New updates available for Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus

Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus is engineered to provide a more consistent foundation for organizations to drive transformational IT standardization.

Red Hat Inc., the provider of open source solutions, announced a new iteration of Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, with new features and capabilities that go beyond the base Kubernetes platform to encompass storage, management and more. This further extends Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus as a singular Kubernetes platform to span the breadth of enterprise IT scenarios, whether a traditional datacenter, distributed edge operations or multiple public cloud environments.

Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus is engineered to provide a more consistent foundation for organizations to drive transformational IT standardization. The newest offering includes the necessary tools to more simply build, protect and manage applications throughout the software lifecycle and across Kubernetes clusters. 

These underlying technology updates include:

• Red Hat OpenShift 4.11
• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.6
• Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.11

A comprehensive platform for workloads that span the hybrid cloud

As organizations continue to scale operating environments, the need for greater consistency across these heterogeneous footprints has grown as well. Red Hat OpenShift 4.11, based on Kubernetes 1.24 and CRI-O 1.24 runtime interface, is designed to make it easier to consume enterprise Kubernetes however and wherever needed across the open hybrid cloud. 

Organizations can now install Red Hat OpenShift straight from popular public cloud markets like the AWS marketplace and Azure marketplace thanks to the most recent version. This gives businesses even more freedom in how they choose to use OpenShift, and it helps IT teams better handle changing technological requirements.

New features and capabilities in Red Hat OpenShift 4.11 include:

• Pod Security Admission integration, which enables users to define different isolation levels for Kubernetes pods to help enforce clearer, more consistent pod behaviours.
• Installer provisioned infrastructure (IPI) support for Nutanix for users to employ the IPI process for fully automated, integrated, one-click installation of OpenShift on supported Nutanix virtualized environments.
• Additional architectures for sandboxed containers, including the ability to run sandboxed containers on AWS as well as on single node OpenShift. Sandboxed containers provide an optional additional layer of isolation for workloads, even at the far reaches of the network’s edge. 

Enhanced oversight and compliance across hybrid environments

With various workloads requiring management there is a constant need for extra governance and control. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.6, which is a component of Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, has new functionality whose goal is to enhance availability in high latency, low bandwidth use scenarios to assist customers in better managing constantly expanding container fleets at the edge.

A single Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management hub cluster can now deploy and manage up to 2,500 single-node OpenShift clusters, which can be deployed and managed at the edge through zero touch provisioning. Additionally, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.6 provides edge metrics-collectors designed specifically for single-node and small workloads, allowing for greater observibility of remote operations. 

Data services and persistent storage designed for modern workloads

As organizations move their systems to the hybrid cloud, resilience is often a critical concern. To help minimize data loss and business disruption in the event of a failure, Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.11 includes OpenShift API for data protection. The operator-based application programming interface (API) can be used to backup and restore applications and data specifics, natively or by using existing data protection applications across the hybrid cloud.

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management now offers multicluster monitoring capabilities using Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation. By unifying cluster management across environments into a single solution, this enables a single view of the health of cluster data management across several clusters and can lower operational expenses.

Availability:

Red Hat OpenShift 4.11 and Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.11 are now generally available. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.6 is expected to be available later in the month of September.