Enterprise Kubernetes platform designed to
simplify storage for containerized applications, streamline
multi-tenant deployments in hybrid cloud computing environments
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red
Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4, the latest version of its
container application platform. Red Hat helps organizations like
Discovery Health and Pioneer better embrace new technologies, such
as Linux containers, that can deliver innovative business
applications and services without sacrificing existing IT
investments. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 provides a
platform for this innovation while retaining a focus on existing
mission-critical workloads, offering dynamic storage provisioning
for both traditional and cloud-native applications and multi-tenant
capabilities that can support multiple applications, teams and
deployment processes in a hybrid cloud environment.
As a leading contributor to both the docker and Kubernetes
projects, the latest version of Red Hat’s container application
platform provides an enterprise-ready version of Kubernetes 1.4 and
the docker container runtime. This helps customers to more quickly
roll out new services with the backing of a stable, reliable and
more secure enterprise platform powered by the latest version of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the world’s leading enterprise Linux
platform.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 integrates the
architectures, processes and services to enable delivery of
critical business applications, from traditional and legacy
applications to cloud-native and containerized workloads. New
capabilities in the latest version include:
- Next-level container storage
with support for dynamic storage provisioning, allowing multiple
storage types to be provisioned, and multi-tier storage exposure
via quality-of-service labels in Kubernetes. Container-native
storage, enabled by Red Hat Gluster Storage, which now supports
dynamic provisioning and push button deployment, enhances the user
experience running stateful and stateless applications on Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform. It makes the consumption and
provisioning of application storage easier for developers to use.
With Red Hat Gluster Storage, OpenShift customers get the added
benefit of a software-defined, highly available and scalable
storage solution that works across on-premises and public cloud
environments and one that can be more cost efficient than
traditional hardware-based or cloud-only storage services.
- Enhanced multi-tenancy through
more simplified management of projects, a feature powered by
Kubernetes namespaces, in a single Kubernetes cluster. Multiple
developer teams, applications and lifecycle environments can run
fully isolated and share resources on a single Kubernetes cluster
in OpenShift Container Platform. Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 3.4 adds the capacity to search for projects, project
details, manage project membership and more via a more streamlined
web console, making it easier for users to work with multiple
projects across dispersed teams. These multi-tenancy capabilities
enable enterprise IT organizations to provide application
development teams with their own cloud-like application environment
to build and deploy customer-facing or internal applications using
DevOps processes that are isolated from one another.
- New hybrid cloud reference
architectures for running Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
on OpenStack, VMware, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud
Engine and Microsoft Azure. These guides help walk a user through
deploying a stable, fault-tolerant, production-grade environment
that uses the power of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform across
public and private clouds, virtual machines and bare metal.
Forming the orchestration backbone of Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform 3.4 is Kubernetes 1.4, which is maintained by
the open source Kubernetes Project community. Kubernetes 1.4
features alpha support for expanded cluster federation APIs, a
feature that can enable multiple clusters federated across a hybrid
environment and a capability that Red Hat views as a key component
to enabling hybrid cloud deployments in the enterprise. As with all
of Red Hat’s enterprise-ready Linux container solutions, the latest
version of OpenShift offers community innovation as hardened,
production-grade features.
Beyond the software, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 is
also backed by Red Hat’s award-winning global support, helping
enterprises to take advantage of the innovation offered by
Kubernetes while knowing that the technology is supported by
on-call technical expertise.
Supporting Linux containers across the hybrid cloud
Red Hat’s expanded container portfolio spans private and fully
managed public cloud offerings, supporting traditional and
cloud-native applications, and different aspects of the application
development process in one solution that can span multiple
infrastructures and enable containers-as-a-service. This includes
local, lab and production environments running in the data center
or public cloud, managed by customers or fully managed by Red Hat.
Additionally, Red Hat also offers a suite of no-cost
developer-focused container tools, including a localized offering
of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, through the Red Hat
Container Developer Kit. Red Hat’s container-optimized solutions
span storage, application services and management technologies, in
addition to these no-cost development tools.
Availability
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 is available today via
the Red Hat Customer Portal. Red Hat Cloud Suite will also feature
the latest container application platform update as a
pre-integrated offering alongside Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red
Hat Virtualization and Red Hat CloudForms.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift,
Red Hat
“While Linux containers represent an innovative future for
enterprise applications, traditional and legacy applications remain
critical to the modern business. Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 3.4 can meet the needs of these existing applications
while providing the tools and services to drive cloud-native
application creation and deployment. The latest version of our
flagship container application platform goes a step beyond simply
creating and deploying applications by addressing the growing
storage needs of both stateful and stateless applications across
the hybrid cloud, allowing for coexistence of modern and
future-forward workloads on a single, enterprise-ready
platform.”
Neil Adamson, CIO, The Vitality Group, a subsidiary of
Discovery
“The Vitality program is a global initiative and rewards program
that encourages healthy behavior for insurance customers. This
program is a key component of how we envision the future of health,
but advanced services for our customers can only be delivered by
embracing next-generation technologies, particularly those provided
through the open source communities that drive Linux containers,
Kubernetes and IoT. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provides
us with the best of these communities while still delivering a
stable, more secure foundation; we're able to reap the benefits of
open source innovation while lessening the risks often inherent to
emerging technologies.”
Kazuhiro Miyamoto, General Manager, Development Department,
Information Service Platform Center, Product Management Division,
Pioneer Corporation
“We have adopted a cloud environment based on Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform and IBM cloud infrastructure services to assist
the development and operation of our latest car navigation system,
‘Super Route Finder.’ As the Super Route Finder also supports the
latest models released in 2016, there was concern about the growing
concentration of access requests from thousands to
tens-of-thousands units. With the expectation of the numbers of
users and various kinds of containers increasing, Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform enables us to implement scalable allocation of
containers, and readily manage respective container applications
more effectively.”
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform 3.4
- Find out more about how Red Hat brings
Kubernetes container orchestration to the enterprise
- Read more about Red Hat OpenShift
Reference Architectures
- Learn more about Red Hat’s enhancements
to container-native storage
- Attend “Containers for the Enterprise:
A Red Hat virtual event” to hear more about Red Hat’s work with
Linux containers
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