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2022: Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus shipped with Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation

On February 2, 2021, Red Hat announced that Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, the industry-leading enterprise-class Kubernetes platform, is now bundled with Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation, a set of data services, including software-defined data storage. Thus, Red Hat offers application developers and specialists DevSecOps a functionally completed multi-round Kubernetes stack "out of the box." With OpenShift Data Foundation, developers get a single platform for cloud and on-premise environments with persistent storage capabilities, and IT operators get data management tools.

According to the company, the Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus platform provides unified and consistent protection, security and application management in Kubernetes clusters throughout the lifecycle, including support for a variety of cloud infrastructures.

Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus includes:

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is a comprehensive foundation for a Kubernetes-based hybrid cloud that helps programmers optimize application development and delivery, and IT system managers manage these applications.
• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes - secures and protects your software, IT infrastructure, and workloads.
• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes - implements end-to-end observation, control and management of Kubernetes clusters in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Red Hat Quay is a global and scalable container registry for the organization of pipelines, which cover various IT infrastructures and check images for vulnerabilities to identify and eliminate potential security risks.
• Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation Essentials - provides unified management of container load data on clusters in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

With Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, organizations will have a single, versatile solution, functionality, and tools to quickly implement cloud solutions and DevSecOps methodologies across hybrid cloud components, including edge peripheral systems.

Today's cloud applications require clustered data management services that not only deliver unified workloads in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, but also can dynamically scale as needed. With the integration of OpenShift Data Foundation into Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, organizations receive a single set of data services. It covers all components of the enterprise IT landscape where containers are deployed, which helps prevent data warehousing segregation.

The latest version of OpenShift Data Foundation 4.9 has received features for faster application development and deployment, such as:

• Multicloud Object Gateway namespace buckets solve the problem of data availability when working with different cloud storage with greater flexibility. Data can be located in one place and at the same time be available in other locations where the applications that need them are located, and without copying the data.
• The encryption of persistent volumes is the ability to manage and store encryption keys separately from the cluster. Provides optimized granularity and flexibility, allowing users to use their own KMS keys.

Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus is already available for download. In the presence of the operating subscription to Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus the OpenShift Data Foundation Essentials package is provided free of charge.

The Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus package of Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation Advanced in which expanded functions of safety, support of multicluster workloads, reserve restoration and also support of the autonomous and mixed use of storage are added to opportunities of OpenShift Data Foundation Essentials is also already available.

As organizations diversify their applications in response to the changing demands of the global economy, the ability to innovate on a large scale while maintaining robust IT protection becomes paramount. The Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus platform is a Kubernetes tailored to the needs of enterprise customers. Plus, this is a set of built-in additional subsystems, such as management, security, and now also storage of data that is not in the basic Kubernetes. told Joe Fernandes, vice president of Red Hat and general manager of cloud platforms, Red Hat

2021

Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines, Red Hat OpenShift GitOps и Red Hat build of Quarkus

On October 20, 2021, Red Hat, an open source provider, announced a series of updates to its line of tools and programs for developers. These updates optimize productivity, security, and scalability when building an application for Red Hat OpenShift, the industry-leading enterprise-class Kubernetes platform. Updated tools, including Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines, Red Hat OpenShift GitOps and Red Hat build of Quarkus, as well as training resources on the Kube By Example portal, will help optimize the creation, automation and deployment of applications in hybrid multi-cloud environments.

According to a survey of developers conducted by Stack Overflow in 2021, Kubernetes and Git are the two most popular tools in the development environment. And this is understandable, since Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform and a de facto standard for automating the deployment and management of cloud applications in production environments. Combined with tools such as the cloud-based continuous integration and delivery system OpenShift Pipelines and the versioning toolkit OpenShift GitOps, OpenShift offers developers a basis for optimizing flexibility throughout the application lifecycle.

The features in the updated versions of OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines help optimize the work of developers. OpenShift Pipelines is further embedded in the software development lifecycle, automating the application of updates across all environments. This also includes deeper integration with the Tekton SPO project using webhooks to start pipelines when specified git events occur, such as push to the repository or pull request mergers. OpenShift Pipelines is now verified to work in fully managed environments (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS and Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated). And the OpenShift console, thanks to integration with TektonHub, allows developers to use the tasks implemented by the community in the pipelines.

OpenShift GitOps helps optimize safety code through practices regarding where, how, and when updates can be made through Git. In particular, it allows to optimize safety, control of multitenantny configurations and to use registration data OpenShift for an entrance to ArgoCD.

The Quarkus open source project offers developers the opportunity to build and refine existing Java and Spring applications for the modern world of the ubiquitous Kubernetes. Using the compile-time boot process and close integration with OpenShift, Red Hat's Quarkus variation offers the production-level capabilities to build cloud applications.

In this version of Quarkus, a number of features have appeared that help optimize the productivity of developers, such as:

• Continuous testing - provides quick feedback when editing code, optimizing developer productivity.
• Updated Quarkus command line interface - eliminates the need to use Gradle or Maven commands, reducing the time to perform typical operations and ensuring more rigor and unity in work.
• Updated, more graphical developer UI - visual representation of extensions and documentation, REST endpoints objects, CDI beans, etc.
• Development services - automatically create, configure and connect popular databases, message queues and other components to applications as they are developed.

Created as a Kubernetes framework for developing fast and lightweight applications, Quarkus is suitable for writing serverless functions. This version of Quarkus introduced integration with the Funqy API (provides the transfer of functions between serverless providers) and the Knative SPO project, which complements Kubernetes with components for deploying, executing and managing serverless cloud applications (both of these integrations are still available as tech preview).

As it continues to evolve, serverless computing is gradually becoming more appropriate for general-purpose workloads. To help developers take advantage of the opportunities available here, especially in the context of event-driven container architectures, the updated version of Red Hat OpenShift Serverless offers components from the parent ACT project Knative.

Another point of application in Red Hat OpenShift Serverless was security, in particular, data encryption appeared during the transfer using OpenShift Service Mesh. In addition, by using the Kubernetes operator, installation is now carried out in just one click. In addition to the standard kn for Knative CLI commands, the deployment and topology of serverless can now also be created using the experience of the developer of the OpenShift DevConsole console.

In addition, Red Hat introduced a tech preview version of OpenShift Serverless Functions, an instrumental framework for developing serverless functions based on Knative. The central user tool here is the kn func command line utility. This is a plugin that complements the standard CLI command kn with the capabilities to develop serverless functions on the Knative platform. As a result, development on the MacOS, RHEL and Windows platforms can now be done locally using Docker and Podman. This plugin was created by Red Hat as part of the Boson ACT project. In July 2021, Red Hat donated Boson to the Knative ACT project to help developers better realize the capabilities of Knative-based serverless functions.

Kube by Example offers developers and IT operators the opportunity to learn Kubernetes in practice. There are courses on the full range of Kubernetes related technologies, from initial basic knowledge to more complex topics, including three training tracks: "AI and machine learning on the Kubernetes platform," "Migration to Kubernetes" and "Operators with Helm, Anonymous and Go."

Red Hat OpenShift 4.9

On October 15, 2021, Red Hat announced Red Hat OpenShift 4.9 and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.4 solutions that ensure the consistency of the open hybrid cloud up to the farthest boundaries of the corporate network. The updated capabilities of Red Hat solutions, including the public version of single-node OpenShift mode to create a small full-featured Kubernetes cluster on a single server, help organizations scale their current application development, deployment, and maintenance processes in the face of growing demand for information and services.

According to IDC estimates, in the future, 50% of infrastructure components will be deployed not in enterprise data centers, but in peripheral edge sites (for comparison: in 2021, the share of the latter will be less than 10%). IDC also predicts that by 2024, the growth in the number of applications deployed on such sites will be 800%. Enterprises in a wide range of industries deploy delay-sensitive applications on edge systems, not only to make them user-friendly, but also to optimize the adoption of business-friendly data-based solutions.

The growing demand to run applications at remote locations, rather than at the data center of the enterprise, creates a need for tools that optimize not only deployment, but also large-scale application management on edge systems. And updated versions of OpenShift and Advanced Cluster Management allow the user to deploy workloads where needed.

In addition to the 3-node cluster and remote worker nodes, the updated version of Red Hat OpenShift also offers another mode for edge deployments called "single-node OpenShift," where control and executing components are located on the same server to fit into the rigid mass-dimensional restrictions of remote IT sites. Independent of the centralized Kubernetes management system, the single-node OpenShift ensures operational independence of edge sites with unstable communications, such as production facilities or cell towers.

In real-world conditions, the edge system fleet can number from several hundred to tens and hundreds of thousands of Kubernetes clusters, which are often located in places with a minimum or even zero presence of IT staff. By providing a unified and holistic view of the entire enterprise IT system, from edge systems to data centers and cloud environments, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management allows the user to manage their sites and clusters more consistently, without requiring uninterrupted communication between Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management and edge sites.

The updated version of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management provides complete management of all components of the enterprise application infrastructure, including single-node OpenShift clusters, remote worker nodes and 3-node clusters, which optimizes the operation of scalable architectures.

It is also worth noting the following, focused on edge update systems:

• Management of large-scale edge systems (in the tech preview version) - up to 2000 clusters per hub, plus support for the IPv6 stack for a managed fleet, facilitate scaling on networks with low bandwidth, delays and unstable communications.
• Template hub-side policies - Reduces the number of policies required in large-scale management scenarios by reading a single hub-side policy and applying it to different cluster scenarios.
• Zero touch provisioning (in the tech preview version) - the ability to use the Assisted Installer when installing Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management in on-premise mode reduces the starting difficulty threshold when deploying large-scale clusters.

Modern edge configurations are in most cases complex to design and implement, and require the consistent operation of several software products to organize a comprehensive software stack. To optimize this task, Red Hat developed and presents the so-called "Validated Patterns" (Red Hat Validated Patterns).

These templates combine the architectural components necessary for the edge stack, reducing the complexity and labor of the corresponding operations. By implementing the edge stack as code approach, Red Hat Validated Patterns define, assemble, and validate the configuration of the edge stack deployment software. As software versions are released, templates are re-tested for health, minimizing risks to the customer and allowing them to take advantage of the additional capabilities of these versions. In addition, Red Hat Validated Patterns are fully open, allowing contractors to collaborate freely and offer their options for improving them.

The release of the publicly available version of Red Hat OpenShift 4.9 is expected at the end of October 2021, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.4 - in November 2021. Both of these products are part of Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, a solution that helps you scale across clusters and clouds, and protects your software, IT, and workload chains throughout the software lifecycle.

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Compatible with Nutanix HCI

Red Hat and Nutanix announced a strategic partnership on August 2, 2021 to offer a comprehensive solution for building, scaling, and managing cloud applications both locally and in hybrid clouds. The collaboration will integrate technology and ensure the compatibility and management of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the Nutanix platform, which includes Nutanix AOS and AHV. More details here.

