Red Hat Breaks Down Barriers to Enterprise Container Adoption with Dynamic Storage Provisioning in Latest Version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Enterprise Kubernetes platform designed to simplify storage for
containerized applications, streamline multi-tenant deployments in
hybrid cloud computing environments
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 Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform 3.4, the latest version of its container application
platform. Red Hat helps organizations like Discovery Health and Pioneer
better embrace new technologies, such as Linux containers, that can
deliver innovative business applications and services without
sacrificing existing IT investments. Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 3.4 provides a platform for this innovation while retaining a
focus on existing mission-critical workloads, offering dynamic storage
provisioning for both traditional and cloud-native applications and
multi-tenant capabilities that can support multiple applications, teams
and deployment processes in a hybrid cloud environment.
As a leading contributor to both the docker and Kubernetes projects, the
latest version of Red Hat’s container application platform provides an
enterprise-ready version of Kubernetes 1.4 and the docker container
runtime. This helps customers to more quickly roll out new services with
the backing of a stable, reliable and more secure enterprise platform
powered by the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the world’s
leading enterprise Linux platform.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 integrates the architectures,
processes and services to enable delivery of critical business
applications, from traditional and legacy applications to cloud-native
and containerized workloads. New capabilities in the latest version
include:
- Next-level container storage with support for dynamic storage
provisioning, allowing multiple storage types to be provisioned, and
multi-tier storage exposure via quality-of-service labels in
Kubernetes. Container-native storage, enabled by Red Hat Gluster
Storage, which now supports dynamic provisioning and push button
deployment, enhances the user experience running stateful and
stateless applications on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. It
makes the consumption and provisioning of application storage easier
for developers to use. With Red Hat Gluster Storage, OpenShift
customers get the added benefit of a software-defined, highly
available and scalable storage solution that works across on-premises
and public cloud environments and one that can be more cost efficient
than traditional hardware-based or cloud-only storage services.
- Enhanced multi-tenancy through more simplified management of
projects, a feature powered by Kubernetes namespaces, in a single
Kubernetes cluster. Multiple developer teams, applications and
lifecycle environments can run fully isolated and share resources on a
single Kubernetes cluster in OpenShift Container Platform. Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 adds the capacity to search for
projects, project details, manage project membership and more via a
more streamlined web console, making it easier for users to work with
multiple projects across dispersed teams. These multi-tenancy
capabilities enable enterprise IT organizations to provide application
development teams with their own cloud-like application environment to
build and deploy customer-facing or internal applications using DevOps
processes that are isolated from one another.
- New hybrid cloud reference architectures for running Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform on OpenStack, VMware, Amazon Web Services
(AWS), Google Cloud Engine and Microsoft Azure. These guides help walk
a user through deploying a stable, fault-tolerant, production-grade
environment that uses the power of Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform across public and private clouds, virtual machines and bare
metal.
Forming the orchestration backbone of Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 3.4 is Kubernetes 1.4, which is maintained by the open source
Kubernetes Project community. Kubernetes 1.4 features alpha support for
expanded cluster federation APIs, a feature that can enable multiple
clusters federated across a hybrid environment and a capability that Red
Hat views as a key component to enabling hybrid cloud deployments in the
enterprise. As with all of Red Hat’s enterprise-ready Linux container
solutions, the latest version of OpenShift offers community innovation
as hardened, production-grade features.
Beyond the software, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 is also
backed by Red Hat’s award-winning global support, helping enterprises to
take advantage of the innovation offered by Kubernetes while knowing
that the technology is supported by on-call technical expertise.
Supporting Linux containers across the hybrid cloud
Red Hat’s expanded container portfolio spans private and fully managed
public cloud offerings, supporting traditional and cloud-native
applications, and different aspects of the application development
process in one solution that can span multiple infrastructures and
enable containers-as-a-service. This includes local, lab and production
environments running in the data center or public cloud, managed by
customers or fully managed by Red Hat. Additionally, Red Hat also offers
a suite of no-cost developer-focused container tools, including a
localized offering of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, through the Red
Hat Container Developer Kit. Red Hat’s container-optimized solutions
span storage, application services and management technologies, in
addition to these no-cost development tools.
Availability
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 is available today via the Red
Hat Customer Portal. Red Hat Cloud Suite will also feature the latest
container application platform update as a pre-integrated offering
alongside Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Virtualization and Red Hat
CloudForms.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
“While Linux containers represent an innovative future for enterprise
applications, traditional and legacy applications remain critical to the
modern business. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 can meet the
needs of these existing applications while providing the tools and
services to drive cloud-native application creation and deployment. The
latest version of our flagship container application platform goes a
step beyond simply creating and deploying applications by addressing the
growing storage needs of both stateful and stateless applications across
the hybrid cloud, allowing for coexistence of modern and future-forward
workloads on a single, enterprise-ready platform.”
Neil Adamson, CIO, The Vitality Group, a subsidiary of Discovery
“The Vitality program is a global initiative and rewards program that
encourages healthy behavior for insurance customers. This program is a
key component of how we envision the future of health, but advanced
services for our customers can only be delivered by embracing
next-generation technologies, particularly those provided through the
open source communities that drive Linux containers, Kubernetes and IoT.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provides us with the best of these
communities while still delivering a stable, more secure foundation;
we're able to reap the benefits of open source innovation while
lessening the risks often inherent to emerging technologies.”
Kazuhiro Miyamoto, General Manager, Development Department,
Information Service Platform Center, Product Management Division,
Pioneer Corporation
“We have adopted a cloud environment based on Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform and IBM cloud infrastructure services to assist the
development and operation of our latest car navigation system, ‘Super
Route Finder.’ As the Super Route Finder also supports the latest models
released in 2016, there was concern about the growing concentration of
access requests from thousands to tens-of-thousands units. With the
expectation of the numbers of users and various kinds of containers
increasing, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform enables us to implement
scalable allocation of containers, and readily manage respective
container applications more effectively.”
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