PAS for OpenEdge is available as a container so developers can develop, deploy, and run applications in an isolated container environment. This book describes how to configure PAS for OpenEdge containers.

Docker containers provide several advantages when used with PAS for OpenEdge:
  • Using Docker containers helps reduce overhead for packaging and deploying ABL applications, allowing you to streamline your application distribution processes. You only need to create a Docker custom container image with PAS for OpenEdge once, then you can distribute that image and run as many containers as needed.
  • Similarly, when upgrading your Docker containers for PAS for OpenEdge, you only need to upgrade one image, and then you can easily redistribute the upgraded image.
  • Clustering tools such as Docker Swarm and Kubernetes allow you to run multiple PAS for OpenEdge containers in a cluster, which provides high availability and elasticity.

This video is a quick introduction to the concepts surrounding container technology. We will briefly explain Docker, containers, and Kubernetes, as well as the benefits they provide to PAS for OpenEdge.