Helping enterprises modernize their application delivery and move
towards DevOps
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the general availability of OpenShift
Enterprise 2.1, the next generation of its award-winning, on-premise
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. Enhancements in OpenShift
Enterprise 2.1 are aimed to further enable DevOps practices through the
delivery of new capabilities within the PaaS platform that bring
development and operations closer together. With OpenShift Enterprise
2.1, Red Hat is introducing consolidated log and metrics management,
offering new versions of application programming languages, increasing
application availability with a new concept of zones and regions,
exposing a new plugin interface that will allow operations to better
integrate existing policy orchestration into the PaaS platform, allowing
new ways to integrate and work with large numbers of groups within
corporate organizations, and releasing new intelligence into the
platform around the automatic remedy of common application service
issues. OpenShift's scalable and open source architecture enables faster
developments with decreased delivery time for enterprise business
applications that are fully integrated into datacenter best practices.
Since its introduction
in November 2012, OpenShift Enterprise has focused on delivering
innovation through four product releases designed to meet expanding
customer requirements for a cloud-based application platform. OpenShift
Enterprise 2.1 aims to drive PaaS innovation further through rapid
feature introduction on a platform that provides a trusted and stable
architecture that developers have come to expect from an
enterprise-class PaaS.
OpenShift Enterprise 2.1 continues Red Hat's open enterprise PaaS
leadership with several new features, including:
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Updated MySQL 5.5, Python 3.3*, PHP 5.4, and MongoDB 2.4* cartridges
with OpenShift Enterprise entitlement that allows OpenShift to offer
proven security and bug fixes including technical support for both the
platform and the content it provides.
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New gathering and consolidation method for platform and application
logs. Plus a new way to gather and store key performance attributes
from the operating system and application services.
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Ability for applications provided by OpenShift to intelligently span
infrastructure across zones within regions, increasing the resiliency
of the services provided by OpenShift.
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Plugin interface that allows OpenShift to integrate with complex
decision automation policies a datacenter might need to follow due to
regulatory, ITIL, or change management facilities.
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Introduction of teams as an interface for LDAP group integration with
OpenShift user management features.
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The release of the watchman daemon that aids in the automation of
common remedies to help administrators scale to the PaaS platform in a
more efficient manner.
* Scheduled for release shortly after OpenShift Enterprise 2.1 in a
2.1.x release.
These additions to the OpenShift Enterprise platform provide
organizations with an enterprise application platform, supporting the
Red Hat JBoss Middleware solutions, all presented in an automated
fashion backed with the natural elasticity of PaaS. Red Hat is applying
its unique combination of skills and expertise in open source,
enterprise middleware, and cloud architectures to deliver key
technologies to its users through an open hybrid cloud portfolio of
products.
OpenShift Enterprise is built on a proven stack of open-source Red Hat
technologies, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat JBoss
Enterprise Application Platform, and OpenShift Origin (the upstream code
that powers both OpenShift Enterprise and OpenShift Online). OpenShift
reflects Red Hat's deep commitment to the developer experience,
automating much of the provisioning and systems management of the
application platform stack in a way that enables IT teams to more easily
meet growing business demands for new application services. OpenShift
provides an on-demand, elastic, scalable and fully configured
application development, testing and hosting environment for application
developers so that they can focus on coding new services. OpenShift
leverages the industry-proven security of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) subsystem, and the lightweight, Linux
Container technology provided by OpenShift Gears. OpenShift offers an
architecture that enables it to be a platform for more complex
application services through continuous integration and delivery
practices.
Availability
OpenShift Enterprise 2.1 is currently available for download for
customers in North America, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and
select Asia and Latin America regions, including Australia, ASEAN,
Japan, Argentina and Brazil, respectively.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
More and more enterprise adopters are evaluating PaaS, and they are
looking for a proven solution that can drive agility, increase
efficiency and integrate with their existing investments. OpenShift is
designed to fill these needs. Its enterprise capabilities, bolstered by
a growing community of developers, allow us to deliver a powerful cloud
application platform to meet developer demands, all based on a proven,
open-source stack."
Brett Adam, senior vice president, Platform, CA Technologies
"We chose OpenShift as the PaaS foundation for cloud offerings thanks to
its flexible, open source architecture, its minimal-overhead application
programming model, and its excellent support for DevOps. Our teams are
finding OpenShift to be enterprise-grade, scalable, stable, and
productive."
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