Red Hat Brings Kubernetes to New Application Workloads with Latest Version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform expands application support,
enhances platform security, while adding new innovations
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 3.5, the latest version of Red Hat’s
enterprise-grade, Kubernetes-native container application platform.
While enabling enterprises like Swiss
Railways, Produban
and Pioneer
to actively embrace cloud-native applications in mission-critical roles,
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 also helps enterprises retain
existing IT investments through expanded support for traditional
business applications. This dual application support is provided by new
security enhancements as well as several innovations emerging from the
Kubernetes upstream community.
As a leading contributor to both the docker and Kubernetes open source
projects, Red Hat provides an enterprise-ready container platform based
on Kubernetes 1.5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the integrated docker
container runtime through the latest version of Red Hat’s container
application platform. This helps customers to more quickly roll out new
services with the support of a stable, reliable and more secure
enterprise platform powered by the world’s leading enterprise Linux
platform.
Expanded application support
While cloud-native application strategies are gaining traction in the
enterprise for building mission-critical services, enterprises need to
continue to use existing IT investments. Existing applications should
not be left behind, and companies can use a single, more streamlined way
to manage both “legacy” and containerized applications. OpenShift
provides a single platform designed to support both traditional and
cloud-native applications, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5
expands this broad application support with new capabilities, including:
- StatefulSets - While Kubernetes already supports stateful
services with features like integrated storage orchestration, many
traditional stateful services like SQL databases, messaging queues and
other “pet” services require more capabilities to manage the
configuration of each service instance in a cluster. Kubernetes
StatefulSets, now available in Tech Preview, can bring the same
powerful Kubernetes automation features for scaling and declarative
health management to traditional stateful services so they can run in
containers, instead of directly on traditional virtual machines or
physical servers.
- Cloud-native Java - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
already provides a platform for running traditional Java EE
applications, which includes integrated enterprise middleware services
from the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio. Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 provides a new Java container image
for cloud native workloads, enabling enterprise developers to focus on
coding their new cloud-native Java applications while the platform,
through OpenShift source-to-image (S2I), handles the compiling,
building and assembling of the final, runnable artifact.
- Expanded developer toolbox - The latest version of Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform also supports Red Hat Software
Collections, curated versions of the latest, stable developer tools
and languages, including updates for Redis, MySQL, PHP and more.
Bolstered container security
A leading contributor to upstream container communities like Kubernetes
and docker, Red Hat is also seeking to drive container adoption within
the enterprise by emphasizing greater IT security across the platform.
While Linux forms the foundation of all Linux container platforms, Red
Hat Enterprise Linux, the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform,
provides the trusted backbone for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
3.5.
To use containers in production environments, organizations need to
consider multiple levels of container security. This includes container
isolation at the kernel and supported container images built from
trusted content, as well as cluster-level concerns like limiting
platform access to authorized users and allowing them to deploy their
applications in a more secure manner. The latest version of Red Hat’s
container application platform continues to deliver a hardened, enterprise-ready
Kubernetes platform, with new features that provide:
- Enhanced certificate management- Certificates in Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform help to allow only authorized users and
platform components are able to take actions in the Kubernetes
cluster. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 includes
enhancements for managing certificates, such as the ability to provide
warnings based on certificates expiring and for a rolling refresh of
security certificates.
- Improved Secrets management - Secrets are used to manage
sensitive information like passwords when deploying applications in
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5, with new support added for
more granularity in determining who owns a given Secret.
Powering innovation
As one of the fastest growing enterprise open source projects on Github,
the Kubernetes community is able to deliver new innovations at a rapid
pace. A leader in bringing open source projects to enterprise customers,
Red Hat maintains an important role in not only driving new innovations
in container orchestration but also making these innovations consumable
for production workloads. Red Hat also helps deliver a level of
standardization to Kubernetes for business-grade deployments, driving
features that enable the orchestration platform to run across the hybrid
cloud, from physical servers and virtualized environments to private
cloud platforms multiple public cloud providers.
To learn more about how enterprises are using Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform to help drive innovation while retaining existing IT
investments, attend Red
Hat Summit 2017 and the OpenShift
Commons Gathering at Red Hat Summit to hear from Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform customers, including leading financial institutions,
government agencies and large commercial organizations.
Availability
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 is available now via the Red
Hat Customer Portal.
Supporting Quote
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
“While
containerized applications and associated infrastructure present a
vision of enterprise IT’s future, traditional applications still
function as the workhorse for modern businesses and should not be left
behind as enterprises add next-generation services to their technology
mix. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 provides a
Kubernetes-based platform for traditional and cloud-native applications
with the tools, greater security features and capabilities designed to
retain existing IT investments while planning for future needs and
business growth.”
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