Latest Version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Joins Infrastructure and Services Across Hybrid Cloud Environments
Enterprise Kubernetes platform enables application creation from
diverse services available on Amazon Web Services and on-premise to ease
administrative challenges and accelerate hybrid cloud innovation
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today launched Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7, the
latest version of Red Hat’s enterprise-grade Kubernetes container
application platform. As application complexity and cloud
incompatibility loom, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 helps IT
organizations to build and manage applications that use services from
the datacenter to the public cloud. The newest iteration of the
industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform includes
native integrations with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Brokers that
enable developers to bind services across AWS and on-premise resources
to create modern applications while providing a consistent, open
standards-based foundation to drive business evolution.
Cloud-native enterprise applications can consume services from multiple
locations, including from the data center and multiple public clouds.
Also, according
to 451 Research, more than 60 percent of enterprises implementing
cloud strategies are using two (or more) different cloud environments --
on-premises private clouds, hosted private cloud, and multiple public
clouds. Increasingly, modern applications built for digital
transformation rely on a mesh of loosely-coupled component and
microservices, making consistency across cloud providers a significant
challenge, but one that Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 helps
to address.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform unites developers and IT operations
on a single platform to build, deploy, and manage applications
consistently across hybrid cloud infrastructures. This helps businesses
achieve greater value by delivering modern and traditional applications
with shorter development cycles and increased efficiencies. The platform
is built on open source innovation and industry standards, including Red
Hat Enterprise Linux and Kubernetes, and is trusted by many companies
around the world.
Bringing hybrid cloud applications to life
With modern applications reliant upon disparate services and components
from on-premise and cloud-based resources, being able to effectively
stitch these pieces together in a consistent manner can be critical to
delivering business innovation. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7
helps to answer this need with the OpenShift Service Catalog, a
fully-supported feature that enables IT organizations to connect any
application running on the OpenShift platform to a wide variety of
services, regardless of where that service runs.
The OpenShift Service Catalog helps users search for, provision, and
bind application services to OpenShift applications while providing a
more secure and consistent way for administrators to provide new
services to end users. This helps to free development teams from having
to deeply understand service creation or consumption, and places more
emphasis on building applications to deliver business value rather than
sourcing services.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 will ship with OpenShift
Template Broker, which turns any OpenShift Template into a
discoverable service for application developers using OpenShift.
OpenShift Templates are lists of OpenShift objects that can be
implemented within specific parameters, making it easier for IT
organizations to deploy reusable, composite applications comprised of
microservices.
Also included with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 is OpenShift
Ansible Broker for provisioning and managing services through the
OpenShift Service Catalog by using Ansible to define OpenShift Services.
OpenShift Ansible Broker enables users to provision services both on and
off the OpenShift platform, helping to simplify and automate complex
workflows involving varied services and applications across on-premise
and cloud-based resources.
Production support for Service Catalog in OpenShift Container Platform
builds upon Red Hat’s strong hybrid cloud technology portfolio, which
includes:
- Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes, a collection of
supported runtimes to lower the entry barrier for building and
deploying cloud-native applications (now in beta).
- Red Hat Container-Native Storage 3.6, an enterprise-grade
software-defined storage solution built from Red Hat Gluster Storage
that serves storage out of containers, both on-premises and in the
cloud.
AWS Service integration
First announced at Red Hat Summit 2017, Red Hat now makes popular AWS
services accessible directly from Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
This integration enables AWS users to configure and deploy these
services from OpenShift, and provides a single path of enterprise-grade
support for customer needs.
At launch, accessible AWS services through Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 3.7 include:
-
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
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Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS)
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Amazon Route 53
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Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3)
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Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
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Amazon ElastiCache
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Amazon Redshift
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Amazon DynamoDB
-
Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
Additional features
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 also adds additional features
and capabilities to help improve user experience and enhance platform
security. These features include:
- Network Policy is now out of Technology Preview and generally
supported, enabling project administrators to apply network rules and
policies to inbound traffic for specific OpenShift pods.
- Prometheus (Tech Preview) is being introduced for monitoring
and alerting in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7, building the
popular monitoring solution (and CNCF project) directly into the
OpenShift platform.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
“Modern,
cloud-native applications are not monolithic stacks with clear-cut needs
and resources; to more effectively embrace modern applications, IT
organizations need to re-imagine how their developers find, provision
and consume critical services and resources across a hybrid
architecture. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 addresses these
needs head-on by providing hybrid access to services through its service
catalog, enabling developers to more easily find and bind necessary
services to their business-critical applications--no matter where these
services exist--and adding close integration with AWS to further
streamline cloud-native development and deployment.”
Matt Yanchyshyn, director, Partner Solution Architecture, Amazon Web
Services, Inc.
“We are excited about our collaboration with Red
Hat and the general availability of the first AWS Service Brokers in Red
Hat OpenShift. The ability to seamlessly configure and deploy a range of
AWS services from within OpenShift will allow our customers to benefit
from AWS’s rapid pace of innovation, both on-premises and in the cloud.”
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