on mobile device it is showing a single dash, it is two dashes )
oc create secret generic gitsecret –from-literal=username=yourusername–from-password=yourpassword –type=kubernetes.io/basic-auth
Now naming and creating an Application.
Use this command:
oc new-app openshift/jboss-webserver54-openjdk11-tomcat9-openshift-rhel7:latest~https://github.com/jboss-openshift/openshift-quickstarts#my-demo –source-secret=gitsecret
Now if you go to OpenShift console you should see something like this:
Once your application is deployed, use the status, describe, and get commands to see more about the created components:
oc status
oc get pods
OpenShift Console Example:
Command Line Example: oc describe deploymentconfig openshift-quickstarts
Step 3: Make Your Application visible outside the cluster.
To make this application visible outside of the cluster, use the expose command on the service we just created to create a ‘route’ (which will connect your application over the HTTP port to a public domain name).
Command: oc expose svc/openshift-quickstarts
Console View:
You can run oc status command to see more details. You should now see the URL the application can be reached at. This is a very initial step towards learning OpenShift please do refer to Red Hat Official Documentation for OpenShift for more information.
See helpful command with their usage below :
types An introduction to concepts and types
login Log in to a server
new-project Request a new project
new-app Create a new application
status Show an overview of the current project
project Switch to another project
projects Display existing projects
explain Documentation of resources
cluster Start and stop OpenShift cluster
rollout Manage a Kubernetes deployment or OpenShift deployment config
rollback Revert part of an application back to a previous deployment
new-build Create a new build configuration
start-build Start a new build
cancel-build Cancel running, pending, or new builds
import-image Imports images from a Docker registry
tag Tag existing images into image streams
get Display one or many resources
describe Show details of a specific resource or group of resources
edit Edit a resource on the server
set Commands that help set specific features on objects
label Update the labels on a resource
annotate Update the annotations on a resource
expose Expose a replicated application as a service or route
delete Delete one or more resources
scale Change the number of pods in a deployment
autoscale Autoscale a deployment config, deployment, replication controller, or replica set
secrets Manage secrets
serviceaccounts Manage service accounts in your project
logs Print the logs for a resource
rsh Start a shell session in a pod
rsync Copy files between local filesystem and a pod
port-forward Forward one or more local ports to a pod
debug Launch a new instance of a pod for debugging
exec Execute a command in a container
proxy Run a proxy to the Kubernetes API server
attach Attach to a running container
run Run a particular image on the cluster
cp Copy files and directories to and from containers.
wait Experimental: Wait for one condition on one or many resources
adm Tools for managing a cluster
create Create a resource from a file or from stdin.
replace Replace a resource by filename or stdin
apply Apply a configuration to a resource by filename or stdin
patch Update field(s) of a resource using strategic merge patch
process Process a template into list of resources
export Export resources so they can be used elsewhere
extract Extract secrets or config maps to disk
idle Idle scalable resources
observe Observe changes to resources and react to them (experimental)
policy Manage authorization policy
auth Inspect authorization
convert Convert config files between different API versions
import Commands that import applications
image Useful commands for managing images
registry Commands for working with the registry
api-versions Print the supported API versions on the server, in the form of “group/version‿
api-resources Print the supported API resources on the server
logout End the current server session
config Change configuration files for the client
whoami Return information about the current session
completion Output shell completion code for the specified shell (bash or zsh)
ex Experimental commands under active development
help Help about any command
plugin Runs a command-line plugin
version Display client and server versions