Red Hat has introduced new capabilities for its world leading hybrid cloud application platform, Red Hat OpenShift.
The enhancements are designed to simplify application development and reduce infrastructure complexity. The new adjustments aim to free up development teams from IT management tasks, enabling them to focus on innovation.
Hosted Control Planes
Hosted control planes for Red Hat OpenShift on bare metal and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization are now generally available. Red Hat studies show that hosted control planes help organisations to reduce infrastructure management costs by up to 30% and that developers experience time savings of up to 60% in addition to strengthening security.
Red Hat OpenShift 4.14 Enhancements
The latest RHOS enhancements offer a wider variety of options to enable customers to start building, modernising, and deploying applications.
These include:
- Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated. Available on Google Cloud Marketplace, RHOS Dedicated offers customers a flexible, consumption-based billing model for app development.
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation on AWS (ROSA). RHOS Virtualisation makes modernising apps and moving to the cloud easier by allowing virtual machines to run side-by-side with containers on AWS, allowing single interface management and providing a consistent experience.
- Red Hat Device Edge. RHDE allows applications to be deployed from resource-constrained devices to the far edge. This extends operational consistency from existing hybrid cloud environments out to the edge, using the same tools and processes that teams already use with RHOS.
- NVIDIA GPVS which gives organisations the ability to develop and deploy generative AI applications, LLMs and Chatbots.
- Azure Managed Identities and Google Cloud User Tags. This adds another layer of security across the hybrid cloud by allowing users to consume services directly from cloud providers while providing security teams with the visibility to enforce IT security policies.
Security Enhancements
The latest 4.14 version of Red Hat OpenShift also includes security enhancements such as the Red Hat OpenShift Shared Resource CSI Driver (available as a tech preview.) This enables certificates, encryption keys, passwords, and tokens to be stored in an encrypted secrets management system.
Latest version of Red Hat OpenShift now available
Joe Fernandes, vice president of Hybrid Cloud Platforms at Red Hat commented on the new release:
“with the latest version of Red Hat OpenShift, we further reduce the strain of day-to-day infrastructure operations facing IT teams, enabling organisations to focus on driving innovation and building solutions that best meet changing customer and business needs.”
Red Hat OpenShift 4.14 is now generally available. More information, including how to upgrade to the latest version, is available here.
Find out more about Red Hat OpenShift on our Red Hat products pages.
Article by C. James