Red Hat OpenShift 4.16 adds new capabilities in
support of virtualized workloads and edge deployments to further
extend consistency across applications, from AI-enabled to
traditional
Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today introduced new capabilities and enhancements for
Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application
platform powered by Kubernetes, as well as the general availability
of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service. The new
features, delivered with the general availability of Red Hat
OpenShift 4.16, 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.
Delivering better experiences and driving customer satisfaction
are at the center of most organization's IT goals. To do so, they
frequently look to intelligent apps, including both AI-enabled
applications and edge applications, that allow for insights to be
delivered more quickly wherever they are needed. The technology
decisions made today around these applications and more are often
in support of setting organizations up for an AI and edge-focused
future. However, it’s not as simple as purely adopting the latest
AI technology, as those systems and platforms also need to run in
harmony with critical traditional applications and infrastructure
like virtualized environments.
The latest enhancements to Red Hat OpenShift are designed to
help organizations connect their disparate, diverse workloads and
create a more consistent management and deployment experience,
wherever an application lives across the hybrid cloud and
regardless of whether the application is a traditional workhorse or
built to harness AI innovation.
A modern option for virtualization
As the virtualization landscape continues to evolve, many
organizations are looking to migrate existing virtualized workloads
to a platform that can run virtual machines (VMs) side-by-side with
modern containerized applications and serverless functions with the
ability to modernize those VM-based applications when needed. Red
Hat is now offering directly and through its partners a
Virtualization Migration Assessment that will take organizations
through a risk assessment methodology to help determine the best
path forward for migration away from a legacy virtualization
solution.
The latest enhancements in Red Hat OpenShift for virtualization
use cases help further simplify migrating and modernizing
virtualized workloads. 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 the customer experience at the edge
Minimizing service downtime is paramount to delivering a quality
experience for customers and is particularly important for those
applications at the edge. To enhance service quality 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.
Additionally, the OpenShift-based Appliance Builder is now
available as a technology preview to Red Hat partners seeking to
build turnkey, customized appliances with self-contained Red Hat
OpenShift instances. The OpenShift-based Appliance Builder is a
container-based utility that builds a disk image that includes the
Agent-based Installer, which is used to install multiple Red Hat
OpenShift clusters. This makes it easier to install Red Hat
OpenShift at remote edge sites at scale, as it can be done with
limited or no connectivity and without the need for an external
registry.
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.
Additionally, the complexity of container-based Kubernetes
environments is also a factor that some organizations still
struggle with.
Helping organizations take a security-forward approach to
building, deploying and maintaining cloud-native applications at
scale, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service is now
generally available. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud
Service is 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 within
minutes while scaling more easily across clouds and geographies
without the additional overhead or complexities.
Availability
Red Hat OpenShift 4.16 is now generally available. More
information, including how to update to the latest version, is
available here. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service
graduates from limited availability to general availability. More
information is available here and you can try a no-cost 60 day
trial here
Supporting Quotes
Mike Barrett, vice president and general manager, Hybrid Cloud
Platforms, Red Hat “Being able to more quickly modernize both
infrastructure and applications are crucial capabilities to better
support customer needs -- but this can’t be done overnight. As
organizations make technology decisions in support of their AI
strategies, both for today and tomorrow, they need platforms that
set them up for future success while also balancing the demands of
their legacy applications and environments. With Red Hat OpenShift
4.16, organizations can focus on both incremental improvements and
modernization. Red Hat OpenShift helps customers prepare their
infrastructure for the demands of AI while managing and maintaining
traditional, mission-critical applications and infrastructure like
virtualized environments, all from a single platform.”
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Red Hat OpenShift 4.16
- Read the blog on Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud
Service
- Learn more about Red Hat Device Edge
- Learn more about Virtualization Migration Assessment
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