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.

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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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