Integrated container infrastructure platform, powered by Red
Hat Enterprise Linux, designed for scale-out container deployments
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RED HAT SUMMIT - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading
provider of open source solutions, today introduced Red Hat Atomic
Enterprise Platform, an integrated infrastructure platform designed to
run, orchestrate and scale multi-container-based applications and
services. This new offering is available through an early access program.
Based on the world's leading enterprise Linux, Red Hat Atomic Enterprise
Platform provides the foundation for production scale container
deployments, utilizing the same core enabling technologies as Red
Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3, including Docker as a Linux container
format, and Kubernetes for container orchestration. With the addition of
Red Hat Atomic Enterprise Platform, Red Hat will offer the world's most
comprehensive integrated family of open source container-enabling
platforms, from bare-metal Red Hat Enterprise Linux, to a scale out
container orchestration platform, to full Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions - all utilizing the
same core technologies, and enabling container-based applications to be
fully portable across a hybrid cloud fabric.
Containers are quickly making inroads in today's enterprise environment,
with 67 percent of respondents in a recent Red
Hat-sponsored survey of global IT decision makers and professionals
planning production roll-outs of container-based applications over the
next two years. Such organizations are using containers to re-imagine
the way that they deliver applications to increase efficiency,
portability, scalability, and - ultimately - accelerate
time-to-solution. As organizations move toward container implementations
on both cloud-native services and traditional applications, they need a
secure and reliable foundation upon which they can consistently run and
orchestrate multi-container based applications at scale.
Red Hat Atomic Enterprise Platform will provide this foundation for
executing multi-container applications. It is designed to enable
organizations to orchestrate consistently across traditional and
cloud-native applications and scale to meet changing business demands.
Red Hat Atomic Enterprise Platform will offer:
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A managed, scale-out cluster of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host instances - Red Hat's
container-specific operating system built from Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7, allowing for expansive deployments of container-based
applications.
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The Docker container runtime and packaging format - to simplify
the creation and deployment of Linux containers.
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Container orchestration with Kubernetes - which enables
enterprises to deliver modern applications composed of multiple
containers orchestrated automatically across a cluster of hosts,
including software-defined networking and storage plugins.
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Enhanced container security - inherited from Red Hat Enterprise
Linux's military-grade security and the inclusion of powerful security
tools like SELinux.
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Cluster-wide infrastructure services - including log
aggregation and APIs for scaling applications and services.
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An easy on-ramp to full developer and application lifecycle
management capabilities - through the adoption of OpenShift
Enterprise 3, which includes Red Hat Atomic Enterprise Platform.
Commitment to Container Security and Certification
Security and certification of what's inside the container continue to be
of utmost importance to enterprises working with Linux containers,
especially given that today more than 30
percent of verified container images available for public download
are shown to contain known vulnerabilities, like Heartbleed and
Shellshock. This is a concern that Red Hat addressed with the March
launch of Red
Hat container certification, a unique program for validating
container contents and provenance, giving enterprise users confidence
that their certified containers will work seamlessly and securely across
all Red Hat platforms - including Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host,
and now Red Hat Atomic Enterprise Platform, and OpenShift Enterprise 3.
Availability
Red Hat Atomic Enterprise Platform is available via a Red Hat Partner
Early Access Program to existing Red Hat partners and customers as well
as prospects. To request entry to the program, please fill out the form
that is found here.
Webcast
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat, will host a
webcast live from Red Hat Summit to discuss today's announcement at 1:15
p.m. EDT (10:15 a.m. PDT) on June 24, 2015. 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=25839&AffiliateData=.
Supporting Quotes
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat
"The true value of Linux containers does not lie with one or two
containerized applications deployed into production; rather, it's Linux
containers at scales of hundreds or thousands that deliver the promised
innovation of flexible, composable applications. Red Hat Atomic
Enterprise Platform provides the enterprise-ready foundation for these
scale-out deployments, built on the backbone of the world's leading
enterprise Linux platform and backed by Red Hat's certification and
support programs."
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