More Partners Support OpenShift Cartridge API to Offer Developers
Increased Choice, Along with Quicker and Simpler Integration
RALEIGH, N.C. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RED HAT SUMMIT 2013
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced a new cartridge specification for its
OpenShift Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering that will enable tighter
integration with the complementary partner technologies and products
through its OpenShift Partner Program. With the new cartridge
specification, OpenShift developers can experience improved ease of use
and reduced time to add partner solutions, enabling them to design and
code applications without losing time on technology integration.
Cartridges represent a way to plug key technologies and services into
applications that are built on OpenShift. The cartridge infrastructure
within OpenShift gives developers a self-service way to select the
technologies that they need to successfully build and run applications,
including middleware and databases. By providing this automated,
self-service integration capability via cartridges, OpenShift enables
developers to focus on what they do best — writing code, and not on
installing or administering software.
The current cartridge specification greatly simplifies the process of
building and deploying cartridges. It not only reduces the effort
required to create new cartridges, but also speeds up the process of
installing and configuring them for use. This streamlined approach has
allowed more partners to enable their technology on OpenShift expanding
on the number of tools available to developers, which also reduces
environment setup and configuration time. Available today in the latest
release of OpenShift Online and coming soon to OpenShift Enterprise, the
new cartridge API is designed to help better facilitate partner
integration by allowing them to incorporate and offer more of their
technology's features with OpenShift.
Several members of the OpenShift Partner Program have already integrated
their solutions with OpenShift using the new cartridge API
specification, including 10gen, Codenvy, Correlsense, EnterpriseDB,
Iron.io, MongoLab, New Relic, OC Systems, and Zend.
Since its initial launch in May 2011, the OpenShift Partner Program has
evolved to offer developers a comprehensive ecosystem of partners that
offer a selection of solutions that are complementary to OpenShift.
Today, OpenShift delivers to developers a cloud application platform
with a choice of programming languages, frameworks and application
lifecycle tools to build and run their applications. The platform
provides built-in support for Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, and Java
and the capability for developers to add their own. OpenShift also
supports many popular frameworks, including Java EE, Spring, Play and
Rails.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, general manager, Cloud and OpenShift, Red Hat
"OpenShift is about developer freedom. In addition to offering a broad
choice of languages, frameworks and tools that give developers
flexibility in building their applications, we want to make the
OpenShift experience different from other PaaS offerings. Instead of
spending time concerned with technology integration, with our new
cartridge spec, developers can get back to what they love to do:
building amazing apps. I'm excited that so many of our technology
partners have already embraced the new cartridge spec API to bring that
experience to our growing user base."
Max Schireson, CEO, 10gen
"MongoDB's ease of use coupled with superior scalability and performance
continue to drive developer adoption. Through our ongoing collaboration
and the cartridge integration with Red Hat OpenShift, we have been able
to extend MongoDB's reach by making it available to the growing number
of developers using Platform-as-a-Service, both online and on-premise."
Tyler Jewell, CEO, Codenvy
"Tighter integration and customization are just two of the many benefits
of OpenShift's new cartridge infrastructure. Codenvy's cloud IDE enables
developers to code, build and test any kind of OpenShift project; deploy
the finished project directly to OpenShift; integrate on-premise
alongside OpenShift Enterprise; and develop customized OpenShift
cartridges. We are thrilled by the investments made by Red Hat to
support developers and all their needs."
Tom Kincaid, vice president, Products and Engineering, EnterpriseDB
"We are excited to offer OpenShift Enterprise customers the ability to
connect to our Postgres Plus Advanced Server database. With
enterprise-class database features, including Oracle database
compatibility, Postgres Enterprise Manager and xDB Replication Server,
Red Hat's customers will have a performant, cost-effective database to
run their applications. OpenShift will significantly speed our ability
to deliver a new way for organizations to deploy Postgres Plus Advanced
Server and enjoy greater enhanced choice and flexibility in the cloud."
Chad Arimura, CEO, Iron.io
"OpenShift's open hybrid approach gives developers the freedom to build
applications that can run in both private and public clouds without
worrying about vendor lock-in. We are excited to offer Iron.io's
functionality in support of these needs of Cloud developers through our
cartridge integration with Red Hat OpenShift."
Bill Lapcevic, vice president, Business Development, New Relic
"Applications in the cloud are all about speed, scale, and agile
development. The use of OpenShift cartridges allow New Relic
functionality to be added to OpenShift with a single click, without ever
needing to worry about costly integration. We are excited to support Red
Hat OpenShift with a cartridge as it further extends New Relic's reach
through Red Hat to even more developers — both online and in the
Enterprise."
Andi Gutmans, CEO, Zend
"Zend has always been proud to be part of the Red Hat ecosystem. Our
support for OpenShift Online and now also OpenShift Enterprise reflects
our ongoing enthusiasm for Red Hat's technology. We're excited to be an
integrated partner in both Red Hat's public and private PaaS offerings."
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