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tenant, Amazon Web Services (AWS) public
cloud environment provided as a managed
service by Red Hat. Schiphol also deployed
OpenShift Container Platform in parallel in
an Azure cloud. The OpenShift Dedicated
cluster will eventually be handed over
to Schiphol and changed to OpenShift
Container Platform to support the airport’s
multi-cloud strategy. During implementation,
Schiphol engaged Red Hat Consulting
to assist with building and deploying
its OpenShift environment, particularly
OpenShift Dedicated. The airport has now
launched OpenShift Dedicated in production
and is close to completing implementation
of OpenShift Container Platform.
Aalbers. “Without the combination of JBoss
Fuse and OpenShift Container Platform,
its creation would have taken twice as
long. We want to build stable, sustainable
solutions, but we need things to happen
quickly. Our developers don’t have to wait for
development or test environments now, so
we can add greater business value quickly.”
In addition, Red Hat 3scale API
Management Platform simplifies and
streamlines API management for faster
deployment. “With 3scale API Management
Platform, the learning curve is small and you
can deploy APIs very quickly,” said Aalbers.
would like to stay in control, but we want
to let other teams make their own choices
within that framework. Red Hat OpenShift
helps us do so.”
Vendor flexibility
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is a
vendor-agnostic cloud offering. As a result,
Schiphol can deploy solutions from other
providers in its cloud environment whenever
it needs and even move away from Red
Hat to another vendor. “Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform supports our architects’
vision of hybrid cloud, with no cloud provider
lock-in,” said Aalbers.
Support our culture shift
“Using Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated helped
us speed the project. It was set up and ready
to use in only 10 working days,” said Aalbers.
“Red Hat helped us migrate our services into
OpenShift Dedicated and maintains the day-
to-day operations of OpenShift Container
With the new OpenShift environment, the
airport’s IT team is seeing a shift in processes
and approaches towards greater agility,
while still providing a stable infrastructure.
Self-service capabilities help Schiphol’s teams
USING RED HAT OPENSHIFT DEDICATED
HELPED US SPEED THE PROJECT. IT WAS
SET UP AND READY TO USE IN ONLY 10
WORKING DAYS.
Platform. I’m very, very happy with the
consultant that we had. He really made a
significant difference.”
Speeding and simplifying
innovative services rapid
development and deployment
With the new platform, Schiphol can more
quickly add new services. Connecting its
on-premise environment to OpenShift
Container Platform using JBoss Fuse lets the
airport easily exchange data between its
main systems and cloud APIs, such as the
Flight API. In addition, by using its Airport
Service Bus platform to infuse data into its
JBoss Fuse-based API services in OpenShift
Container Platform, the airport’s IT teams
can develop new APIs 50% faster.
“The operational Flight API took two
weeks for three developers to create,” said
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work more efficiently. “The API platform and
OpenShift Container Platform are perfect
examples of tools that help IT quickly deliver
business value,” said Aalbers. “They give us the
opportunity to create a self-service platform
for our colleagues and other business partners
to deploy their own APIs, provision their own
functional documentation and start their own
development stacks in OpenShift.” As a result,
Schiphol can more quickly work together to
develop and deploy solutions to improve the
customer experience for its passengers.
“It’s not only about technology. To achieve
your ambitions, you also have to look at
changing your workforce and the way
people are working,” said Garbis van
Okburcht, IT Manager of Airport Operation
Services at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
“We are shifting to working in agile,
dedicated teams with a lot of autonomy.
From an infrastructure perspective, we
Supporting the journey
to becoming the leading
digital airport
After its success with other Red Hat
products, Schiphol plans to add Red Hat
CloudForms to support its self-service
model by providing unified visibility and
control over its virtual infrastructures
through a single management interface.
In addition, the airport plans to migrate
its main public website to OpenShift
Container Platform.
“We are confident that we can run our
critical systems on OpenShift Container
Platform,” said Aalbers. “Once we’ve
completed the move to OpenShift
Container Platform in our on-premise
infrastructure, we will look at moving
more components and interfaces to
this environment.” By using OpenShift
Container Platform, Schiphol has support
for creating a hybrid, multi-cloud platform
that spans its Microsoft Azure, Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and local
VMware environments, and can scale
beyond its on-premise environment to take
advantage of cloud resources when extra
capacity is needed.
With this innovative technology foundation,
Schiphol has robust support for its goal of
becoming the leading digital airport.
“Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform has
truly stolen my heart. It is innovative and
lets us deploy quickly and easily control our
containers,” said Aalbers. “We’re very happy
about OpenShift Container Platform.” n
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