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Duke University OKD Documentation

Duke University OKD: A managed platform for developing and deploying webapps in your choice of programming languages, versions and frameworks - on-demand.

  • Development Environment in Minutes
  • Choice of Languages, Tools, and Frameworks
  • Centrally Managed Infrastructure

Features and Benefits

Focus On Development: Worry about your application rather than infrastructure management. We'll manage the servers - you can focus on the code.

On-Demand Environment: Projects can be created instantly.

Choice of Languages: Choose from a list of popular programming languages and frameworks. Numerous community-supported starter code will get you going with other software options.

Enterprise Infrastructure: The service is hosted on server class hardware and is maintained by OIT personnel whom already provide enterprise-level management and support to critical university software applications.

What is OKD

OKD is a distribution of Kubernetes optimized for continuous application development to enable rapid application development, easy deployment and scaling.

Getting Started

For learning, experimentation or other non-production use cases, please use the - Development OKD4 Cluster

For new projects please use: - Production OKD4 Cluster

You can create a new project with the OIT Cloud Registrar. A Duke FundCode is required.

For legacy projects, the OKD3 Management Console is available.

How to get Help

Kubernetes and OKD can have a bit of a learning curve when getting started. Find out how to get help.


Last update: February 27, 2024