Lightweight Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based host environment and
integrated developer services enable organizations to streamline
application development and deployment across the open hybrid cloud
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced several new Linux Container innovations in
support of the company's vision for streamlined application delivery and
orchestration across bare metal systems, virtual machines and private
and public clouds via containers and Docker technology. These
innovations include:
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Project Atomic - a new community project to develop
technologies for creating lightweight Linux Container hosts, based on
next-generation capabilities in the Linux ecosystem. The tools that
result from Project Atomic will allow creation of a new variant of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host - which
Red Hat plans to debut with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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GearD - a new OpenShift Origin community project to enable
rapid application development, continuous integration, delivery, and
deployment of application code to containerized application
environments.
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High-Touch Beta Program - an expansion of the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7 high-touch beta program to include Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Atomic Host and Docker container technologies that
will enable select customers to evaluate these new container
technologies in enterprise environments.
Linux Containers and Docker have quickly emerged as key open source
application packaging and delivery technologies, combining lightweight
application isolation with the flexibility of an image-based deployment
method. This can provide several benefits, including:
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Application portability, allowing for the deployment of the
application container across a variety of container hosts.
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Minimal footprint, which reduces the overhead of deploying new
application containers.
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Simplified maintenance, reducing the effort and risk of
patching applications and their dependencies.
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Lowered development costs, as enterprises need only develop,
test and certify applications against a single container runtime.
Open source container technologies also pave the way for an
application-optimized infrastructure for the open hybrid cloud, one that
can simplify the entire application lifecycle, from development and
deployment to maintenance and management. As an increasing number of
enterprises embrace DevOps philosophies, Red Hat expects container
technologies will play a significant role in how organizations deliver
and manage applications.
With the growing popularity of both Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), application containers also help
prevent cloud lock-in. By separating infrastructure services from the
application, containerized applications can move freely between not only
different clouds, but also physical and virtual environments, consuming
only the needed services and delivering upon the extreme flexibility
promised by the open hybrid cloud.
With these new container initiatives, Red Hat seeks to bring the
transparency and standardization with which it has codified so many
other technology ecosystems, from virtualization to the cloud, to
containers. By offering an enterprise class, container-specific host
along with new container capabilities in the world's leading enterprise
Linux platform and a certification program for containerized
applications, along with an extensive ecosystem of support and services,
Red Hat is the first and only IT leader to offer a comprehensive vision
of containerized application delivery for the open hybrid cloud,
including portability across bare metal systems, virtual machines and
private and public clouds.
"Atomic" Container Hosts
Project
Atomic aims to provide technologies to create lightweight
host operating systems for containerized applications that can be
applied to Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The "Atomic"
container host provides the essential functionality for running
application containers like Docker, while maintaining a small footprint
and allowing for atomic updates. This means simplified maintenance, but
also enables higher levels of verification, control, and even roll-backs
of applied updates.
Project Atomic will provide the upstream community for Fedora and CentOS
Atomic hosts, along with a new Red Hat Enterprise Linux offering: Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic
Host couples the flexible, lightweight and modular capabilities of Linux
Containers with the reliability and security of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
in a reduced image size that will enable easy movement of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux-certified applications across bare metal systems,
virtual machines and private and public clouds.
Key Red
Hat Enterprise Linux features are inherited by Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, including:
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systemd, a powerful, flexible process manager that will help
manage the administration of containers.
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Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux), which offers military-grade
security and isolation to a container environment.
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compatibility with the forthcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
as well as Red Hat's certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Container
ecosystems.
Developer and Application Services
With the GearD
project, Red Hat further enables customers to tap the power of
containerized applications. Red Hat expects that new developer and
application services resulting from GearD in OpenShift
Origin, the open source project that forms the community for
Red Hat's suite of OpenShift
PaaS offerings, will drive future innovations in both
OpenShift Enterprise and OpenShift Online.
GearD was created to provide:
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Integration between application containers and deployment
technologies like Git, enabling developers to quickly go from
application source code to containerized application stacks deployed
onto production systems.
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The ability to connect and orchestrate multiple application
containers spanning multiple container hosts, enabling developers
to deploy complex, composite applications while making efficient use
of infrastructure resources.
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Flexible and dynamic routing of network traffic to the
composite applications.
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Additional services to address the needs of both application
developers and IT operations administrators as they deploy and
leverage containerized application platforms and DevOps practices.
Availability
The Project Atomic and GearD community projects are both available
immediately at http://www.projectatomic.io
and openshift.github.io/geard,
respectively.
A High-Touch Beta Program including Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host
and Docker container technologies will be available for select customers
in the coming months. General availability for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Atomic Host will be announced at a later date.
Supporting Quotes
Paul Cormier, president, Product and Technologies, Red Hat
"As the cloud enters the computing mainstream and applications, not
infrastructure, become the focus of enterprise IT, the operating system
takes on greater importance in supporting the application and the
infrastructure, without sacrificing the basic requirements of security,
stability and manageability. Our newly-announced container offerings,
including Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, will drive this vision
forward, helping enterprises embrace streamlined application delivery
through the power of Linux Containers and Docker, and enabling the free
movement of applications across cloud, virtual and physical
environments, a key tenet of the open hybrid cloud."
Eric Brewer, vice president of Infrastructure, Google
"At Google we make extensive use of Linux application containers to
support our production systems. They offer high levels of run-time
isolation and deployment flexibility that both reduce the complexity of
managing distributed applications, and increase our overall operating
efficiency. We have been pleased to seed the open source community with
the technologies we use (like Linux Control Groups and LMCTFY, our
application container stack), and are working closely with Red Hat on
contributions to introduce strong application container hosting to the
open source community."
Webcast
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat, will host a
webcast live from Red Hat Summit to discuss today's announcement at 2
p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT) on April 15, 2014. Following remarks, press and
analysts are invited to participate in a question and answer session.
To join the webcast or view the replay after the event, visit: https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/QReg.htm?ShowKey=19002&AffiliateData=pr
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