Red Hat and Microsoft Co-Develop the First Red Hat OpenShift Jointly Managed Service on a Public Cloud
Microsoft and Red Hat expand partnership around hybrid cloud,
container management and developer productivity
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) and Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT) today
expanded their alliance to empower enterprise developers to run
container-based applications across Microsoft Azure and on-premises.
With this collaboration, the companies will introduce the first jointly
managed OpenShift offering in the public cloud, combining the power of
Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise
Kubernetes platform, and Azure, Microsoft’s public cloud.
"Gartner predicts that, by 2020, more than 50% of global organizations
will be running containerized applications in production, up from less
than 20% today."1
With organizations turning to containerized applications and Kubernetes
to drive digital transformation and help address customer, competitive,
and market demands, they need solutions to easily orchestrate and manage
these applications, across the public cloud and on-premises. Red Hat
OpenShift on Azure will be jointly engineered, and designed to
reduce the complexity of container management for customers. As the
companies’ preferred offering for hybrid container workflows for our
joint customers, Red Hat and Microsoft will jointly manage the solution
for customers, with support from both companies.
In addition to being a fully managed service, Red Hat OpenShift on
Azure, will bring enterprise developers:
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Flexibility: Freely move applications between on-premises environments
and Azure using OpenShift, which offers a consistent container
platform across the hybrid cloud.
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Speed: Connect faster, and with enhanced security, between Azure and
on-premises OpenShift clusters with hybrid networking.
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Productivity: Access Azure services like Azure Cosmos DB, Azure
Machine Learning, and Azure SQL DB, making developers more productive.
When customers choose Red Hat OpenShift on Azure, they will receive a
managed service backed by operations and support services from both
companies. Support extends across their containerized applications,
operating systems, infrastructure and the orchestrator. Further, Red
Hat’s and Microsoft’s sales organizations will work together to bring
the companies’ extensive technology platforms to customers, equipping
them to build more cloud-native applications and modernize existing
applications.
Customers can more easily move their applications between on-premises
environments and Microsoft Azure because they are leveraging a
consistent container platform in OpenShift across both footprints of the
hybrid cloud.
The expanded collaboration between Microsoft and Red Hat will also
include:
- Enabling the hybrid cloud with full support for Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform on-premises and on Microsoft Azure Stack,
offering a consistent on- and off-premises foundation for the
development, deployment, and management of cloud-native applications
on Microsoft infrastructure. This provides a pathway for customers to
pair the power of the Azure public cloud with the flexibility and
control of OpenShift on-premises on Azure Stack.
- Multi-architecture container management that spans both Windows
Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux containers. Red Hat OpenShift on
Microsoft Azure will consistently support Windows containers alongside
Red Hat Enterprise Linux containers, offering a uniform orchestration
platform that spans the leading enterprise platform providers.
- More ways to harness data with expanded integration of
Microsoft SQL Server across the Red Hat OpenShift landscape. This will
soon include SQL Server as a Red Hat certified container for
deployment on Red Hat OpenShift on Azure and Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform across the hybrid cloud, including Azure Stack.
- More ways for developers to use Microsoft tools with Red Hat as
Visual Studio Enterprise and Visual Studio Professional subscribers
will get Red Hat Enterprise Linux credits. For the first time,
developers can work with .NET, Java, or the most popular open source
frameworks on this single, and supported, platform.
Availability
Red Hat OpenShift on Azure is anticipated to be available in preview in
the coming months. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux on Azure and Azure Stack are currently available.
Supporting Quotes
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat
“Very few organizations are able to fully silo their IT operations into
a solely on-premises or public cloud footprint; instead, it’s a hybrid
mixture of these environments that presents a path towards digital
transformation. By extending our partnership with Microsoft, we’re able
to offer the industry’s most comprehensive Kubernetes platform on a
leading public cloud, providing the ability for customers to more easily
harness innovation across the hybrid cloud without sacrificing
production stability.”
Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, Cloud and Enterprise Group,
Microsoft
“Microsoft and Red Hat are aligned in our vision to deliver simplicity,
choice and flexibility to enterprise developers building cloud-native
applications. Today, we’re combining both companies’ leadership in
Kubernetes, hybrid cloud and enterprise operating systems to simplify
the complex process of container management, with an industry-first
solution on Azure.”
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1. Gartner, Inc., Smarter with Gartner, “6
Best Practices for Creating a Container Platform Strategy,”
Contributor: Christy Pettey, Oct. 31, 2017.
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