sc-about-opensourceproj.md

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years 2017, 2022	2022-07-04	about schematics open source projects, open source projects, why use schematics, terraform template, schematics workspace	schematics

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Usage of open source projects in {{site.data.keyword.bpshort}}

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{{site.data.keyword.bpshort}} leverages open source projects, such as Terraform, Ansible, {{site.data.keyword.openshiftshort}}, Operators, Helm, and delivers these capabilities to you as a managed service. Rather than installing each Open Source project on your machine, and learning the API or command-line. You can declare the tasks that you want to run in {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} and watch {{site.data.keyword.bpshort}} run these tasks for you.

{{site.data.keyword.bplong_notm}} integrates with various open source projects to provide powerful automation and configuration management capabilities. Review the open source projects that {{site.data.keyword.bpshort}} integrates with and the {{site.data.keyword.bpshort}} component that you can use to leverage these capabilities. {: shortdesc}

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	Ansible{: external} is a configuration management and provisioning tool, similar to Chef and Puppet. It is designed to automate the configuration and management of cloud environments, and to deploy multitiered app workloads in the cloud.
	Helm{: external} is a Kubernetes package manager that uses Helm charts to define, install, and upgrade complex Kubernetes apps in an {{site.data.keyword.containerlong_notm}} cluster.
	OpenShift Operators{: external} are a convenient way to add and run community, Third party, and other services in a {{site.data.keyword.openshiftlong_notm}} cluster.
	Terraform{: external} is an Open Source project that specify your cloud infrastructure resources and services by using a high-level scripting language.
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Next steps

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• Learn more about the {{site.data.keyword.bpshort}} terminologies used in {{site.data.keyword.bpshort}}.
• Do you want to know how the Open Source technologies works in {{site.data.keyword.bpshort}}? Then, you need to explore these use cases.
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