[Full disclosure: I work for Red Hat as an OpenShift Consultant] The truth is a bit more nuanced as Kubernetes and OpenShift are actually made up of dozens of

[Full disclosure: I work for Red Hat as an OpenShift Consultant] The truth is a bit more nuanced as Kubernetes and OpenShift are actually made up of dozens of projects and integrations. Our company contributes to (as upstreams) in support of our OpenShift Enterprise offering: Kubernetes, Linux kernel, HAProxy, Jenkins, Hawkular, Heapster, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, FluentD, Kibana, Jenkins, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, Ansible, Go-lang, and probably many more. We do almost all of our work completely in the open (our docs, container images, templates, examples, blogs) via github and trello. In fact, you can run just about the same OpenShift (officially called OpenShift Container Platform (OCP or OSCP) or OpenShift Enterprise (OSE)) we sell by using our upstream project for it, OpenShift Origin [0][1]. If that looks complicated, you can try minishift [2][3] to start which also has an upstream Kubernetes project in minikube [4]. In terms of superset vs. fork: it's not quite a superset because almost everything we commit to OpenShift gets committed to Kubernetes and/or vicea versa. You can almost always say if it works in OpenShift, it works in Kubernetes; if it works in Kubernetes, it works in OpenShift. It's not really a fork either (as we say often "Best idea wins!") and so our people (including management!) try to make sure we are adding value to Kubernetes so that our customers & the community can then extract that value. OpenShift/Kubernetes metrics is one place that affects me & my customers that we're following the community's lead on that and implementing new developments in OpenShift as Tech Previews when appropriate. Our code is not diverging from Kubernetes as much as you might think in supporting some of the "enterprise" features we've added. So, I would say OpenShift is a Distro of Kubernetes in the same ways RHEL, SuSE, et. al., are GNU/Linux Distros. You might say Kubernetes provides the "kernel" for a modern Data Center (compute resource scheduling and management, internal/external data structures and interfaces to use such compute resources). OpenShift is intended to help provide everything else you expect your data center to do for you or to support your Application Development in Java, .Net, node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, etc (UI & CLI management interfaces, simplified build and deployment processes (S2I), Jenkins integration, external logging integration, external monitoring integration, sample 12 Factor Applications, etc.). We partner with companies when they want help bringing on their storage systems, frameworks, databases, applications, etc., just like you'd expect when companies provide drivers for their databases, hardware, or storage systems for OS kernels. [0] https://www.openshift.org/ https://www.openshift.org/ [1] https://github.com/openshift/origin https://github.com/openshift/origin [2] https://docs.openshift.org/latest/minishift/getting-started/installing.html https://docs.openshift.org/latest/minishift/getting-started/... [3] https://github.com/minishift/minishift https://github.com/minishift/minishift [4] https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/