Red Hat OpenShift Local (formerly Red Hat CodeReady Containers)

OpenShift Local on your laptop gets you up and running with an OpenShift cluster on your local machine in minutes.

Local development with OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift Local is the quickest way to get started building OpenShift clusters. It is designed to run on a local computer to simplify setup and testing, and to emulate the cloud development environment locally with all of the tools needed to develop container-based applications.

Whatever your programming language, OpenShift Local hosts your application and brings a minimal, preconfigured OpenShift cluster to your local PC without the need for a server-based infrastructure.

With OpenShift Local, you can create microservices, build them into images, and run them in Kubernetes-hosted containers, right on your laptop or desktop running Linux, macOS, or Windows 10.

OpenShift Local is designed for local development and testing on an OpenShift cluster.

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OpenShift Local features

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New technology beyond the minishift experience.

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Includes a local version of the OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).

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Improved startup process and integrated service mesh, serverless, and connects to VS Code with the OpenShift Connector.

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Automatically installs and enables the xpaas templates, anyuid access controls, and admin-user add-ons.

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A single-node cluster with a number of templates and includes a local Docker registry and its API.

OpenShift Local articles

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Dec 11, 2024

Our top Kubernetes and OpenShift articles of 2024

Colleen Lobner

Find Kubernetes and OpenShift articles on performance and scale testing,...

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Oct 14, 2024

How oc-mirror version 2 enables disconnected installations in OpenShift 4.16

Mohammad Ahmad +2

See how to use oc-mirror to install OpenShift in disconnected environments...

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Aug 19, 2024

Supercharge your Red Hat OpenShift local environment with Red Hat OpenShift...

Vivian Chinoda

This article explores the installation, usage and benefits of Red Hat...

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Jul 31, 2024

Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation for developers and data scientists

Fernando Lozano

Learn how to deploy and use the Multi-Cloud Object Gateway (MCG) from Red Hat...