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= Introduction to {product-title}
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With {product-title}, you can expand your application environment from just a few machines and applications to thousands of machines that serve millions of clients.

{product-title} is a cloud-based Kubernetes container platform. The foundation of {product-title} is based on Kubernetes and therefore shares the same technology. 

Using {product-title}, you can perform the following tasks:

* Provide developers and IT organizations with cloud application platforms that can be used for deploying applications on secure and scalable resources.

* Require minimal configuration and management overhead.

* Bring the Kubernetes platform to customer data centers and cloud.

* Meet security, privacy, compliance, and governance requirements.

With its foundation in Kubernetes, {product-title} incorporates the same technology that serves as the engine for massive telecommunications, streaming video, gaming, banking, and other applications. Its implementation in open Red Hat technologies lets you extend your containerized applications beyond a single cloud to on-premise and multi-cloud environments.

{product-title} is a platform for developing and running containerized applications. It is designed to allow applications and the data centers that support them to expand from just a few machines and applications to thousands of machines that serve millions of clients.

include::modules/understanding-openshift.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/openshift-use-cases.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

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== Additional resources

* xref:../installing/installing_sno/install-sno-preparing-to-install-sno.adoc#preparing-to-install-sno[Preparing to install on a single node]
* link:https://access.redhat.com/articles/7067871[OpenShift Virtualization - Reference Implementation Guide (Red{nbsp}Hat Knowledgebase)]
* link:https://www.solutionpatterns.io/patterns/[Explore Solution Patterns (Solution Patterns from Red Hat documentation)]

