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Red Hat, a global provider of open-source software solutions, has introduced new capabilities and enhancements for Red Hat OpenShift, the company’s hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes, along with the general availability of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service. Delivered with the availability of Red Hat OpenShift version 4.16, the new features are designed to help organizations more easily develop, connect and enhance the security of diverse workloads for a more consistent experience across applications and environments.
As organizations steer their decision-making in support of current and emerging AI applications, they look to future-proof platform solutions that can balance the demands of their legacy applications and environments with the needs of tomorrow. The updates and improvements of OpenShift 4.16 represent a streamlined way for organizations to make incremental steps towards modernizing their architecture without sacrificing the performance of mission-critical applications.
The latest enhancements to Red Hat OpenShift are designed to help organizations connect their diverse workloads to create a more consistent application management experience for traditional and advanced applications across the hybrid cloud.
New features include:
Metro disaster recovery provides regional disaster recovery for virtual machines (VMs) that use storage deployed on Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation in conjunction with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes for management.
Hot-add CPU provides users the ability to add additional vCPU resources to a running VM in a declarative manner for improved memory density with safe memory overcommit and enables users to more easily scale up VMs with CPU hotplug.
Multi-cluster virtualization monitoring with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management enables users to view all VMs across multiple Red Hat OpenShift clusters as well as collect and more quickly build reports for the VMs.
Improving Customer Experience at the Edge
Minimizing service downtime is critical to delivering a quality experience for customers and is particularly important for those applications at the edge. Red Hat OpenShift 4.16 introduces a “shift left” approach with image-based updates (IBU) for single node OpenShift. Single node OpenShift users can now shift a large portion of the update process to a pre-production environment, which reduces the time spent updating at the production site. Additionally, if an update fails or the application doesn’t return to a functioning state, it can be rolled back to the pre-update state. This helps to restore service as quickly as possible, regardless of whether the update is successful or not.
Scaling Workload Security Across the Hybrid Cloud
According to Red Hat’s 2024 State of Kubernetes Security Report, security issues continue to impact business outcomes, with 67% of respondents indicating that their companies delayed or slowed application development as a result of rising concerns.
To help organizations securely deploy and maintain cloud applications at scale, the company has announced the general availability of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service, a fully managed Kubernetes-native security cloud service that supports both Red Hat OpenShift as well as non-Red Hat Kubernetes platforms, including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). With Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service, organizations can start securing workloads while scaling more easily across clouds and geographies without additional overhead or complexities.