Red Hat Brings Cloud-Native Capabilities to Software Partner Ecosystem with Kubernetes Operators
Kubernetes Operators to help software companies more easily deliver
Red Hat OpenShift-tested and validated cloud-native applications and
services across hybrid and multicloud footprints
SAN FRANCISCO – RED HAT SUMMIT 2018--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today introduced Kubernetes Operators to the Red Hat
OpenShift ecosystem, providing a simplified path for software partners
to ultimately deliver tested and validated Kubernetes
applications on the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise
Kubernetes platform. Developed with the Operator
Framework open source toolkit, an Operator helps to remove the
barriers to building complex, stateful applications for Kubernetes,
resulting in services designed to “just work” across any cloud where
Kubernetes runs.
Operators on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform launches with broad
industry support. At launch, more than 60 software partners have
committed support for the Kubernetes Operator Framework initiative
introduced by Red Hat.
For software companies, building and maintaining cloud-native
applications today is not a simple task - they must address
significant complexities during the initial build and provide
maintenance across siloed cloud footprints. Helping to address these
challenges are Operators, a method of packaging, deploying and managing
a Kubernetes application. A Kubernetes application is an application
that is both deployed on Kubernetes and managed using the Kubernetes
APIs and kubectl tooling. Kubernetes Operators simplify application
development for Kubernetes platforms by abstracting away complexities
and coding human operational knowledge into applications, creating
services that can function without human intervention.
This service automation can improve the lives of both developers and
operations teams, enabling Kubernetes applications to function like
cloud services, from self-healing and self-provisioning capabilities to
easier management and maintenance at production-scale. Built from the
Operator Framework, applications can be instantly updated across all
footprints simultaneously, limiting IT downtime and easing the burden of
maintaining large clusters of Kubernetes applications.
Kubernetes Operators and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provides a common foundation for
cloud-native operations, pacing the needs of modern enterprise IT just
as Red Hat Enterprise Linux did for traditional datacenter operations.
Red Hat OpenShift pairs the innovation of Kubernetes with Red Hat’s
expertise in delivering enhanced IT security and enterprise-grade
support, resulting in a comprehensive, industry-leading Kubernetes
platform to meet modern enterprise needs that is backed by a robust
software partner ecosystem.
Red Hat is working on a future enhancement that will enable software
partners to test and validate their Operators for Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform against Red Hat OpenShift. This will help to provide
assurances that the application is part of Red Hat’s expansive and
supported ecosystem, and gives software companies the knowledge that
their application will work as intended on any Red Hat OpenShift
instance. This will hold true across hybrid and multicloud
footprints, such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services,
and more. Customers will gain more confidence in production-grade,
cloud-native applications, while Red Hat software partners will gain a
more manageable, easily-maintained offering that lives where their end
users need it.
The Red Hat ecosystem advantage
Red Hat has a long history of building successful, collaborative
software ecosystems based upon open source infrastructure, highlighted
by the robust partner networks surrounding Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
Red Hat OpenStack Platform. Eventually, Red Hat plans to extend Red
Hat Container Certification with support for Operators as tested and
validated Kubernetes applications on Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat is
already able to provide the world’s largest commercially supported
ecosystem for cloud-native
applications, with the intent for Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform to become the most easily-managed application platform across
the hybrid
cloud.
At launch, the software providers that have committed support for Red
Hat’s Kubernetes Operators initiative are highlighted by Black Duck
Software, Couchbase, CrunchyData, and Dynatrace, each of which will
demonstrate their work with Operators on-stage at Red Hat Summit 2018.
Other partners committing support include but are not limited to:
6Fusion;
Aporeto; Aqua Security; Avi Networks; Avocado Systems; Banzai Cloud;
BOLT; CA Technologies; Catalogic; Cockroach Labs; CollabNet; CoScale;
CyberArk; Datadog; DeployHub; DSApps; Entando; EXFO; F5; FinTECHeando;
Guardicore; Hazelcast; Hedvig; HTBase; Infinidat; InfluxData; Instana;
InterSystems; Kaazing; Layered Insight; LINBIT; Lucep; Mist.io; Nagios;
nearForm; NetApp; NetScout; NeuVector; New Relic; NuoDB; OpenIAM;
Outcold Solutions; Portworx; PrimeKey; ProfitStor; Pure Storage; Redis
Labs; Rocket.Chat; ScaleOut Software; SL Corporation; Snapt;
SolutionSoft; Sonatype; Sysdig; Tremolo Security; Turbonomic; Twistlock;
Univa; Virtuozzo; Waldur; XebiaLabs; YumaWorks; and Zabbix.
Availability
Kubernetes Operators for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform are
initially available for Red Hat software partners as part of a new
Kubernetes Operator Early Access Program.