Red Hat OpenShift 4.8

On July 2, 2021, Red Hat, an open source solution provider, announced the release of Red Hat OpenShift 4.8. By providing a foundation for developing and operating a variety of workloads in the hybrid cloud, the solution helps organizations optimize the creation of today's cloud applications without abandoning existing IT systems that have been heavily invested in.

According to the company, its needs are changing as the organization grows, and with them the landscape of applications. Therefore, Kubernetes-based cloud platforms must cover not only all components of the hybrid open cloud infrastructure, but also the entire variety of workloads and applications operating in such environments. A recent survey conducted by Pulse with the support of Red Hat confirms this point and indicates an increase in the use of applications on Kubernetes platforms. Respondents' responses suggest a wide variety of container and Kubernetes loads, including the following types of tasks:

• Data Base and caching systems.
• Data collection, preparation and analytical processing systems.
• Logging and monitoring.
• Application Servers and Web.
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) systems.
• Custom applications based on Java and Microsoft.NET.

Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 provides organizations with a common foundation for more consistent development, deployment, and launch of a hybrid suite of applications and services.

Worldwide, organizations, including AXA France, Bao-zun, İşbank and WorldPay, choose Red Hat OpenShift as a platform for heterogeneous loads, from modern data analytics and artificial intelligence/machine learning systems, to traditional Java and.NET-based applications at different stages of modernization. An updated version of Red Hat OpenShift helps optimize the development and operation of such mixed load combinations across all sections of the hybrid cloud.

Red Hat OpenShift 4.8, which is based on Kubernetes 1.21 and the runtime interface BRI-O 1.21, optimizes the work of developers, as well as expands the range of workloads and scenarios for using the hybrid cloud. The list of changes to OpenShift 4.8 includes the following features and functions:

• IPv6 Dual stack/and IPv4 single stack IPv6 support provides interoperability and connectivity for applications in environments where IPv4 is combined with IPv6, such as Cloud-Native Network Functions on telecom operator networks, and state institutions where IPv6 support is required. It also helps provide additional safety applications, including compliance.
• OpenShift Pipelines now allows users to declaratively set, versione, and track changes in application delivery pipelines similar to source code in Git repositories. Thus, developers can use Git-based workflows to automate the deployment of CI/CD pipelines in order to put other functions into operation in a faster and safer way for business. In addition, Git processes can be used to manage pipelines with audit records in the form of Git-commits, which is useful when collective changes of pipelines during their life cycle.
• Updated OpenShift console capabilities for developers, including the ability to encode and test Spring Boot applications locally before sharing code. In addition, by expanding development support using Serverless technologies, Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 offers additional scaling options from the developer console.
• OpenShift Serverless Functions allow developers to create features and run them OpenShift on demand. Available in technology preview, this feature helps optimize application development and operation by eliminating manual infrastructure preparation and scaling.
• The sandbox for containers OpenShift based on the Kata Containers ACT project, provides a safer container execution environment using lightweight virtual machines. This feature is available in the technology preview version and can be used to protect special workloads with increased application-level security requirements. As of July 2021, most applications and services lack standard Linux container security tools, but the sandbox provides an additional level of isolation for especially security-critical tasks, such as running privileged loads or untrusted code.

In recent years, the number of OpenShift loads offered by third-party developers who are ISV partners of Red Hat has increased. The Pulse survey mentioned above showed that 63% of respondents use either a combination of ISV and custom loads, or only ISV loads based on containers and Kubernetes.

Red Hat has refined its OpenShift solution certification program to optimize the range of workloads available for this industry-class Kubernetes platform industrial. Now Red Hat partners can adapt and certify their software solutions for OpenShift using the mechanisms of Kubernetes Operators or Helm Charts to, among other things, use Kubernetes technologies to manage and scale their software systems.

OpenShift ecosystem with certification at the level of Kubernetes Operators and charts of Helm contains for July, 2021 more than 150 partner solutions, including the solutions of Intel OpenVINO Model Server and OpenNESS, the container focused platform of data Ionir, hybrid cloud storage of objects MinIO, a cloud service of the MongoDB Atlas databases and also the HashiCorp Vault product certified at the level of Helm which are recently certified at the level of Operators. The ecosystem helps organizations optimize their capabilities with solutions that integrate closely with the OpenShift and move a wide range of tasks to the cloud, including databases, AI/ML, application runtimes, development tools, data warehouses, network solutions, security, monitoring and logging, and more.

It is planned that the publicly available version of Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 will be released in July 2021, including in the form of a trial version on the Developer Sandbox for Red Hat Openshift portal.

OpenShift GitOps и OpenShift Pipelines

On May 11, 2021, Red Hat, an open source solution provider, introduced OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines, a feature of Red Hat OpenShift that helps optimize interaction between application developers and IT operators by optimizing application development and deployment processes in the hybrid cloud.

According to the company, the methodology DevOps changes established views on how the interaction between application developers and IT operators is built, ensuring consistency of actions instead of isolation, which, in turn, helps to bring applications to the production stage more quickly. However, as of May 2021, many organizations are still experiencing difficulties with the full implementation of DevOps, especially due to the fact that the relevant tools are closely tied to production processes or software, which causes inconsistencies in the actions of IT teams. OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines help streamline application development and operation by interacting with teams in the early stages of development and providing greater security, predictability, and visibility for applications at all stages of the lifecycle.

If DevOps is the corporate culture that most IT organizations aspire to, then continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) is the means to achieve this goal. Nevertheless, between two of these processes the bridge which represents OpenShift GitOps is still necessary.

GitOps relies on a developer-centric approach to building applications with the Git repository as a single source of truth for both developers and operators. OpenShift GitOps, based on the Argo CD open source project, enables IT teams to implement GitOps workflows in cluster configuration and application delivery operations. As a result of the implementation of the framework, the GitOps distribution of changes and updates is performed using declarative code, which automates infrastructure and deployment requirements, as well as using CI/CD processes that help optimize the speed, security and scalability of software development processes.

In addition, OpenShift GitOps optimizes the visibility of the status of clusters and applications and corrects deviations from the desired state if necessary. This capability allows IT teams to fully monitor and track changes made to clusters, since each change is reflected in the Git repository, which optimizes the task of negotiating Kubernetes clusters in an open hybrid cloud.

OpenShift Pipelines, based on the Tekton open source project, runs each phase of the CI/CD pipeline in its own container, which allows you to flexibly scale these phases independently of each other. For example, operators who want to optimize the use of IT infrastructure can reduce the resources allocated to the pipeline during periods of lull in order to reduce the cost and overhead of maintaining the work required by the pipeline developers.

OpenShift Pipelines optimizes operations by allowing complete control of IT command delivery pipelines, plugins, and access control without using a single centrally managed CI/CD server.

OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines are already available on the OperatorHub for subscribers of all managed services OpenShift, as well as subscribers of OpenShift Container Platform and OpenShift Platform Plus on the Red Hat OpenShift 4.7 platform and above.

With the help of OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines, far-fetched barriers between developers and IT operators disappear, allowing them to interact earlier in the application development process. This not only helps to find and prevent defects faster in the software delivery process, but also optimizes the process as a whole, ensuring proper visibility and security throughout the life cycle. told Ashesh Badani, Red Hat's senior vice president of cloud platforms

Red Hat OpenShift API Management, Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka и Red Hat OpenShift Data Science

On May 28, 2021, Red Hat, an open source provider, announced the expansion of its open-source hybrid cloud technology portfolio through managed cloud services Red Hat OpenShift API Management, Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka and Red Hat OpenShift Data Science. These services enable organizations to provide a fully managed and optimized user interface for building, deploying, managing, and scaling cloud applications in hybrid environments. The updated services are tightly integrated with Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated and help optimize the operation of complex IT environments without compromising the performance of developers, providing a single set of features for the entire range of open hybrid and multi-cloud solutions.

According to the company, 2020 showed how important large-scale operations are in the hybrid cloud for IT managers, especially in the face of growing demand for such services and the need to support the operation of traditional corporate infrastructures. To survive in the present reality, users and partners need the flexibility to use technologies to deliver any applications anywhere, while reducing complexity and overhead. Announced, Cloud Services where support and operational management are provided by Red Hat, allows users to create next-generation applications, focusing on the distribution problem data and providing access to them using APIs. Red Hat services include:

• Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka - optimizes the creation, search and connection to real-time data streams, regardless of their location.
• Red Hat OpenShift Data Science - enables organizations to quickly develop, train, and test machine learning (MO) models and export them to a container-ready format.
• Red Hat OpenShift API Management - accelerates development and launch, and reduces operational costs of delivering API-oriented microservice applications.

Based on the Free Software project Apache Kafka, Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka helps developers integrate streaming data into their applications. When designing applications for a hybrid cloud, data flows provide a foundation for collecting, transmitting, and processing events in today's distributed application architectures. Real-time data is a critical component of functional hybrid cloud applications, enabling faster digital learning anywhere the service is available. Red Hat takes over all the operational management and hosting of Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka.

Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka is already available in the developer preview version, the final version is expected later in 2021.

Red Hat OpenShift Data Science is based on the Open Data Hub Free Software Project and enables faster development, training and testing of machine learning models without building an appropriate IT infrastructure on its own. Red Hat OpenShift Data Science implements standard data science tools as the basis of the AI as a service platform integrated with cloud services of partner companies, including third-party solutions presented at the Red Hat Marketplace.

Red Hat OpenShift Data Science is available as a beta as a supplement to OpenShift Dedicated and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, the final version is expected later in 2021.

Red Hat OpenShift API Management provides comprehensive API lifecycle management through Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS. With full operational management outsourcing and native integration with OpenShift, the solution allows organizations to focus on application tasks while building, managing, and scaling API-oriented, microservice applications without being distracted by infrastructure issues. Red Hat OpenShift API Management also allows users to create their own API management programs using features such as access control, usage monitoring, API sharing, and develop their application ecosystem using a single pipeline of DevOps.

Red Hat OpenShift API Management is already fully available as the final version as an addition to Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS.

The introduced managed cloud services are based on the Red Hat OpenShift line of solutions that allow you to implement the Kubernetes environment on various public cloud platforms with operational control both by users and under full outsourcing conditions. This allows Red Hat users and partners to build an open hybrid cloud strategy based on the enterprise-class Kubernetes industry platform, regardless of the availability of their own IT infrastructure and the required operational staff.

Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated, a fully managed application development platform from Red Hat Amazon with deployment in the Web Services cloud (AWS) or Google Cloud includes the management and integration of enterprise Linux platform technology components, Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well as various services such as, network monitoring and many others, to optimize operational complexity and help developers create, implement and run cloud applications faster. By connecting OpenShift Dedicated to, data center the user can implement a more secure and flexible hybrid cloud strategy with minimal infrastructure and operational costs. Supported by Red Hat's global site reliability design team, OpenShift Dedicated provides an application development platform with the ability to integrate and manage services at all levels of the stack, allowing the user to focus on building products rather than managing the application platform. Besides OpenShift Dedicated also exist Red Hat OpenShift on, IBM Cloud Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Microsoft Azure and Red Hat OpenShift - completely operated OpenShift-services which support and support are carried out by joint forces of Red Hat and suppliers cloudy the platform, access to these services is provided within the cloud-based console corresponding. These provider services allow you to optimize operational overhead and accelerate the delivery of applications that more fully take into account business requirements and fully comply with compliance.

To fully leverage the capabilities of an open hybrid cloud, IT managers need the ability to leverage the technologies they need and in those IT environments that best meet their needs. The use of managed Red Hat cloud services removes a number of barriers that prevent organizations from fully realizing the potential of a hybrid cloud. told Matt Hicks, Red Hat's executive vice president of products and technology

Start the managed Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) service

On March 20, 2021, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Red Hat, an open source solution provider, announced the launch of the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) managed service, which is available through the AWS Console and helps Red Hat customers OpenShift simplify the assembly, scaling and management of container applications on the AWS platform. ROSA facilitates the creation of Kubernetes clusters using the familiar features, tools, and console of Red Hat OpenShift, as well as eliminates the time-consuming manual operations to scale and manage the underlying infrastructure. ROSA optimizes the migration of local Red Hat OpenShift workloads to the AWS cloud and offers closer integration with other AWS services. In addition, licensing, billing and support for Red Hat OpenShift within ROSA is provided directly through AWS on a single-window basis.

As explained, AWS offers a wide range of container technologies in the cloud, including Amazon Elastic Containers Service (ECS) for those who need integration with AWS services; Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) for those who prioritize Kubernetes; and AWS Fargate for those who want to use serverless technologies and run containers without thinking about managing the underlying servers and clusters.

Red Hat OpenShift, an enterprise-class Kubernetes platform that extends the capabilities of basic Kubernetes and is designed to build industrial-level cloud IT stacks. In addition to additional costs and labor, in this case you also have to deal with two service providers, Red Hat and AWS. Therefore, customers have a request for a solution that would simplify the use of Red Hat OpenShift in the Amazon cloud through seamless integration with AWS services and allow them to solve all support and billing tasks from the AWS interface.

ROSA allows users to quickly create Kubernetes clusters using familiar APIs and Red Hat Openshift tools, as well as gain seamless full access to all AWS services, all from the AWS console. ROSA also provides flexible expansion and billing by using Red Hat software subscriptions, allowing the user to avoid complex multi-year contracts and quickly scale their Red Hat OpenShift platform in the AWS cloud according to current business needs. Within the framework of ROSA, everything related to the support and billing of Red Hat OpenShift subscriptions is carried out through AWS, which eliminates a lot of difficulties associated with procurement and operational management when there are several suppliers. In addition, ROSA ensures compliance with key regulations and standards, including SOUND-2, ISO-27001, and PCI.

Users increasingly turn to containers to optimize the speed of application development and portability, and increasingly rely on technologies such as Red Hat OpenShift and AWS that facilitate the deployment of container applications. ROSA allows such users to seamlessly run containers on AWS using the usual Red Hat APIs and tools OpenShift while fully integrating with AWS services during the construction, scaling and management of workloads. told Bob Wise, AWS CEO for Kubernetes

With ROSA, Cognizant customers will have integrated AWS cloud OpenShift platform experience. By offering OpenShift in the AWS cloud, we position ROSA as the right solution for customers who want to delegate responsibility for infrastructure and platform services to focus entirely on their core business challenges. said Raghuraman Chandrasekharan, Vice President Cognizant of Service Delivery and Head of AWS Business Group

Use to increase system deployment flexibility MindSphere

Siemens, IBM and Red Hat on March 1, 2021 announced a collaboration program to use the IBM hybrid cloud as the basis for an open, flexible and secure solution for real-sector business operational data analysis in real time. As part of this initiative, Siemens Digital Industries Software will use the IBM open hybrid cloud based on Red Hat OpenShift to increase the flexibility of deploying the MindSphere system, an industrial solution of Siemens that implements the "IoT as a service" principle. " More details here.

Red Hat OpenShift 4.7

Red Hat on March 1, 2021 introduced Red Hat OpenShift 4.7, the next version of the enterprise-class industry Kubernetes platform. Based on Kubernetes 1.20, the solution is designed to simplify and accelerate application upgrades, helping IT professionals unify traditional and cloud applications with new features and a proven, universal platform that supports a wide range of hybrid cloud environments.

Red Hat OpenShift provides different capabilities for upgrading and migrating applications, allowing each organization to choose the best option for themselves. In particular, Release 4.7 offers advanced upgrade tools for migrating legacy applications to new microservice architectures and for consistently managing the entire enterprise application portfolio to improve operational efficiency while maintaining a high pace of innovation.

Red Hat OpenShift 4.7 includes the March 1 version of OpenShift Virtualization technology, first introduced in July 2020, which eliminates infrastructure barriers between traditional and cloud applications, and expands control over distributed resources. The list of added features and enhancements of OpenShift Virtualization includes:

• Import existing virtual machines (VMs) to the Red Hat OpenShift platform.
• Templates for fast VM creation.
• Integration with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes for advanced regulation and policy management for applications of various types of applications, including virtualized applications.

Red Hat OpenShift 4.7 also offers enhanced support for Windows Containers, announced at the end of 2020. In addition to the already supported Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure, OpenShift, as planned, will be able to work with Windows Container on the vSphere platform from next month using the Installer Provided Infrastructure (IPI). Thus, organizations can transfer existing Windows containers to Red Hat OpenShift from almost any widespread platform without a deep revision of the architecture and source code.

The Migration Toolkit for Virtualization tool, which will soon be released in technology preview, simplifies mass VM migration to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, making it easier for developers to access legacy VMs when developing new cloud applications.

Migration Toolkit for Virtualization is easily and quickly deployed in the OpenShift environment using the appropriate Operator available on the OperatorHub website. The migration itself is done in a few simple steps: 1) entering credentials to connect to the old and new platforms; 2) comparison of resources of old and new infrastructures; 3) creation of a migration plan and 4), in fact, migration.

The public version of Migration Toolkit for Virtualization will be released later this year and will offer enhanced capabilities to optimize migration, reduce risk, and reduce downtime by pre-checking for compatibility issues, improved data copying, and advanced automation that reduces manual migration operations.

Red Hat OpenShift 4.7 also includes a technology preview version of OpenShift GitOps, a specialized framework for implementing the GitOps methodology, which is based on Argo CD and provides declarative continuous delivery through the integration of CI/CD tools, including pipelines OpenShift Pipelines, with GitHub and Gitlab code repositories to solve operational problems using Git workflows.

By implementing the "infrastructure as code" principle, OpenShift GitOps allows you to manage, protect, and update applications through the Git repository, which reduces time to market, simplifies update processes, and simplifies security.

Availability

Red Hat OpenShift 4.7 is already available for download.

"Application upgrades offer tremendous opportunities for organizations while increasing pressure on already overburdened IT professionals. Red Hat OpenShift 4.7 helps organizations to modernize in stages, at the most rational pace for themselves and without disrupting the work of existing services. In addition, combining modern and traditional applications, Red Hat OpenShift ensures consistent operation and management of the entire complex of enterprise applications, regardless of their location or underlying infrastructure, "said Ashesh Badani, senior vice president of Red Hat for Cloud Platforms.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage Release 4.6

Main article: Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage

On January 26, 2021, Red Hat, an open source solution provider, introduced Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.6, which is part of the Red Hat Data Services line and allows customers to expand the capabilities of existing data protection solutions and infrastructures to improve data sustainability for cloud workloads operating in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. More details here.

2020

Introduction of protection against cyber attacks using quantum computers

At the end of November 2020, IBM introduced protection against quantum cyber attacks into its services. The company introduced the capabilities of "quantum cryptography" for three services in IBM Cloud: Red Hat OpenShift, Cloud Kubernetes Service and Key Protect. According to the company, customers using these services will now be able to protect data using an encryption algorithm that will have a better chance of resisting attacks by quantum computers in the future.

So far, quantum systems have only a small fraction of the computing power of a standard server. However, it is believed that future systems with improved equipment will be able to perform certain calculations much faster than modern supercomputers. Among other things, quantum computers can easily hack protection based on traditional encryption. The security of network connections used to transfer packets between consumer devices and data centers around the world will also be at risk. Therefore, IBM Cloud provided the opportunity to encrypt connections using Kyber, an encryption algorithm developed to protect data in the era of quantum computing.

The Red Hat OpenShift service in IBM Cloud, which received new encryption capabilities, is a managed version of the OpenShift application platform, and Cloud Kubernetes Service is a managed offer. Kubernetes Applications deployed in them will be able to use quantum-secure cryptography to protect the TLS connections that they use to send data to other services. Quantum-secure encryption is also included in Key Protect, an IBM Cloud service that enterprises use to manage encryption keys. In addition, IBM offered customers a "hybrid mode," which combines quantum-secure cryptography with standard public-private encryption algorithms for additional security.^[1]

As a technology base for COVID-Net

On November 25, 2020, it became known that DarwinAI and Red Hat announced a collaboration to accelerate the deployment of COVID-Net in hospitals and other medical facilities. The purpose of this cooperation is to simplify use of COVID-Net in hospitals, having provided to clinical physicians the graphic interface from the solution of ChRIS of the Boston children's hospital which is constructed on the basis of Red Hat OpenShift. More details here.

Red Hat OpenShift 4.6

On November 17, 2020, Red Hat, an open source solution provider, introduced an updated version of Red Hat OpenShift, an enterprise-class Kubernetes platform. By improving developer efficiency with updated OpenShift Serverless capabilities and expanding support for hardware and cloud architectures, an updated version of Red Hat OpenShift helps enterprises optimize technology in the hybrid cloud.

Over the next five years, cloud technologies will mark the next era of distributed enterprise software, which can be created and launched wherever there is a container platform. told at Forrester Research Company

Red Hat's Open Source in the Corporate Sector 2020 report also notes a growing request for a hybrid cloud: 63% of respondents said they have already deployed hybrid infrastructure, and more than half plan to do so in the next two years.

Red Hat believes that Kubernetes is the cornerstone of hybrid cloud computing, the ability to cover all components of an enterprise IT system within one platform and a single set of tools and services: bare iron, virtual environments, private and public clouds. Red Hat OpenShift is built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), offers Kubernetes foundation for hybrid cloud computing.

