Introduction

Red Hat Openshift is essentially an opinionated Kubernetes distribution that comes with a large number of features such as CI/CD and container registry built-in; for a full list of differences look at the Red Hat OpenShift vs. Kubernetes. Openshift comes in a number of versions, some commercial and some open source. The naming history of Openshift is particularly confusing. That’s why I wrote this blog post where I attempt to list most Openshift versions and variants and outline their main differences.