Press Conference
Red Hat executives, including Paul Cormier, the company’s president of
Products and Technologies, will host a webcast live from Red Hat Summit
to discuss this and today's other announcements at 2 p.m. ET. Following
remarks, press and analysts are invited to participate in a question and
answer session.
To join the webcast or view the replay after the event, visit: https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/QReg/ShowKey=51468
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, vice president and
general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
“The introduction of
Operator Framework, paired with Red Hat’s comprehensive Kubernetes
platform, is designed to make the underlying footprint of enterprise IT
consistent: Kubernetes Operators enable the creation of applications
that simply work across the common fabric of Kubernetes, no matter where
the deployment actually lives. Red Hat intends to use our vast technical
expertise in Kubernetes and cloud-native application and service
development to help our software partner ecosystem and customers build
their own specific Kubernetes Operators which can then be readily
deployed and supported at-scale on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.”
Ali Siddiqui, general manager, Agile Operations, CA Technologies
“CA
has been a long-term partner of Red Hat and we are thrilled to see the
software vendor ecosystem rally in support of helping to build an
easily-managed application platform for the hybrid cloud. Our monitoring
solutions complement Red Hat OpenShift platform by delivering insights
into application performance to help customers build better apps faster.
We are excited to be a part of the Red Hat Operator Early Access Program
and look forward to working with Red Hat to build the future of
cloud-native applications for our customers.”
Phil de la Motte, senior director, Business Development, Cloud
Alliances, F5
“Certifying BIG-IP solutions with Red Hat
OpenShift, Ansible, and OpenStack has driven significant value for our
joint customers. Red Hat and F5 collaborate to build well-tested and
optimized solutions for delivery of applications and services in
multiple cloud environments. We are excited to participate in Kubernetes
Operators to further enable organizations to deploy, manage, and
configure their clouds autonomously. These are exciting times and F5 is
proud to be part of this innovative breakthrough."
Luca Ravazzolo, product manager, InterSystems
“Building
stateful applications with containers and adding the complexity of smart
schedulers and orchestrators like Kubernetes can be tough. Data
durability is probably the most difficult issue to tackle as it covers a
variety of important data areas that must all be robust, provide
impeccable resiliency and be consistently repeatable. Red Hat is
addressing the maintenance need in the cloud with application-specific
controllers designed to extend the Kubernetes API to launch, manage and
tweak composite, stateful applications like those built on the IRIS Data
Platform from InterSystems.”
Garrett Mueller, senior technical director, Open Ecosystem, NetApp
“Kubernetes
Operators enable the creation of intelligent applications that simply
work across the common fabric of the cloud, no matter where the
deployment of the Kubernetes cluster actually lives. As the data
authority for hybrid cloud, NetApp has been collaborating with Red Hat
to build well-tested and certified products for over a decade resulting
in enterprise-class supportability for customers. We look forward to
continue working with Red Hat to build intelligent and self-managing
applications across all public and private clouds."
Vikram Saksena, office of the CTO, NETSCOUT
“Kubernetes
Operators enable the creation of intelligent applications that simply
work across the common fabric of the cloud, no matter where the
deployment of the Kubernetes cluster actually lives. NETSCOUT has
collaborated with Red Hat to deliver certified service assurance
solutions resulting in enterprise-class supportability for our
customers. As customers continue to scale their cloud deployments with
complete visibility into application performance, automating the entire
life-cycle management process becomes very critical. We look forward to
continuing our work with Red Hat to deliver intelligent and
fully-automated service assurance solutions across all the public and
private clouds."
Manish Gupta, chief marketing officer, Redis Labs
“With the
accelerating pace of innovation and the agility delivered by cloud
computing, enterprises are adopting a new generation of tools,
processes, and platforms to enhance overall efficiency. As a result,
we’re seeing the emergence of an open hybrid cloud ecosystem based on a
multitude of technologies coming together on Kubernetes. Red Hat and
Redis Labs have collaborated on a well-tested and certified solution to
bring organizations a powerful new way to deploy and operate Redis
Enterprise database on the OpenShift platform. This integrated solution
helps our joint customers accelerate the build, deployment, and
management of cloud-native applications and rapidly deliver new
experiences to their customers.”
John Leon, vice president, Business Development and Strategic
Alliances, Twistlock
"Kubernetes Operators help fill a largely
unmet need for users - how to run complex, stateful apps on the same
fabric as apps that were born cloud native. This helps realize the
vision of Kubernetes being an abstraction over all clouds for any
workload and really makes it the 'operating system' for modern apps.
Many of Twistlock and Red Hat's customers are in large enterprises
across government, health care, and financial services and Operators
will enable them to move even more of their workloads on to a fully
cloud native stack running on OpenShift and protected with Twistlock."
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