Traditional application development tools and technologies are difficult to meet the requirements of the cloud world, especially when container deployment models blur the boundaries between application developers and IT professionals responsible for their operation. Therefore, Red Hat OpenShift offers developers a special user experience to optimize the creation of cloud applications, which received the following in the updated version:

• Red Hat OpenShift Serverless 1.11 with full Knative support allows container applications to consume as much resources as they currently need, eliminating both cost overruns and resource shortages.
• Red Hat Quarkus is a Kubernetes native Java stack provided with Red Hat branded support. Red Hat OpenShift users gain full access to Quarkus to develop a critical Java application on the Kubernetes platform, provided with the famous Red Hat support.

Your organization's current and future hybrid cloud requirements may vary greatly, especially as changing global factors may require rapid and dramatic changes in delivery, scaling, and service generation.

Red Hat OpenShift 4.6 offers the following updates for faster response to such calls:

• Peripherals, including remote worker nodes, can be deployed under severe server size constraints and can scale by hosting servers in remote locations while maintaining centralized control and management.
• Taking into account the specifics of the work of state institutions, including the possibility of deployment in the clouds of AWS GovCloud and Azure Government Cloud, support for OpenSCAP, etc.

The updated version of Red Hat OpenShift also offers a version of the recently introduced OpenShift Virtualization technology, which received the functions of informed and simple, in one click, creation of virtual machines (VMs) based on templates, as well as optimizing the performance and scaling of VMs with Microsoft Windows workloads .

In addition, the capabilities of the OpenShift are further expanded by the Red Hat OpenShift Anonymous Content Collection, which are Red Hat certified automation component sets for the Red Hat Anonymous Automation Platform, designed to automate operational tasks and OpenShift management processes.

Open hybrid cloud strategies do not focus on a single architecture or cloud provider. On the contrary, they are usually aimed at choosing the best option in each direction of the digital transformation of the enterprise. This means the simultaneous use of hardware from different manufacturers, or cloud platforms from different providers, or a combination thereof. Red Hat OpenShift is designed for these environments and allows you to build an open hybrid cloud on almost any technical foundation.

Red Hat OpenShift can run on different enterprise-class irons, including classic solutions such as IBM Z, IBM LinuxONE IBM Power Systems and IBM Storage.

In addition to the fact that Red Hat OpenShift is offered as a service (managed by either the customer or a third-party organization) on all major public cloud platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Microsoft Azure, it is now also available in specialized AWS and Microsoft Azure clouds for government agencies, which simplifies the use of state Kubernetes. It is also worth focusing on the public cloud service Azure Red Hat OpenShift, which is designed, provided and supported jointly by Red Hat and Microsoft on the Microsoft Azure platform. It is expected that a similar joint service of Red Hat and Amazon will be launched on the AWS platform.

Kubernetes-based hybrid cloud strategy is more than just orchestrating containers. The massive transformation of the enterprise requires the support of a wide range of application services, hardware and public cloud platforms, as well as a strong ecosystem of partner solutions. told Ashesh Badani, senior vice president of Red Hat for Cloud Platforms

NTT DATA can only welcome the release of an updated version of Red Hat OpenShift. For digital transformation, we have built our cloud platform OpenCanvas and already use OpenShift together with DENTRANS solutions, which provides us with applications for rent. When choosing the basis for building a OpenCanvas platform, Red Hat's approach to an open hybrid cloud was very important to us. By betting on Red Hat OpenShift, we have the ability to use AWS and Azure in conjunction with on-premise services for greater flexibility in the IT environments of customers using OpenCanvas. reported Masachika Suda, Vice President and Head of Production Engineering Department, NTT DATA Corporation

Red Hat OpenShift 4.5

On August 17, 2020, Red Hat, an open source solution provider, released Red Hat OpenShift 4.5, an updated version of the enterprise-class Kubernetes platform. Red Hat OpenShift 4.5 now includes OpenShift Virtualization technology.

According to Gartner, by 2022, more than 75% of global organizations will use container applications in industrial operation, which is significantly higher than 30% of such organizations in 2019. Although Gartner claims that cloud applications are the future of business innovation and development, many users still invest in mission-critical software systems running on traditional virtual machines (VMs). The updated version of Red Hat OpenShift includes OpenShift Virtualization technology, which allows you to transfer standard VM loads to the Kubernetes environment to eliminate isolation of traditional and cloud applications at the level of development and maintenance processes.

According to the company, OpenShift Virtualization, first introduced as a technology preview at Red Hat Summit 2020, has grown to a publicly available version and is now completely free of charge as part of Red Hat OpenShift. This technology was created as part of an open project KubeVirt and is designed to develop, deploy and maintain applications that can simultaneously include VMs, containers and serverless functions running on a single and modern Kubernetes platform. With OpenShift Virtualization, Red Hat elevates traditional applications to the level of open innovation, and the user gets the opportunity to carry out IT transformation at a convenient pace.

Bringing a single architectural foundation to software systems, OpenShift Virtualization provides a single application development experience and optimizes your organization's ability to implement technology. After initially migrating VMs to the Red Hat OpenShift platform, you can then container them or leave them as virtual machines, which allows you to create applications that simultaneously use both containers and VMs running on the same platform.

Red Hat OpenShift 4.5 has also gained the functionality of comprehensive deployment automation in environments, VMware vSphere which allows you to easily shape the Red Hat OpenShift environment over any supported vSphere infrastructures. Thanks to comprehensive automation, it is enough for the administrator to enter accounts data for deployment in the vSphere environment, and the installer will prepare all the necessary resources himself, which not only speeds up the initial configuration, but also simplifies day-to-day management and maintenance. Comprehensive deployment automation complements legacy OpenShift deployment support on VMware vSphere infrastructures, providing administrators with additional flexibility to deploy OpenShift to vSphere environments with the required degree of customization.

Comprehensive OpenShift deployment automation for August 2020 supports AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat Virtualization and Red Hat OpenStack Platform platforms, and offers the user a single automated approach to deploying OpenShift clusters on various cloud services and in their own data centers. With automated deployment in vSphere environments, Red Hat makes it easier to build an enterprise container platform based on existing virtual enterprise infrastructures, giving you more freedom and flexibility to choose the underlying infrastructure platform.

For August 2020, Red Hat OpenShift 4.5 is already available for download. You can use OpenShift Virtualization from the OpenShift console through a supported operator in the Operator Hub.

OpenShift Virtualization, Red Hat OpenShift 4.4 и Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes

On April 28, 2020, Red Hat, an open source provider, announced the next offerings to help customers optimize, scale, and protect IT systems in the current unstable environment.

Implementing Red Hat OpenShift, the company pioneered enterprise-class Kubernetes solutions, allowing customers to combine cloud-oriented approaches with support for traditional applications within a single platform. Thanks to this differentiated approach, Red Hat OpenShift has spread and gained the trust of organizations of various industries. Continuing to work on blurring the boundaries between traditional and cloud applications, Red Hat provides functionality that allows you to run the most modern workloads on the OpenShift and better respond to current customer needs.

The company announces the launch of the following features:

OpenShift Virtualization is a Red Hat OpenShift feature that grew out of an open project KubeVirt and is available in Technology Preview for April 2020. It allows the customer to develop, deploy, and maintain applications that include virtual machines containers and serverless components on a common platform for cloud-oriented and traditional workloads. Some suppliers seek to protect legacy technology stacks, reject Kubernetes and cloud-oriented functionality to preserve proprietary technologies. virtualizations Red Hat acts differently by bringing traditional application stacks to the forefront and placing them at the ON open source level, thus allowing customers to transform at a convenient pace, rather than according to the requirements dictated by proprietary software.

Red Hat OpenShift 4.4 is the latest version of the industry-leading enterprise-class Kubernetes platform that implements the simplicity and scaling of Kubernetes Operators. OpenShift 4.4 is based on Kubernetes 1.17 and offers a developer-specific platform metrics display, load application monitoring, integrated Red Hat Operators monitoring, cost management to account for resource utilization for a specific application deployed in the hybrid cloud, and more.

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes - Red Hat solution for efficient management of cloud-oriented applications in large distributed Kubernetes environments, which will become available in the version of Technology Preview. The solution provides users with a single, easy-to-use control center for monitoring and deploying OpenShift clusters in large environments with policy-based management and application lifecycle control.

Red Hat features and services are not linked to any particular hardware or cloud platform and can be freely used in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including:

• All cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud and Microsoft Azure, as well as a number of platforms from other specialized providers.
• Outsourced platforms OpenShift Dedicated, Azure Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Service, allowing organizations to take advantage of the corporate Kubernetes platform without the need for infrastructure management.
• Various hardware architectures, including x86, IBM Power, and mainframe.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4 и Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3

On January 17, 2020, Red Hat announced the release of Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4, an integrated storage system for multi-cloud environments based on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

The presented version of the container storages is based on the previous one, which in three and a half years has become widespread among corporate customers who needed a unified system storages for a wide range of intensive users data applications deployed in the open. hybrid cloud

According to the developer, the Multi-Cloud Object Gateway, obtained by Red Hat as a result of the acquisition of NooBaa in 2018, OpenShift Container Storage 4 offers more abstraction and flexibility so that customers have the opportunity to choose different date services in the public clouds of various providers while maintaining centralized application and data management using Kubernetes tools. This not only insures the customer against tightly linking to the cloud service provider, but also makes it easier for developers to put data closer to applications.

With Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), you get the object-ready storage and scalability you need to portability data applications within a hybrid Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform-based cloud. Previously, this opportunity was not provided by any provider of container warehouses presented in OpenShift OperatorHub, emphasized in Red Hat.

According to the developer, OpenShift Container Storage 4 provides a good development experience in all environments where Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is present. Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4 helps developers who create cloud applications from scratch or migrate existing systems to the cloud accelerate application development by:

• Integration with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform allows developers to dynamically build their own data warehouse within the platform without having special knowledge of storage.
• Simplified deployment and advanced automation with Rook storage orchestration capabilities. Rook.io Operator provides developers with automated support for Kubernetes, which simplifies the deployment, packaging and expansion of storage on the Red Hat OpenShift platform.
• Faster creation of persistent storage volumes in containers helps developers reduce the time required to create, test, and release applications by accelerating assembly and increasing the efficiency of the continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.

As noted in Red Hat, to ensure security in all cloud environments involved, OpenShift Container Storage 4 offers advanced data protection features such as encryption, anonymization, key separation, and erasure coding. Multi-Cloud Object Gateway allows developers to improve security and compliance when sharing and accessing sensitive application data in multi-site and multi-platform environments.

On January 17, 2020, Red Hat also announced the release of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3, an updated version of the enterprise-class Kubernetes platform, which received a number of additional security features, including FIPS-compatible encryption (FIPS 140-2 Level 1) and encryption of the etcd data warehouse for additional protection of secrets during storage. Additional capabilities to support private clusters and private networks provide enhanced control when limiting access to platforms and applications within cloud clusters.

