Red Hat introduced a brand new possibility for its OpenShift container platform on the digital Red Hat Summit this week known as Platform Plus, with a give attention to serving to prospects extra simply safe and handle their Kubernetes clusters no matter which surroundings they run in.
With Platform Plus, Red Hat is focusing its consideration on observability and safety, with the CEO of Red Hat’s guardian firm IBM, Arvind Krishna, declaring in the course of the keynote that he considers cybersecurity the “problem of the decade” in enterprise computing.
The options of OpenShift Platform Plus embody:
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, which builds on the acquisition of specialist vendor StackRox earlier this 12 months to reinforce the safety of infrastructure and workloads all through all the utility life cycle.
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, for end-to-end visibility, administration, and management of Kubernetes clusters throughout hybrid and multicloud environments.
- Red Hat Quay, a world, scalable, and safe container registry for a constant construct pipeline that spans infrastructures.
“I see a more overriding focus on security and multicloud enablement with this product,” Gartner analyst Arun Chandrasekaran informed InfoWorld. “Security continues to be a top-of-mind concern for platform leaders and CIOs within the container area as they search higher safety and extra automated controls throughout construct and runtime environments. Security can’t be an afterthought within the container world, given the sheer dynamism and ephemeral nature of containerized workloads—it needs to be tightly built-in into the devops workflow, also called devsecops.”
By our depend, Red Hat now affords three variations of self-managed OpenShift: the foundational Kubernetes Engine, the OpenShift Container Platform, and now Platform Plus. Red Hat additionally affords 4 managed Kubernetes choices, hosted on Microsoft Azure, AWS, IBM Cloud, and OpenShift Dedicated, which itself may be hosted on both AWS or Google Cloud.
As increasingly more enterprises understand that managing Kubernetes is tough, cloud distributors wish to compete on simplicity, performance, and selection. According to Flexera’s 2021 State of Cloud report, 30% of enterprise respondents already use OpenShift in some method, making it the fourth hottest managed possibility behind the Big Three cloud suppliers.
OpenShift Platform Plus is slated for normal availability in Q2 2021, almost definitely in May. It will…
