One of the more exciting announcements at this year’s Red Hat Summit was Red Hat Inc.’s launch of a highly anticipated set of DevOps tools called OpenShift.io. The tools were created with Red Hat’s OpenShift environment in mind, and in addition to solving issues such as difficulties with toolset integration or the need to familiarize oneself with third-party files, such as Kubernetes or Docker, OpenShift.io is positioned to improve quality and the ease-of-use for developers working with OpenShift.

The primary goal with OpenShift.io was to make it easier for developers to work with code strictly within the OpenShift environment in order to plan, code, analyze and deploy their applications in the most efficient manner, according to Harry Mower (pictured), senior director of developer programs at Red Hat.

“It’s brand new product. It’s a hosted online environment for building cloud services, whether you choose to do that as a microservice or monolith or whatever architectural pattern you choose,” he said. “We provide end-to-end tools for development teams to build them and host them on OpenShift online.”

Mower sat down with Rebecca Knight (@knightrm) and Stu Miniman (@stu), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s mobile live-streaming studio, during the Red Hat Summit in Boston, Massachusetts, to discuss OpenShift.io with the hosts and what it means for Red Hat. (Disclosure below.)

Are all companies are becoming software companies?

As modern companies begin to aggressively compete for a substantial share of whatever market they are in, Miniman quoted an adage that has been kicking around the cloud community for a while now: “software is eating the world and everyone is becoming a software company”. This may be a trope but it accurately reflects the situation in the DevOps community quite well. Many customers that are not traditionally known as high-tech have been playing around with OpenShift and are beginning to realize the advantage it can bring to organizations who adopt it.

According to Mower, when you adopt a cloud-based DevOps platform, the more comprehensive that platform is, the easier it will be to work with. OpenShift.io was envisioned to improve that quality of OpenShift.

“Building software is building software no matter where you deploy it, so the process that you go through to get your team, to envision the project, to set up the project, and then divvy out the work and then have the work be done — OpenShift.io provides all the tools to do that,” Mower concluded.

Something indicative of what a major role software development in today’s marketplace is how many companies were at one time simply traditional businesses with traditional IT departments, or basically the branch of their organization that dealt with computer hardware, email functions and oversaw the internal in-house network, Mower stated.

A closer look, however, at many of these “traditional” businesses reveals that many are now taking advantage of the open-source community by creating their own applications, writing and maintaining their own code and its distribution, and in many cases using OpenShift and its developer tools like OpenShift.io to do it, Mower concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s independent editorial coverage of Red Hat Summit 2017. (* Disclosure: Red Hat Inc. sponsored this Red Hat Summit segment on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE. Neither Red Hat nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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