Scalable storage for workloads in multi-cloud environments Based on Red Hat Ceph Storage, Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4 provides scalability and security that meet the demands of next-generation workloads such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, SQL, NoSQL, and other data-intensive tasks. Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4 is a storage operator that supports file, block, and object storage, making this platform the best solution for building integrated cloud storage solutions that can support both traditional systems and next-generation workloads, Red Hat claims.

As of January 2020, Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4 is already available for the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.

"When working in a comprehensive business environment, the key priority is to improve fault tolerance and reliability at each level of the technology stack. The advantage of OpenShift Container Storage is that you can build an integrated environment with data warehousing and shared volumes for multiple containers and pods, avoiding the complexity of configuring such a system. Compared to alternatives of the same level of scalability, there is a very high level of fault tolerance and reliability, and we are confident that the portability and simplicity characteristic of OpenShift Container Storage can give developers a wide range of storage services when working in a truly hybrid cloud, ensuring reliability at all stages of development and increasing labor productivity. " noted' Francesco Giannoccaro, Director of HPC Systems and Infrastructure, Public Health England "

"Container storage is a rapidly evolving area. Red Hat has maximally integrated its storage services into the OpenShift Container Platform, which allows customers to build intensive next-generation data applications with an eye to multi-year use, " noted' Eric Sheppard, vice president of research at Infrastructure Platforms and Technologies Group, IDC

2019

As part of a solution to leverage analytics in a hybrid cloud

On December 23, 2019, it became known that SAS and Red Hat jointly created a solution for the effective use of analytics in a hybrid cloud environment.

As part of the technology partnership, SAS provides its SAS Viya platform on the Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure. More details here.

Red Hat OpenShift 4.2

On October 16, 2019, Red Hat announced Red Hat OpenShift 4.2, an updated version of its enterprise-class Kubernetes platform, paying special attention to application developers. The solution continues Red Hat's focus on simplifying and automating service operations in hybrid clouds, helping to increase the speed of implementation and the economic impact of innovation through cloud-oriented applications.

According to the developer, Red Hat OpenShift 4.2 is designed to simplify the use of cloud technologies and make them more accessible to developers by automating the configuration and management processes of Kubernetes environments. As a result, developers can focus on building enterprise applications without wasting time and resources to gain deep knowledge and experience with Kubernetes.

According to the developer, the presented version of the Red Hat platform also offers ready-made development services for working with such things as service mesh networks, serverless applications and cloud pipelines of continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), which are designed to increase the performance of development of Kubernetes applications.

• Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh - Simplifies the development, deployment, and management of microservice applications on the OpenShift platform. The functionality is based on the ASW projects of Istio, Kiali and Jaeger, as well as the technology of Kubernetes Operators.
• Red Hat OpenShift Serverless - Reduces application execution costs by reducing them to zero during periods of inactivity while maintaining responsiveness to user requests, and then scaling as the load grows. The functionality is based on the Knative project and is presented in the Technology Preview version.
• Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines - Enables each CI/CD phase in its own container for flexible and independent container scaling, continuous integration, and delivery. The functionality is presented in the Developer Preview version and is implemented in the form of Kubernetes Operator.

In the presented version of OpenShift, Red Hat CodeReady Containers also appeared, allowing the developer to deploy a ready-made OpenShift environment on his computer for developing cloud applications locally. The developer receives a complete platform consisting of container development tools and a local cluster, which simplifies the development of cloud applications in local mode and subsequent deployment in a full-fledged OpenShift environment.

As noted in Red Hat, enterprise IT systems could never be described as a homogeneous, static series of deployments. IT decision makers often opt for hybrid environments based on their own enterprise IT infrastructure and cloud services. To facilitate the transition to such environments and ensure uniformity in working with them, Red Hat OpenShift 4.2 offers a number of options, such as:

• Simpler and faster automated installation of OpenShift Container Platform on public cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), as well as in private clouds, like OpenStack with management unification.
• Means of migration for transition from OpenShift 3 to OpenShift 4 with broad involvement of automation when copying workloads from one cluster of OpenShift in another.
• Container Storage Interface (CSI) drivers for connecting third-party storage services to the Kubernetes ecosystem. OpenShift Container Storage 4 is also supported (as of October 2019, it is in beta version).

Attempts to use enterprise-class Kubernetes platforms in digital transformation often face serious obstacles in the form of internal or external security standards that tightly regulate the network connectivity of sensitive data and workloads, up to physical isolation from the enterprise-wide network. This is right from a security point of view, but it makes it very difficult to migrate and update relevant applications and services, forcing the introduction of complex and multi-stage manual processes, Red Hat noted.

To improve the usability of OpenShift in heterogeneous deployment environments and systems, including those used for sensitive information, Red Hat OpenShift 4.2 offers a number of installer-level updates, including support for isolated configurations. This simplifies the deployment of the next versions of the corporate Kubernetes platform in environments without access to the Internet or where such access exists, but strict image testing policies are in place.

"Red Hat continues to prioritize making the next generation of open source enterprise technologies, such as Kubernetes, more accessible to developers without forgetting the interests of IT administrators. Therefore, when developing OpenShift 4.2, we focused on features that will help customers accelerate the development and delivery of applications, " noted Ashesh Badani, Senior Vice President, Red Hat Cloud Platforms

"Red Hat OpenShift 4 helps us unify the use of this trusted enterprise-class Kubernetes platform in a hybrid cloud environment. We can deploy any cluster with just one team. Kubernetes Operators enable one-click upgrade and lifecycle management. In addition, they provide automation, so that our teams responsible for applications can easily switch to the service model, " noted Justin Newcom, VP for information technology Omnitracs

Integration with Citrix ADC

On September 2, 2019, Citrix Systems announced that its Citrix ADC solution was certified Red Hat OpenShift, which will allow IT organizations to offer a faster and more flexible way to develop, test and deliver applications in Kubernetes environments. More details here.

Release of OpenShift Service Mesh solution

Main article: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

On August 26, 2019, the company Red Hat announced the release of a solution OpenShift Service Mesh designed to effectively organize inter-service interaction on the applications Kubernetes Red Hat OpenShift 4 platform. Based on the projects of Istio, Kiali and Jaeger and using the capabilities of Kubernetes Operators, the solution provides efficient end-to-end work with the architectures of microservice applications. This frees the development teams from the complex task of creating network services during application development and. business logic More. here

IBM Cloud Paks для Red Hat OpenShift

On August 1, 2019, IBM announced the transformation of its software portfolio, which is now designed for cloud environments and optimized to work on the Red Hat OpenShift platform. Enterprises will be able to create critical applications at a time and run them in the most popular public clouds, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba and IBM Cloud, as well as in private clouds.

According to IBM, cloud-focused capabilities will be provided in the form of integrated solutions, commonly known as IBM Cloud Paks. Read more about this in the article.

The company also announced the launch of the following solutions and services:

• Red Hat OpenShift на IBM Cloud

Flexible, fully managed OpenShift service based on IBM public cloud, deployed with push-button, automated sustainability, compliance, and security requirements. Enables enterprises to upgrade and migrate to a hybrid cloud infrastructure.

• Red Hat OpenShift for and IBM Z LinuxONE

IBM makes available the Red Hat OpenShift solution for Enterprise-class systems - IBM Z and LinuxONE. As of August, 2019 IBM already supports the solution of OpenShift in a line serverovIBM by Power Systems and also in a line of systems of storage dannyhIBM Storage.

• Red Hat Consulting & Technology Services

IBM services provided by a group of Red Hat-certified consultants, as well as more than 80 thousand specialists in the field of application cloud services development, will allow customers to receive recommendations, move, create workloads, and manage them in the cloud environment.

As noted in IBM, the announced software and services include over 100 optimized for Red Hat OpenShift solutions from the IBM portfolio and will be provided on the IBM hybrid multi-cloud platform. It uses technologies open source including Red Hat OpenShift, corporate platform Kubernetes and. As Red Hat Enterprise Linux a result, customers will be able to choose the optimal architecture and approach to meet the most important requirements for, and to applications to data workloads for their business.

"IBM is detaching its software from data centers to encourage the flow of corporate workloads into the cloud. We provide the key tools businesses need to travel to the cloud for years based on common open standards that can be implemented across cloud solutions, applications, and vendors with Red Hat " noted' Arvind Krishna, Senior Vice President, IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software

"Red Hat creates innovation with Linux-based technologies, including containers and Kubernetes, which have become key elements in hybrid cloud environments. The framework in the form of an open hybrid cloud platform ensures the implementation of any application anywhere and at any time. By leveraging IBM's broad industry expertise and supporting a vast ecosystem of developers and partners, customers can build today's applications using technologies they choose. In addition, they have the flexibility to deploy in an environment that can be both local and public multi-cloud. " noted Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO of Red Hat

Red Hat OpenShift 4

On May 8, 2019, Red Hat introduced Red Hat OpenShift 4, the next generation of the Kubernetes corporate platform, completely redesigned to meet the requirements of orchestration of containers in production systems.

According to the company, the OpenShift 4 platform is designed to implement cloud capabilities in the hybrid cloud by automating updates at all points of deployment of Kubernetes. With increased flexibility for developers and support for Kubernetes Operators, the platform helps to lay a more robust and consistent foundation for running both existing and emerging cloud workloads. As of May 2019, the OpenShift platform is being used to accelerate the development and delivery of its applications to more than 1,000 organizations from various industries around the world.

The Red Hat OpenShift 4 platform simplifies the deployment of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, enabling IT to accelerate application deployment and helping businesses thrive and differentiate their offerings in increasingly competitive markets.

The Red Hat OpenShift 4 platform is designed to work in different environments and marks the next era of the Kubernetes standard for automating and applying practices to modern application platforms. Red Hat OpenShift 4 is used as a unified cloud system in the world of hybrid technologies and allows you to implement approaches with maximum automation at the expense of:

• A self-driving platform for the hybrid cloud that provides a convenient cloud experience by automating software upgrades and lifecycle management across the hybrid cloud through the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS basics. This provides added security, auditing, repeatability, ease of management, and user friendliness.
• Customization capabilities and heterogeneous support that will be available in 2019 from major cloud service providers, including Alibaba, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, as well as for private cloud technologies such as OpenStack, virtualization platforms and bare metal servers.
• Simplified installation of the complete stack through process automation facilitates and accelerates the start of work with the Kubernetes enterprise platform.
• Simplify application deployment and lifecycle management with Kubernetes Operators. Red Hat Corporation was the first to offer the ability to launch complex stateful applications on Kubernetes with the release of the Operators solution, which allows you to automate the maintenance of applications, their scaling, as well as failover. OpenShift 4 offers Red Hat OpenShift Certified Operators. Thanks to Red Hat's interaction with a vast partner ecosystem, today OpenShift 4 includes many different applications that can be launched as a service in a hybrid cloud.

The Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is a certified and standards-compliant Kubernetes platform, as confirmed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This is a corporate solution Kubernetes, built on the basis of the corporate Linux platform and based on the expertise of the open source community and a compatible ecosystem.

To provide an even more flexible implementation model with improved security and high stability, the OpenShift 4 platform introduced Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS, an embedded (compact) version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, specially developed for OpenShift. The introduction of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS provides enterprises with an additional choice when implementing the Kubernetes corporate platform in the form of a light, completely unchanged, optimized for Linux distribution containers. In this version of the distribution, security and stability issues are still given the highest priority, with automatic updates managed by Kubernetes and included in the OpenShift with one click of a button. This helps reduce maintenance work and increase business productivity.

Application development is a mandatory attribute for many IT companies, especially given the increasing role of such developments in accelerating digital transformation. The OpenShift 4 platform supports growing application development needs and acts as a single platform to help optimize developer productivity. In particular, it implements the following features:

• Application Self-Service, Automation, and Deployment Services, which help developers extend the capabilities of their applications by providing on-demand application services and automating build and deployment processes for container applications through Operators.
• Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces workspaces, which allow developers to use the full power of containers and Kubernetes, provide already familiar integrated development tools (IDEs) that they use in their daily work. CodeReady Workspaces offer an even more homogeneous, secure, and collaborative environment than when running containers or virtual machines on a laptop. This includes tools and dependencies for creating code, building, testing, running, and debugging container applications in the Web IDE.
• The OpenShift Service Mesh solution, which combines Istio, Jaeger and Kiali projects and forms a single tool for "encoding" communication logic in microservice-based application architectures. Thanks to it, development teams can focus on business logic.
• Knative for building serverless applications in Developer Preview, which makes Kubernetes a suitable platform for building, deploying, and managing server-free workloads and "function-as-a-service" (FaaS) formats. Among characteristics of Knative it is possible to note possibilities of minimization of resources (scale-to-zero), an autoscaling, intracluster assembly (in-cluster builds) and support of event platforms (eventing frameworks) for development of native cloudy applications in Kubernetes. All this allows developers to focus on writing code, while the complex processes of building, deploying, and managing their applications remain hidden.
• KEDA (Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling - event scaling based on Kubernetes), a joint development of Microsoft and Red Hat, which supports the deployment of server-free event containers in Kubernetes, ensuring the work of Azure Functions in OpenShift, in Developer Preview. All this allows you to speed up the development of event-free features both in the hybrid cloud and locally on the Red Hat OpenShift platform.
• The environment for deploying Operator-enabled applications in OpenShift and Red Hat Middleware enables you to realize the full potential of OpenShift Certified Operators with critical integration and process automation. This allows IT organizations to unify their development environments based on Operator capabilities, so developers can focus on building next-generation services and applications without worrying about upgrading or maintaining their tools.
• Container storage Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4 with support for Operator, as of May 2019 is under development. It offers highly scalable persistent storage for cloud applications that require features such as, enciphering replication, or availability in a hybrid cloud. Application teams can dynamically provision persistent volumes for a wide variety of workload types, including/, databases SQLNoSQL continuous integration processes, and continuous application deployment, technologies/. artificial intelligence machine learning

The Red Hat OpenShift 4 platform will be available in June 2019.

author = Ashesh Badani, Red Hat Senior Vice President, Cloud Platforms The future of enterprise IT is driven by hybrid and multi-cloud computing, with Kubernetes serving as a bridge to seamlessly connect workloads in local data centers and the public cloud. Red Hat OpenShift 4 allows you to realize this role of Kubernetes, providing a consistent, self-driving corporate platform Kubernetes, which covers a hybrid cloud. OpenShift 4 increases developer productivity while helping to reduce operational complexity through native automation, and offers the Kubernetes platform, which combines cloud innovation and readiness to work in a production environment.

Entry of Azure Red Hat OpenShift into the commercial market

May 7, 2019 Red Hat released to the commercial market developed together with, Microsoft software which serves to launch container applications in the Azure cloud and local environments.

Azure Red Hat OpenShift is the first joint Red Hat and Microsoft solution designed to work with the OpenShift platform  in the public cloud. This platform allows you to use Docker and Kubernetes in the corporate sector  and includes Kubernetes for orchestrating and managing containers.

When we started offering OpenShift as a managed service, we just did it ourselves. However, we planned to work with the three main public clouds, "says Joe Fernandes, vice president of cloud platforms at Red Hat. - When the time came to work Azure, we were eventually contacted by Microsoft to see if we could cooperate on this issue. We thought it was great because we were sitting in the same place at the table.

Azure customers can take advantage of the technology-driven pricing policy by providing all the resources, cluster management, updates, patches, and security that Microsoft and Red Hat offer.  Users receive a single subscription, registration, service management, and technical support.  Payments for Azure Red Hat OpenShift will also be included in Azure's current customer accounts.

In addition, Azure-version OpenShift will inherit Azure's regulatory compliance with various standards and certificates.

In addition to Microsoft, Red Hat has OpenShift agreements with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google, CRN notes.

In May 2019, Microsoft and Red Hat announced a collaboration to create container versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 on Azure, Red Hat Anonymous Engine 2.8 and Anonymous Certified.^[2]

2018: Red Hat and Microsoft announce joint OpenShift solution on Azure platform

In May 2018, Red Hat and Microsoft announced the expansion of their alliance in order to provide enterprise application developers with the opportunity to run container applications in the Microsoft Azure cloud and at local computing power using the first joint OpenShift solution based on Red Hat OpenShift for the public Microsoft Azure cloud.

The transition of organizations to container application technologies and Kubernetes for digital transformation and market compliance creates a request for solutions for simple universal orchestration and maintenance of applications in the public cloud and enterprise data center. Red Hat and Microsoft will jointly design and implement such a solution called Red Hat OpenShift on Azure, which will be provided technical support and managed for the benefit of customers by the joint efforts of both companies and will become their priority offer for those who simultaneously use the products and services of Red Hat and Microsoft.

In addition to the fact that Red Hat OpenShift on Azure will completely free enterprise application developers from platform maintenance tasks, the solution will also provide them with the following benefits:

• Flexibility - Freedom to move applications between data center and Azure cloud with a single, universal OpenShift platform for hybrid clouds
• Speed is a fast and secure hybrid network that combines the Azure platform and local clusters OpenShift
• Productivity - Access Azure services such as Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure SQL DB for efficient application development

By choosing Red Hat OpenShift on Azure, the customer will receive a service that is provided by Red Hat and Microsoft and provided with their joint support. Support will extend to both companies' container applications, as well as operating systems, infrastructure components and orchestration tools. In addition, Red Hat and Microsoft sales services will work together to promote the technology platforms of both companies as a basis for cloud applications and upgrade existing IT systems.

A single OpenShift platform for a hybrid cloud based on Microsoft Azure and the enterprise data center will allow the customer to easily move enterprise applications between environments. In addition, the new joint initiative between Microsoft and Red Hat will also have the following benefits:

A hybrid cloud that fully supports Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in a local environment and on the Microsoft Azure Stack platform offers a versatile foundation for developing, deploying and maintaining cloud applications in a Microsoft-based IT infrastructure, helping to combine the computing power of the Azure cloud platform with high flexibility and manageability of local configuration OpenShift based on Azure Stack

Manage Windows Server-based containers and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat OpenShift on Microsoft - a single orchestration platform for different container architectures

Advanced data processing by integrating Microsoft SQL Server into the Red Hat OpenShift IT landscape. SQL Server container version certified for use on Red Hat OpenShift on Azure and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform platforms in hybrid cloud including Azure Stack will be released shortly

New ways to use Red Hat products with Microsoft development tools. With support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Visual Studio Enterprise and Visual Studio Professional subscribers for the first time will be able to work with.NET, Java and other popular open source development platforms on one universal and fully supported platform

2017

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7

Red Hat on November 17, 2017 announced the release of the next version of its corporate container application platform based on Kubernetes technology - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform brings together application development and IT operations to provide a versatile platform for consistent application construction, deployment, and maintenance across hybrid cloud infrastructures. The platform is based on open source innovations and industry standards such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Kubernetes.

The updated Kubernetes platform includes built-in integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) service brokers, which allow developers to link services through AWS and local resources to create modern applications, providing a basis for consistent business development built on open standards.

As you know, today's digital transformation applications are increasingly dependent on a combination of loosely coupled components and microservices, making it very difficult to work together with different types of cloud platforms and service providers. The updated Red Hat platform is designed to help deal with this problem.

Structure of platform 3.7

So, the OpenShift Container Platform version 3.7 included:

• A OpenShift Service Catalog that allows you to connect any application on the OpenShift platform to a wide range of services deployed locally or in the cloud.
  • OpenShift Service Catalog enables users to search, prepare and link services to OpenShift applications at the same time, and administrators to provide services to end users more securely and systematized. As a result, developers can create and use services without delving into the details of their implementation, and fully focus on solving application problems when creating business innovations.

• Template Broker OpenShift Template Broker, which allows you to easily create services based on OpenShift Template templates and make them available to developers of OpenShift applications.
  • The OpenShift Template is a list of OpenShift objects that can be implemented with the specified parameters, making it easier to deploy reusable applications assembled from microservices.

• Broker OpenShift Anonymous Broker, designed to prepare and manage services in the OpenShift Service Catalog using the Anonymous automation tools.
  • With the Possible broker, users can build end-to-end services that include components that run on and off the OpenShift platform, making it easier to automate complex processes that involve applications and services deployed locally and in the cloud.

OpenShift Service Catalog

Service Catalog on the OpenShift Container Platform provides access to Red Hat technologies for hybrid clouds such as:

• Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes - a set of supported executable components that lower the entry threshold when building and deploying cloud-oriented applications (as of November 17, 2017, it is in beta stage)
• Red Hat Container-Native Storage 3.6 is an enterprise-class software storage system based on Red Hat Gluster Storage, designed to store containers in the data center and in the cloud.

Integration with AWS services

As of November 17, 2017, the following AWS services are available through Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7:

• Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS)
• Amazon Route 53
• Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3)
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
• Amazon ElastiCache
• Amazon Redshift
• Amazon DynamoDB
• Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)

Safety

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 also offers a number of features to improve security and ease of use. Among them:

• Network Policy Module - Upgraded from Technology Preview to a fully supported component and allows the project administrator to apply network rules and policies to the incoming traffic of a specified container block (OpenShift pod)
• Prometheus (Tech Preview) module - implements the functions of the monitoring and warning system within the framework of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 platform and is based on the CNCF project.

