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OpenShift architecture

The OpenShift Container platform is both simple and complex when it comes to OpenShift components and overall architecture. It is complex in that it involves a lot of components interconnected with each other, but OpenShift is simple in the sense that all its components work independently of each other, and work seamlessly if something fails:

OpenShift components

OpenShift and Kubernetes have most architecture components in common, such as:

OpenShift masters
OpenShift nodes
Etcd as a key-value store

Components that are unique to OpenShift are:

Router as ingress traffic control
OpenShift Internal Registry

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