OpenShift Platform Plus arrives with big storage improvements
Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus became a single Kubernetes platform thate covers all enterprise computing scenarios, whether it's a traditional data center, distributed operations at the edge, or multiple public cloud environments.
Red Hat Openshift Platform Plus is designed to provide a more consistent foundation for enterprises to drive transformational IT standardization. This all-new offering includes the tools you need to more easily build, secure, and manage applications throughout the software lifecycle and across Kubernetes clusters.
As businesses continue to evolve their operating environments, the need for greater consistency across these heterogeneous footprints increases. Based on both Kubernetes 1.24 and the CRI-O 1.24 runtime interface, Red Hat OpenShift 4.11 is designed to make it easy to consume Kubernetes wherever it's needed in the open hybrid cloud.
The latest version of Red Hat Openshift enables enterprises to install Openshift directly from major public cloud marketplaces, including the AWS Marketplace and the Azure Marketplace. This feature gives businesses more flexibility in how they run OpenShift and enables IT teams to better meet the dynamic and technological requirements needed.
For the part of the novelties that are presented we can find one admission integration with pod security, which allows users to set different Kubernetes pod isolation levels to help enforce clearer and more consistent pod behaviors.
Another novelty is the compatibility with installer-provisioned infrastructure (IPI) in Nutanix, which enables users to use the IPI process to perform a fully automated and integrated one-click installation from OpenShift into supported Nutanix virtualized environments.
In addition to this, highlights additional architectures for sandbox containers, including the ability to run sandboxed containers on AWS as well as single-node OpenShift. Additionally, sandbox containers provide an optional additional layer of isolation for workloads, even at the edge of the network.
The improved monitoring and compliance in hybrid environments, managing disparate workloads can often require additional monitoring and control. To help users better manage ever-growing container fleets at the edge, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.6, which is part of the features included in Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, helps improve availability in enterprise use cases. high latency and low bandwidth.
With Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management, a single cluster hub can now deploy and manage up to 2500 single-node OpenShift clusters, which can be deployed and managed at the edge with zero-touch provisioning. In addition, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.6 provides edge metric collectors specifically designed for small, single-node workloads, enabling better observation of remote operations.
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management also offers new integrations with key tools, giving users the ability to continue using existing workflows. These integrations include:
- Automatic application visibility across container state, as well as increased application topology visibility, showing which applications were directly created by OpenShift.
- Cluster management is done directly from the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, available as Technology Preview, which allows Ansible users to interact with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management natively.
- Kyverno PolicySet integration, available as a Technology Preview, providing more options for users to keep up with the changing Kubernetes policy landscape.
It is worth mentioning that Red Hat Openshift 4.11 and Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation are now publicly available. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.6 will be available to the general public next month.
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