Red Hat Enhances Cloud-Native Security, Application Consistency with Latest Version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Enterprise Kubernetes platform adds new container security and
compliance features, extends consistent applications and services across
multi-cloud deployments
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 3.6, the latest version of Red Hat’s enterprise-grade
Kubernetes container application platform. Organizations across the
globe, like Copel Telecom, are turning towards cloud-native applications
as a pathway to digital transformation, but critical IT needs like
greater application security, compliance and service consistency must
still be answered. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 helps to
address these challenges with a new PCI-DSS applicability guide and
fine-grained network policy and control, as well as the introduction of
new features designed to deliver consistent applications across hybrid
and multi-cloud deployments.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 offers an enterprise-ready
container platform based on Kubernetes 1.6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
the integrated docker container runtime. By combining these open source
technologies, Red Hat, as a leading contributor to both the docker and
Kubernetes projects, helps customers to more quickly roll out new
services with the support of a stable, reliable and more secure
enterprise container solution powered by the world’s leading enterprise
Linux platform.
Greater security and compliance
Modern, cloud-native
applications require the same level and sensitivity to security as
traditional applications, regardless of the broader innovation that they
present. To help enterprises drive more secure operations at both the
container and the host operating system level, Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform 3.6 introduces several new and enhanced features
designed to further extend enterprise security and compliance procedures
including:
- A PCI DSS product applicability guide, which helps
organizations that accept, process, store or transmit credit card
information understand how the Payment Card Industry Data Security
Standard (PCI DSS) impacts Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and
understand what considerations they should make in adopting the
solution
- Secrets encryption and image signing allows for the encryption
of secrets at rest in backend storage. OpenShift 3.6 offers an ability
for platform administrators to enforce signature usage on image
content in projects, helping to provide greater assurance that the
software tenants running on specific systems is actually allowed to
run there.
- Enhancements to NetworkPolicy (Technology Preview) for greater
and more nuanced control for how applications can talk to each other
and what network resources they expose. NetworkPolicy enables users to
make services available while limiting who can access a given
application on the network.
Consistency for hybrid and multi-cloud footprints
The
enterprise mix of public and private cloud services and physical
resources is not static, as it evolves frequently to meet business need
and new customer demands. Running cloud-native applications across these
footprints requires consistency - these applications are built from
services, which must be accessible across a wide variety of platforms.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 is helping to make these
services findable and consumable through the introduction of:
- Service Broker and Service Catalog(Technology Preview)
helps users to search for, provision and bind application services to
their OpenShift applications, whether those services run in their data
center or public cloud.
- OpenShift Template Broker (Technology Preview) enables users to
select OpenShift Templates through the new Service Catalog user
interface, to deploy multi-container application services in OpenShift.
- Ansible Playbook Broker (Technology Preview) enables the use of
Ansible Playbooks for deploying application services on OpenShift and
to help bind applications together, regardless of whether the services
come from within the OpenShift cluster or elsewhere, including the
public cloud.
- Integrated install of Container Native Storage built with Red Hat
Gluster Storage delivers highly available, three way replicated
storage for the OpenShift registry as well as ready-to-consume
persistent storage on initial installation of OpenShift.
Availability
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 is
available now via the Red Hat Customer Portal.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, vice president and
general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
“Cloud-native applications
are not immune from the ‘mundane’ needs of traditional applications,
including greater security and compliance, and face an additional
challenge in providing a consistent developer experience across cloud
footprints. The latest version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
adds new tools and resources to help meet security and compliance needs,
including network controls for detailed control of networked resources,
along with the emerging capability to deliver services across cloud
offerings consistently.”
Nilceu Romero Silva, CIO, Copel Telecom
“OpenShift gives us
a flexible, automated platform to increase application control and
management. It facilitates the tracking of resources used and the costs
related to each department, and also helps to accelerate the delivery of
applications. With Red Hat, we built a development and production
environments that can handle even the most critical application, with
higher availability and lower operational costs. Now, we currently plan
to migrate 100 percent of our applications and have all new applications
developed in our Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform (JBoss EAP) infrastructure.”
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