This might be an old adage but it most certainly doesn't make it any less true: before we learn to run, we must first learn to walk, and even before that, we must learn to crawl. Effectively, this chapter will progress through a little crawling and then some walking in the world of Cloud Technologies, SSH utility, Git Source Control Management software, and onto OpenShift. You'll be running in no time. If you are well versed in the topics leading up to the OpenShift specifics, please feel free to simply skim through the sections offering this background information or skip them altogether as they will most likely be review material. However, if this is new territory to you, please proceed. For those who have some experience in this area, hopefully the following passages will be a helpful refresher.