Red Hat Drives DevOps Adoption and Application Scalability with Latest Version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Industry’s most comprehensive enterprise-grade, Docker- and
Kubernetes-native container platform expands developer productivity and
agility, delivers enhanced capabilities to deploy cloud-scale
applications
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3,
bringing new developer features and deployment scalability, on a secure
enterprise container platform, to improve application delivery across
the hybrid cloud. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform supports
organizations as they build and maintain both cloud-native and
traditional applications, providing a solution they can use across the
application lifecycle, from development to production.
Powered by open industry standards and built on the trusted foundation
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3
offers a single platform delivering Linux container and container
orchestration innovation, along with application development and
deployment capabilities, in a hardened, enterprise-ready product. Red
Hat is a leading contributor to both the Docker and Kubernetes projects
and the latest version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provides
an enterprise version of Kubernetes 1.3 and the Docker container
runtime, built on a foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, helping
customers enjoy the benefits of rapid innovation while retaining the
stability, reliability and security of an enterprise platform.
New features in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 include:
Enhancements to developer productivity and agility
In the modern IT organization, developers need to deliver better
applications and application updates, faster. Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform helps address this need by bringing new automation
capabilities to the application development lifecycle, via new
continuous delivery pipelines based on the Jenkins Pipeline project and
an aggregated developer dashboard that shows a unified view of
application pipelines. Additional new features provide improved A/B
testing automation through granular control of application routing
configurations through OpenShift’s integrated routing and
software-defined networking capabilities.
Deployments at cloud-scale
As the move to the cloud demands more scalability and flexibility in
computing platforms, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 helps
deliver greatly improved platform scalability, a substantial need for
organizations operating mission-critical applications at scale,
supporting up to 1,000 nodes per computing cluster. This enables larger
scale deployments to support not only new applications but also existing
legacy applications in hybrid cloud environments, helping enterprises
retain existing application investments without sacrificing innovation.
Additionally, the inherent Kubernetes capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform can now proactively monitor for and prevent against
resource starvation and unplanned downtime.
Enterprise-grade security
Security is one of the key concerns for organizations adopting Linux
Containers technology. OpenShift provides a secure, enterprise-ready
container platform, which includes support that extends from the Linux
operating system, to the container platform, and to integrated
application services. OpenShift includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the
most trusted and secure enterprise Linux platform, and inherits all of
its security features and ongoing updates. Security features extend to
the Docker container runtime, which is integrated with Security Enhanced
Linux for additional multi-tenant security, and to OpenShift’s
integrated container registry, which allows administrators to manage
their Docker-formatted container images and allows them to control
access and image updates. Additional registry enhancements have been
added to OpenShift Container Platform 3.3, spanning users, teams and
their projects, including the ability to view image details and manage
access to images. OpenShift also provides integrated user authorization
and roles-based access controls for Kubernetes that integrate with
enterprise LDAP-systems, as well as integrated security policies for
container execution, so administrators can control user access,
permissions, quotas and access to pull and run container images all in
one place.
Red Hat’s expanded container portfolio spans private and fully managed
public cloud offerings, supporting the different aspects of the
application development process in one solution that can span multiple
infrastructures and offer containers-as-a-service. These infrastructure
environments include Red Hat OpenShift Container Local, included in the Red
Hat Container Developer Kit, Red Hat OpenShift Container Lab,
OpenShift Online and OpenShift Dedicated. Red Hat’s portfolio of
container-optimized solutions includes storage, application services and
management offerings, in addition to free development tools.
Availability
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 will be available for customer
download on Sept. 27, 2016. The OpenShift Online and OpenShift Dedicated
platforms are scheduled for update shortly following the availability of
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3.
Red Hat Open Innovation Labs: Jump-starting innovation through
containers and DevOps
In April 2016, Red Hat launched Red
Hat Open Innovation Labs as a consulting service that helps
companies integrate people, methodology, and technology to solve
business challenges in an accelerated fashion. In an Open Innovation
Labs engagement, customers work collaboratively in a residency-oriented
environment, using OpenShift Container Platform as a foundation for
applying lean and agile principles to bridge traditional and
contemporary application development. Customers can participate in an
Open Innovation Labs residency on their own site or at a Red Hat site.
Supporting Quote
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
“Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform forms the cornerstone of one of
the industry’s broadest, most comprehensive set of enterprise-grade
container solutions. The latest updates to the platform enable customers
to more fully make use of their container technology investments and
better embrace a DevOps methodology. This gives developers their needed
automation tools and helps operations teams to better scale to meet
customer demand, both with the aim of bringing better applications to
market more quickly.”
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