Red Hat and Microsoft Simplify Handling Containers in Enterprise Environments

On August 24, Microsoft and Red Hat announced plans to further expand their alliance in order to facilitate the introduction of container technologies in the corporate sector. In particular, the companies plan to realize support konteynerovwindows Server on the Red Hat OpenShift platform, support of Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on the Microsoft Azure platform and also support of SQL Server on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift platforms. As planned by partners, this will simplify the handling of containers and help accelerate the digital transformation of enterprises using hybrid clouds. All these solutions will be provided with joint support from Microsoft and Red Hat.

Windows Server containers on the OpenShift platform

While enterprise customers are aware of the benefits of container applications when running workloads, most organizations live in heterogeneous IT environments where Windows and Linux platforms are separated by an application-tight wall, making it difficult to upgrade and scale IT systems and businesses in general. Microsoft and Red Hat plan to reduce this problem by allowing Windows Server containers to run on the Red Hat OpenShift enterprise-class platform. After the implementation of the announced plans, Red Hat OpenShift will be one of the first container platforms built on the basis of the open project Kubernetes, which will allow you to run Linux and Windows workloads on all infrastructure platforms of the hybrid cloud.

It is planned that support for Windows Server containers on the Red Hat OpenShift platform, first demonstrated in May 2017 at the Red Hat Summit event, will be presented in the spring of 2018 in the version of Technology Preview.

OpenShift Dedicated on Azure and RHEL on Azure Stack

Cloud-oriented applications and related container platforms are known to be a key condition for digital transformation, but building and maintaining an appropriate IT infrastructure is a complex and time-consuming task for many organizations. Red Hat and Microsoft offer to solve this problem using the Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated service on the Azure platform.

Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated is a container platform that Red Hat provides to the customer in the form of a cloud service. Companies plan to make this service available on the Microsoft Azure enterprise-class cloud platform.

Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on the Microsoft Azure platform will allow enterprise IT services to focus entirely on application solutions without being distracted by IT infrastructure maintenance and support. The release of Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on the Microsoft Azure platform is expected in early 2018.

Partners also plan to jointly develop enterprise performance standards and provide integrated support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux workloads on the Microsoft Azure Stack platform, an internal Azure extension designed to deploy to customer computing capacity using certified hardware, and Dell HP Lenovo to Cisco quickly and easily organize an enterprise-based cloud. DPC

SQL Server on RHEL and OpenShift platforms

Microsoft and Red Hat plan to introduce SQL Server for Linux for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift platforms, which, like all company initiatives, will be provided with joint technical support from Microsoft and Red Hat.

Video interview with representatives of Red Hat and Microsoft on the expansion of the alliance of companies, 2017.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6

On August 10, 2017, Red Hat announced the release of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6.

The product helps address security, compliance, and consistency issues in cloud-based applications. It provides guidance on how to apply the PCI DSS payment card data security standard, advanced options for configuring management and network access policies, and consistent application delivery in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 is an enterprise-class container platform based on Kubernetes 1.6 and OCRed Hat Enterprise Linux technology with an integrated docker container runtime. Combining these open source technologies, Red Hat helps accelerate the launch of services through a reliable, stable and secure container platform based on the enterprise Linux distribution.

• The PCI DSS Standard Implementation Guide helps organizations that accept, store, or transmit bank cards understand how the PCI DSS payment card industry data security standard affects Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, and what aspects need to be addressed when implementing this platform.
• Encryption of secrets and electronic signature of images. OpenShift 3.6 can encrypt currently unused secrets into backend storage, and also allows administrators to enter a mandatory electronic signature of project image content so that platform software clients can only work on systems where they are allowed to.
• The enhanced NetworkPolicy module (in the version of Technology Preview) provides advanced and more detailed control over how applications can communicate with each other and provide network resources. NetworkPolicy allows you to regulate the availability of services, limiting the range of those who have access to a specific application over the network.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 makes it easy to find and use services.

• The service broker and service catalog (version of Technology Preview) facilitate the search, preparation and binding of application services to applications OpenShift regardless of the physical location of services - in the data center or in the public cloud.
• The OpenShift template broker (Technology Preview version) allows you to select OpenShift templates to deploy multi-container application services using the service catalog interface.
• The Possible Scenario Broker (version of Technology Preview) allows you to use Anonymous automation scenarios to deploy application services on the OpenShift platform and simplifies application linking regardless of the location of services - in the OpenShift cluster or elsewhere, including the public cloud.
• Integrated installation of Container Native Storage based on Red Hat Gluster Storage - highly available storage for the OpenShift registry with three-way replication, as well as permanent storage ready for use after installation of the OpenShift.

On August 9, 2017, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 is available for download.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5

On April 17, 2017, Red Hat announced the release of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5.

Red Hat combined Kubernetes 1.5 technology, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Docker execution environment in this version of the container application platform, providing everything necessary to deploy services on an enterprise platform based on the enterprise Linux distribution.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 extends the range of supported applications with the following features:

• StatefulSets - Despite the fact that Kubernetes supports stateful services through the management of integrated repositories and other similar functions, many traditional services for the enterprise sector, such as SQL databases and message queues, require more capabilities to customize individual service instances in the cluster. The StatefulSets functionality available in the Tech Preview version allows you to use the traditional automation functionality for Kubernetes when scaling and declarative health control of traditional stateful services, which makes it possible to move them from physical servers and virtual machines to containers.
• Java for Cloud Applications - in version 3.5, the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform offers an image of a Java container for cloud workloads that allows enterprise developers to focus entirely on programming cloud Java applications, since the platform takes on all the tasks associated with compiling and assembling executable modules through the OpenShift S2I (source-to-image) functionality.
• Advanced Development Tools - The Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform version supports Red Hat Software Collections, selected and tested libraries of development tools and programming languages, including updates for Redis, MySQL, PHP and other products.

Enhanced container security

Industrial use of containers requires a number of security considerations, including core-level container isolation, assembly of container images from trusted content, platform access for authorized users only, and secure application installation mode. The Red Hat version for container applications offers customers an enterprise version of Kubernetes, supplemented with security features:

• Certificate Management - Certificates in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform allow activities in the Kubernetes cluster only to authorized users and platform components. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 offers certificate management tools, including certificate expiration notifications and renewal tools.
• Secret - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 element management provides detailed management of Secret elements, including identification of their owners. These elements are used to store secret information, such as passwords, when installing applications on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 platform.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4

On January 18, 2017, Red Hat announced the release of OpenShift Container Platform 3.4. The release of the enterprise-class container platform Red Hat is based on the recent version of the Kubernetes 1.4 container management system. It implements dynamic storage capabilities and improves the dashboard.

The most interesting features of Kubernetes 1.4 relate to dynamic storage allocation and related functionality, such as tier labeling. Joe Fernandez, Senior Director, Red Hat Product Management OpenShift

Deploy container storage on Red Hat OpenShift Container, (2017)

Through dynamic storage, organizations can use different types of back-end storage, tied to the quality of service tokens used by Kubernetes. The real storage element in Kubernetes 1.4 is the API-based abstraction layer that Red Hat uses to integrate its Gluster Storage system with OpenShift Container Platform^[3]

In Kubernetes, the Persistent Volume subsystem provides a storage abstraction API that can orchestrate various types of storage, including storage plugins for NFS, iSCSI, Fiber Channel, Gluster, Ceph, Amazon, Google, etc. From the point of view of Red Hat, it is such advanced container orchestration capabilities as storage orchestration that make Kubernetes the leading solution in this field. Joe Fernandez

Red Hat Gluster Storage can run on a dedicated storage cluster (outside of Openshift/Kubernetes) and this subsystem can be accessed through the network from applications embedded in containers running outside the OpenShift.

Red Hat Gluster Storage provides users with a OpenShift holistic storage platform in the hybrid cloud. Red Hat Ceph Storage continues to play the role of a single storage window OpenStack for Cinder, Manila and Swift. "

In addition to the storage capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4, there are scheduled tasks that allow you to run batch processes on a schedule, support for the installation of Kubernetes and the removal of "pod eviction."

The release includes an upgraded web management console. OpenShift The Web Console provided by Red Hat is not part of the main branch of Kubernetes, although it uses concepts similar to the user interface concepts of the main branch of this project.

Web console enhancements include multi-user mode management. They make it easier for cluster administrators to find, allocate users, manage quotas, and more.

2016

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3

On September 27, 2016, Red Hat announced the secure container platform Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 enterprise class.

The announced release offers the ability to scale and develop applications for deployment in hybrid cloud environments. The system allows you to efficiently build and maintain both traditional and upgraded cloud applications, providing support throughout the lifecycle, from development to operation.

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 offers a single, versatile, secure enterprise-class platform for working with Linux containers and their management technologies, which contains advanced application development and installation tools. As part of OpenShift Container Platform 3.3, the enterprise version of Kubernetes 1.3 and the Docker container runtime are integrated with the underlying Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 operating system.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 offers:

Tools to improve performance and agility of application developers

• Today's IT realities are such that developers need to bring new or updated applications into service as quickly as possible, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform offers new tools to automate the development lifecycle using Jenkins Pipeline open-source delivery pipelines, as well as dashboards that allow developers to visually monitor the status of these pipelines. The Red Hat platform version also offers improved A/B testing capabilities by more detailed monitoring of application routing configurations through built-in OpenShift routing tools and software-defined network components.

Large-scale deployments

• With the adoption of cloud technologies dramatically increasing the requirements for scalability and flexibility of computing platforms, Red Hat significantly increased the scalability of OpenShift Container Platform, providing support for up to 1,000 nodes in a single computing cluster. As a result, the Red Hat platform version can be used for large-scale deployment in hybrid cloud environments not only of new cloud applications, but also of traditional systems already available. In addition, with built-in Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 provides proactive monitoring and prevention of situations that lead to resource shortages and unplanned downtime.

Enterprise-level protection

• Security is one of the key factors in the decision to switch an organization to Linux container technologies. OpenShift offers a secure, enterprise-class container platform with top-notch technical support at all levels of the solution, from the platform itself to the underlying platform, operating system Linux to integrated application services. The OpenShift platform is based on the operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux most reliable and secure Linux enterprise-class platform, and automatically inherits all the security benefits of this OS, including continuous updates. Moving to a higher level of security, it is worth noting the container runtime environment, Docker which is integrated with Security Enhanced Linux for additional protection in a multi-lease environment, as well as the integrated OpenShift container registry, which allows administrators to manage container images in a format, Docker including updating and controlling access to images. The registry in OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 also received a number of improvements in terms of user, group, and project control, including the ability to view additional image information and control access to the image. Version OpenShift also offers built-in user authorization and role-based access control tools for Kubernetes mechanisms that integrate with enterprise directories, LDAP as well as built-in security policies that regulate container startup, allowing administrators to centrally control user access, permissions, quotas, and rights to receive and run images.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 will be available for download on September 27, 2016.

