Red Hat’s new iteration of Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus is now available with new features and capabilities that go beyond the base Kubernetes platform to include storage, management, and more. The new capabilities further simplify the Kubernetes stack by streamlining and standardizing application development and management from the data center to the edge to multiple public clouds.
Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus provides a more consistent foundation for organizations to drive transformational IT standardization. The latest offering includes the necessary tools to build, protect and manage applications throughout the software lifecycle and across Kubernetes clusters more simply. The technology updates include:
- Red Hat OpenShift 4.11
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.6
- Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.11
“As organizations turn to modern applications to deliver better, more dynamic user experiences, they need a platform that delivers consistency, whether it’s a traditional application in a data center to containerized workloads spanning the edge and multiple public clouds. With today’s updates, Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus remains positioned to provide this consistent foundation along with a comprehensive set of integrated tools for enhanced management, improved data resiliency, and a stronger security posture,” said Joe Fernandes, vice president, and general manager, Platforms Business Group, Red Hat.
Red Hat OpenShift 4.11 – A comprehensive platform for workloads in hybrid cloud
Red Hat OpenShift 4.11 is based on Kubernetes 1.24 and CRI-O 1.24 runtime interface. It makes it easier to consume enterprise Kubernetes as and when needed across the open hybrid cloud. Organizations can now install OpenShift directly from major public cloud marketplaces, including AWS marketplace and Azure marketplace. This gives more flexibility in how organizations want to run OpenShift. This also lets IT teams meet the dynamic technology requirements better.
The latest features and capabilities in Red Hat OpenShift 4.11 are:
- Pod Security Admission integration to help users define different isolation levels for Kubernetes pods for enforcing clearer, more consistent pod behaviors.
- Nutanix users can now use the installer provisioned infrastructure (IPI) process to automatically install OpenShift on supported Nutanix virtualized environments.
- Additional architectures for sandboxed containers, including the ability to run sandboxed containers on AWS and single node OpenShift.
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management – Improved oversight and compliance across hybrid environments
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.6, part of Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, helps users manage their container fleets at the edge and improve availability in high latency, low bandwidth use cases. It provides edge metrics collectors specifically designed for single-node and small workloads, thereby enabling greater observability of remote operations.
Now a single Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management hub cluster can deploy and manage up to 2,500 single-node OpenShift clusters. These clusters can be deployed and managed at the edge through zero-touch provisioning.
It also offers new integrations like:
- Automatic fleet-wide visibility of applications, displaying applications that are created straight through OpenShift.
- Cluster management directly from the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform enables Ansible users to interact with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management natively.
- Integration with Kyverno Policy Set that helps users keep up with changes in Kubernetes policy.
Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.11 – Data services and persistent storage designed for modern workloads
Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.11 helps organizations minimize data loss and business disruption in the event of a failure by including the OpenShift API for data protection. The operator-based application programming interface (API) can back up and restore applications and data specifics, natively or using existing data protection applications across the hybrid cloud.
Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation now offers multicluster monitoring capabilities through Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management. A single view of cluster data management health across multiple clusters leads to reduced operational costs by consolidating cluster management across environments through a single tool.
Availability
Red Hat said in its press release that Red Hat OpenShift 4.11 and Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.11 are now generally available and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.6 will be available by the end of August 2022.
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