Deploying a sample application into OCP CRC local with odo

HOWTO

• OCP local CRC https://crc.dev/docs/introducing/
  
• odo install https://odo.dev/docs/overview/installation/
  

See also

• https://danielveselka.blogspot.com/2025/08/install-local-openshift-crc.html
  

 Prerequisites

• You have installed odo. For more information, see Installing odo in the odo documentation.

• CRC is configured to use the OpenShift preset. See: Changing the selected preset.

• The CRC instance is running. See: Starting the instance.

Installing odo

dave@fedora:~/Downloads$ curl -L https://developers.redhat.com/content-gateway/rest/mirror/pub/openshift-v4/clients/odo/v3.16.1/odo-linux-amd64 -o odo -o odo
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100 90.1M  100 90.1M    0     0  4255k      0  0:00:21  0:00:21 --:--:-- 4785k
dave@fedora:~/Downloads$ curl -L https://developers.redhat.com/content-gateway/rest/mirror/pub/openshift-v4/clients/odo/v3.16.1/odo-linux-amd64.sha256 -o odo.sha256
echo "$(<odo.sha256)  odo" | shasum -a 256 --check
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100    64  100    64    0     0    181      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   181
bash: shasum: command not found...
Install package 'perl-Digest-SHA' to provide command 'shasum'? [N/y] y


 * Waiting in queue... 
 * Loading list of packages.... 
The following packages have to be installed:
 perl-Digest-SHA-1:6.04-513.fc42.x86_64    Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/384/512
Proceed with changes? [N/y] y


 * Waiting in queue... 
 * Waiting for authentication... 
 * Waiting in queue... 
 * Downloading packages... 
 * Requesting data... 
 * Testing changes... 
 * Installing packages... 
shasum: standard input: no properly formatted SHA checksum lines found

dave@fedora:~/Downloads$ curl -L https://developers.redhat.com/content-gateway/rest/mirror/pub/openshift-v4/clients/odo/v3.16.1/odo-linux-amd64.sha256 -o odo.sha256
echo "$(<odo.sha256)  odo" | shasum -a 256 --check
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100    64  100    64    0     0    385      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   385
odo: OK
dave@fedora:~/Downloads$ sudo install -o root -g root -m 0755 odo /usr/local/bin/odo
[sudo] password for dave: 

dave@fedora:~/Downloads$  odo login -u developer -p developer
Connecting to the OpenShift cluster

Login successful.

You don't have any projects. You can try to create a new project, by running

    odo create project <projectname>

dave@fedora:~/Downloads$ odo create project sample-app
 ✓  Creating the project "sample-app" [80ms]
 ✓  Project "sample-app" is ready for use
 ✓  New project created and now using project: sample-app
dave@fedora:~/Downloads$ mkdir sample-app
dave@fedora:~/Downloads$ cd sample-app
dave@fedora:~/Downloads/sample-app$ git clone https://github.com/openshift/nodejs-ex
Cloning into 'nodejs-ex'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 836, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Total 836 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 835 (from 2)
Receiving objects: 100% (836/836), 773.00 KiB | 908.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (321/321), done.
dave@fedora:~/Downloads/sample-app$ cd nodejs-ex