Interface for the OpenShift Container Platform

On July 8, 2016, Red Hat announced the launch of an interface to connect to the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (formerly OpenShift Enterprise) container security scanners created by Red Hat^[4] partners^[4]

According to the developers, the technology of containers passed the stage of experiments and became part of corporate reality, which brought security issues to the forefront. The integration of the Red Hat platform with several third-party container scanners allows the customer to better understand what works in a particular container, whether it uses the latest security patches. The described functionality is implemented as part of the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, the operating system based on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform solution.

As part of the expansion of cooperation with Black Duck Software, Red Hat integrated Black Duck Hub open tools into Atomic Host as a container security scanner. This scanner provides in-depth validation of many open source components used in the OS user space, applications, and libraries that developers can add to containers.

The scanner checks the container for known vulnerabilities in the open source software and dynamically monitors the contents of the container, giving warnings when new vulnerabilities related to the software code of the container occur. Black Duck Hub works as part of Atomic Host and allows you to monitor the safety of all container images and components throughout the life cycle - from development to operation - and regardless of the size of the scale of the system.

In addition, to verify the security of containers, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host has a preliminary version of the OpenSCAP scanner. The Open Security Content Automation Protocol (OpenSCAP) is an ecosystem of tools and policies for evaluating, measuring, and applying IT security measures. The scanner is OpenSCAP integrated with Atomic Host and checks the contents of containers to help identify vulnerabilities quickly.

The latest version of Atomic Host offers additional properties:

• Updated container runtimes - Docker or Open Container Initiative (OCI), as selected by the user
• Optimized systemd integration - simplifies the transfer of existing applications to containers
• Optimized upgrade mode - operational software fixes between major releases
• graphical management console - simplifies the execution of administration tasks, including updating through the Cockpit remote management service.

Customers are certainly attracted to the agility that containers provide, but they are not willing to risk critical systems and applications by relying on containers with unknown content or not supported. That is why Red Hat pays so much attention to container safety. Although security is important in all industries, there are no universal solutions that suit all customers, especially given the variety of Linux container deployment scenarios. This is really a big problem, and the new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host with simplified integration of third-party security scanners allows the organization to choose exactly the scanner that suits it better than the rest.

Each new survey only confirms that corporate customers are willing to use containers because of their performance and cost advantages. However, the same surveys point to serious concerns, as the issue of container security and power of attorney remains open. Integrating Black Duck and Red Hat products is a big step towards creating a container model with greater security and power of attorney.

2015: OpenShift Dedicated

On December 16, 2015, Red Hat announced the launch of the OpenShift Dedicated cloud service for enterprise customers and developers. As part of the service, Docker containers and Kubernetes orchestration technology from the OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 solution and represents the further development of the cloud service OpenShift Online^[5].

With the launch of the OpenShift Dedicated service, Red Hat offers the third option for using its products and services OpenShift PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service):

• OpenShift Enterprise - helps organizations deploy instances of OpenShift at their own computing capacity or using the services of certified suppliers;
• OpenShift Online - offers individual developers and programmer teams access to a dedicated instance of OpenShift in the public Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud;
• OpenShift Dedicated - an offer for enterprise customers that allows you to use Red Hat technologies to organize, maintain and support instances of OpenShift in the AWS cloud.

As part of OpenShift Dedicated Core Service Package, an isolated custom computing environment for the customer and a pool of resources from 100 GB fixed SSD storage, 48 TB/s I/O network, and nine nodes for container applications.

Administrative and security tools allow the customer to configure secure access to their cloud environment using VPN and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). OpenShift Dedicated also provides platform-based OpenShift applications, access to Red Hat JBoss Middleware container-optimized services, and business process integration and management tools.

Availability

As of December 17, 2015, OpenShift Dedicated is available to customers Red Hat in all service regions. hosting AWS

2014

Microsoft.NET Support

Red Hat implemented support for Microsoft .NET and SQL Server in the spring of 2014 in the PaaS service OpenShift Origin. Support for.NET was done without any official assistance from Microsoft, one of the main competitors of Red Hat, exclusively by Uhuru Software. Former top Microsoft officials head this company - Vice President Javad Khaki and General Manager Javaid Ekram^[6].

End users will benefit from this project: now they can develop cloud.NET systems by programming on C#, receiving 'native' code and not caring about problems with scaling and security - application software will run in isolated Windows sandboxes. In addition, all OpenShift platform management and monitoring tools will be available to users. The source texts of the OpenShift.Net project are freely available on the GitHub.

OpenShift Enterprise 2.1

In May 2014 Red Hat , she announced that she had released OpenShift Enterprise 2.1, the next generation of her cloud platform-as-a-service solution (PaaS). This edition of OpenShift Enterprise, in accordance with Red Hat, is intended "for further inclusion (DevOps methodology in development ON aimed at communication, interaction and integration of software development specialists and specialists in information technology), by providing new opportunities within the framework of the PaaS platform, which brings development and operations closer. With OpenShift Enterprise 2.1, Red Hat presents summary log and metric management, offering new versions of application programming languages, increasing the availability of applications with a new concept of zones and regions, a new plug-in interface that will better integrate operations with existing management policies in the PaaS platform, by providing new ways to integrate and work with a large number of groups in enterprise organizations and adding intelligence to the platform for automatic resolution of application services problems. "

For realization of all this in OpenShift Enterprise 2.1 there are several new functions. These include: Updated MySQL 5.5 and PHP 5.4 cartridges with OpenShift Enterprise rights, allowing OpenShift to offer proven security and bug fixes, including platform and content technical support. Python 3.3 and MongoDB 2.4 cartridges will be added shortly in release 2.1x.

A new collection and consolidation method for platform and application logs. Plus, a new way to collect and store attributes of key performance of the operating system and application services.

The application capabilities provided by the OpenShift reasonably cover the infrastructure through zones in the regions, increasing the resilience of the services provided by the OpenShift.

The embedded interface allows the integration of OpenShift with comprehensive policies so that the data center complies with regulations, ITIL (technology infrastructure library), or allows you to change management tools.

Implement commands as an interface for integrating an LDAP group (lightweight directory access protocol) with user-defined OpenShift management functions.

Release an observant daemon to help automate common tools to help administrators scale the platform more efficiently PaaS

OpenShift Enterprise 2.1 is available for download for customers in North America, the UK, continental Europe and parts of Asia and Latin America, including Australia, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Japan, Argentina and Brazil.

2012

Source Code Opened

Red Hat published in April 2012 the source codes of its proposed platform in the form of a OpenShift service: from now on, developers will be able to execute it on personal computers, and sisadmins in data centers. It will be possible to use different sets of basic cloud technologies, including OpenStack.

OpenShift was launched last year as an alternative to VMware Cloud Foundry. The Red Hat platform can run programs in Java, PHP, Python, Perl and Ruby. At the same time, various databases and caching tools are available to them, as well as the Red Hat JBoss application server. Since the end of last year, tools for automating the assembly of Maven and Jenkins development projects have appeared on the service.

Until now, OpenShift has been offered only as a service in the Amazon EC2 cloud. Now it can be integrated with arbitrary binding software and used as a component of new cloud stacks.

The opensource project of the platform was called OpenShift Origin, Red Hat will use it to develop a commercial version of the service. The code base is licensed under Apache License v2.

Enterprise Cloud Version OpenShift

Red Hat introduced the development of open source cloud operating systems in the fall of 2012. On November 27, she released an enterprise version of the OpenShift system. This system is a new PaaS package designed for local deployment in data centers or within private, public, or hybrid clouds.

This version, according to Red Hat representatives, allows you to standardize the main stages of developers' activities when creating applications for cloud architecture.

First open source PaaS package for local deployment to large enterprises

For the first time, Red Hat announced the development of an expanded PaaS package in May this year. Company officials say it is the first open source PaaS system for local enterprise deployment.

Red Hat also has a free online version of OpenShift PaaS, which has passed beta testing with several hundred users over 18 months.

The enterprise version of the OpenShift system is an environment in which developers can create scalable and fully configured applications for cloud application, as well as test and place them in the cloud infrastructure. This enables developers to focus on developing new application services.

Red Hat also emphasizes that its Enhanced Security Linux (SELinux) provides sufficient security by adequately isolating different instances of compute nodes from each other.

Advanced stack of software components

The enterprise version of the package OpenShift built on the basis of an advanced stack of open source software components, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and OpenShift Origin, which are the basis of the existing online service OpenShift PaaS.

With the inclusion of the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 package in the enterprise version of the system OpenShift this system becomes the only PaaS package for enterprises that is certified with respect to the Java EE 6 specification.

The enterprise version of the OpenShift package originates from the Origin project, which was developed on the basis of open code. Being multilingual, it supports languages ​ ​ such as Java, Ruby, Python, PHP and Perl. In addition, with a component architecture, it allows the user to add their own connecting services.

Red Hat provides technical support for this version of the OpenShift package. This product is currently available in North America, Great Britain and continental Europe. In the future, it will be available in other countries.

The online version of the PaaS platform OpenShift remains available as a preview version for developers on the site http://openshift.redhat.com.

2011

Platform OpenShift

The OpenShift platform was launched in May 2011 and supports programs written in Java, PHP, Python, Perl and Ruby. The platform supports a number of popular DBMSs and caching tools, as well as the JBoss application server.

Integration with JBoss Tools allows you to write programs on the developer's computer, and compile and run on the OpenShift platform. The Jenkins Continuous Integration Server automatically includes code changes made by different participants in the development project in the main copy placed in the OpenShift, and Maven automates the assembly of the project, monitors the various libraries used in the project, and downloads them to the OpenShift if necessary.

Use of the platform is now free of charge. Next year, Red Hat plans to complete the creation of billing and support systems, after which the OpenShift will be paid.

Red Hat cloud solutions are unique. Unlike other approaches, Red Hat gives its customers a choice. Choose a platform, choose virtualization, choose a cloud provider. A choice that only the open code leader can provide.

Red Hat CloudForms enables you to create and manage private and hybrid clouds using Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). OpenShift is a cloud platform available in the form of a service on Amazon sites and designed for developers.

The benefit of using cloud services lies primarily in significant savings on the cost of ownership of IT: the user pays only for actually consumed resources. The computing power is added as needed. But this is not even the main thing.

CloudForms allows you to quickly create cloud services, drawing resources from almost anywhere: from physical systems, virtualization systems, public clouds of certified Red Hat cloud providers - Amazon EC2, Fujitsu,, IBM Savvis. CloudForms is not platform-specific: the solution runs on virtualization, and VMware Microsoft Hyper-V Red Hat.

OpenShift

The platform OpenShift two open source packages designed to manage the development and deployment of applications - Maven and Jenkins. In addition, the JBoss Tools development environment, also created in Red Hat, is fully integrated with OpenShift.

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