Lufthansa Technik Builds its Digital Future with Red Hat
Red Hat’s container and hybrid cloud technologies running on
Microsoft Azure deliver the foundation for Lufthansa Technik’s
Application Services
SAN FRANCISCO--RED HAT SUMMIT 2018--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Lufthansa Technik, a leading provider of
aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services, has moved to a hybrid
cloud infrastructure based on Red Hat’s enterprise-grade open source
technologies running on Azure, Microsoft’s public cloud. Collaborating
with Red Hat, Lufthansa Technik created AVIATAR - an open platform
helping to enable aviation industry customers to better work together
and provide digital offerings designed to improve the overall customer
experience. With Red Hat’s Linux
container and automation
technologies paired with agile DevOps
processes, Lufthansa Technik can develop and deploy new applications
more quickly and foster integration between internal infrastructure and
third-party solutions.
As digital
transformation begins to take hold in the enterprise world, the
aviation industry faces increasing challenges, from the growing
technical capabilities of modern aircraft to evolving, complex customer
needs. Recognizing the need for innovation to remain competitive in this
changing environment, Lufthansa Technik sought to be at the forefront of
digital aviation technologies that could improve customer experience, as
well as create new business opportunities.
The company seeks to do so with AVIATAR, a new product division
developed from scratch. AVIATAR is an open and collaborative platform
for partners, clients and developers that offers a variety of digital
products and services by gathering multiple apps in one place. AVIATAR
was designed to help make airline operations safer and more reliable,
helping to lead to fewer delayed or canceled flights, fewer technical
diversions and a smoother travel experience for passengers.
Lufthansa Technik set up a hybrid
cloud environment using both Azure and on-premise infrastructure to
run AVIATAR's application services. This enables the company to more
quickly deploy new components and provide a public
cloud option for AVIATAR users. Along with a software stack from Red
Hat, Lufthansa Technik is embracing an open and vendor-independent
architecture with a vision for a multicloud
scenario. Lifthansa Technik’s AVIATAR platform was created using:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the flexible operating system,
providing a robust, enterprise-grade Linux platform.
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, running on Azure,designed
to support the AVIATAR’s agile, DevOps
approach of continuous improvement. Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform also helps Lufthansa Technik to build, deploy, run and
integrate the components of the new infrastructure, including cloud-native
applications and microservices.
- Container-native storage by Red Hat based on Red Hat Gluster
Storage. Container-native storageprovides flexible, scalable,
cluster-based software-defined
storage optimized for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
designed to more efficiently meet data needs with minimal manual
provisioning.
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP)
provides the core back-end foundation for applications available to
end-users through the AVIATAR platform, and helps accelerate
development of enterprise Java applications through standardization
and capabilities designed for ease of use.
- Red Hat Data Grid replaces traditional relational databases to
more quickly store and retrieve information in-memory, and enable
computation and querying on that data at the same time.
- Red Hat JBoss Fuse enables integration of internal and
third-party data storage sources.
- Red Hat 3scale API Management gives developers the ability to
self-manage its application programming interfaces (APIs).
- Red Hat Ansible Tower helps to create and run reusable
infrastructure code and automate provisioning tasks for Azure, Red Hat
Gluster Storage and other infrastructure components.
This migration has better enabled Lufthansa Technik to think differently
about its digital future. From automation to storage to self-service
provisioning, the capabilities provided by Red Hat software help
Lufthansa Technik’s development and operations teams work together more
effectively. Data scientists, airplane engineers and developers are able
to collaborate on internal and third-party applications for material
planners, engineers, and other end users, which can help them better
predict events and, as a result, help to save time and money.
Lufthansa Technik’s IT and developer teams can now use modern practices
and processes, from DevOps and automation to modular and
microservices-based infrastructure components to more quickly iterate on
new ideas and can now bring applications to market in weeks instead of
months or years. Writing new applications can now be done without having
to wait for any provisioned infrastructure, which can enable developers
to start delivering business value in a few days. Underscoring its
success with open source infrastructure, Lufthansa Technik earned a 2018 Red
Hat Innovation Award.
Supporting Quotes
Matthew Hicks, senior vice president, Engineering, Red Hat
“Red Hat is excited to help enable Lufthansa Technik’s digital
transformation and its move towards a hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Creating a new customer-centric digital portfolio which can cater to the
demands of its aviation industry customers required a flexible
architecture and a new way of working. Red Hat’s technologies are at the
core of this organizational shift: Lufthansa Technik is offering an open
technology platform that invites collaboration. Using its new agile,
flexible hybrid cloud infrastructure, the company can focus on work that
supports its primary goal: improving the experience of airline
passengers.”
Johannes Hansen, senior director application development & user
experience, Digital Fleet Solutions, Lufthansa Technik AG
“Our Red Hat stack on Microsoft Azure, a proven solution for cloud
services, has enabled us become faster and create a hybrid cloud
infrastructure that meets our needs. With Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform on Microsoft Azure, for example, we can start implementing a
new application immediately, without waiting for any infrastructure,
allowing us to produce results in just a few days and have a minimum
viable product after just several weeks.”
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