Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Unified platform to build, modernize, and deploy applications at scale
Red Hat OpenShift: The Power of Containers in a Hybrid Cloud Environment
In today's hyper-competitive tech industry, the need for agility and rapid innovation is paramount. This is where Red Hat OpenShift steps in as a critical tool. It provides a comprehensive platform that streamlines the entire application lifecycle, from development to deployment and management. OpenShift addresses this need for agility through containerization, offering portability and efficient resource utilization. It empowers businesses with a hybrid cloud approach, seamlessly working across diverse environments and fostering a secure, developer-friendly experience that accelerates time to market. This translates to faster innovation cycles and a competitive edge. Further, OpenShift breathes new life into legacy systems, enabling businesses to modernize their infrastructure without a complete overhaul. Ultimately, Red Hat OpenShift empowers businesses to thrive in this dynamic landscape by streamlining workflows and optimizing resource utilization
Drive your journey with Red Hat OpenShift
Unleash innovation in the cloud with Red Hat OpenShift. This powerful platform provides a secure, consistent foundation for building and running containerized applications across any hybrid cloud environment. Imagine – a single, cost-effective platform that empowers both IT and developers, accelerating delivery of exceptional customer experiences.
Red Hat OpenShift understands that you have choices. While DIY options and public cloud services exist, they often lack the robust security and support that Red Hat offers. By choosing OpenShift, you gain the expertise of a leader in the field, ensuring your applications thrive in a future-proof environment.
Introducing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, the industry leader in hybrid cloud application development. This powerhouse simplifies and accelerates everything from creation to delivery, managing your entire application lifecycle seamlessly across on-premise, public cloud, and edge environments.
Need to modernize existing apps? Build cutting-edge cloud-native ones? OpenShift empowers you. Want to leverage data analytics, AI, and machine learning for deeper insights? OpenShift integrates them effortlessly. Thinking about incorporating software from independent vendors or cloud providers? OpenShift streamlines that too.
OpenShift is designed for continuous innovation and speed at any scale, preparing your organization for the present and empowering you to build for the future.
OpenShift Container Platform is self-managed and includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS, over-the-air updates, container runtime, networking, ingress, monitoring, logging, container registry, authentication, and authorization solutions. These components are tested together for unified operations on a complete Kubernetes platform spanning every cloud environment.
Features and benefits
Scalability
Applications running on OpenShift Container Platform can scale to thousands of instances across hundreds of nodes in a matter of seconds.
Multicluster federation
Consolidated views of clusters and the use of Kubernetes technologies offer a consistent management layer across on-premises and public clouds.
Persistent storage
Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage allows users to run stateful applications and cloud-native stateless applications
Polyglot, multi language support
Developers can use various languages, frameworks, and databases on the same platform.
User interfaces
Developers have direct access to a rich set of command-line tools, a multidevice web console, and Eclipse-based IDEs.
Automated installation and upgrades
Automated installation and over-the-air platform upgrades are supported in the cloud with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure, and on-premise using vSphere, OpenStack® or bare metal.
3-node clusters
| Access all of the capabilities of a complete Kubernetes platform with a highly available, smaller footprint for edge architectures comprising both supervisor and worker nodes. |
Single nodes
Combines control and worker capabilities to address edge use cases with small physical environments, low bandwidth, or disconnected sites.
Robust ecosystem
An expanding ecosystem of partners provides a wide variety of integrations. Third parties deliver additional storage and network providers, integrated development environment (IDE), CI, and integrations, ISV solutions, and more.
Open source standards
OpenShift Container Platform incorporates Open Containers Initiative (OCI)/Docker-formatted containers and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-certified Kubernetes for container orchestration, in addition to other open source technologies.
Container portability
Container images built on the OCI industry standard ensure portability between developer workstations and production OpenShift Container Platform environments.
Self-service provisioning
Developers can quickly and easily create applications on demand from the tools they use most, while Operations retains full control over the entire environment.
Integrated CI/CD pipelines
OpenShift Container Platform lets developers reduce manual deployment work to deploy higher quality software for continuous integration and automated tests.
Source-to-image deployment
OpenShift Container Platform provides a toolkit and workflow for producing ready-to-run images by injecting source code into a container and letting the container prepare that source code for execution.
Automation
Streamlined and automated container and application builds, deployments, scaling, health management, and more are standard with OpenShift Container Platform.
Remote worker nodes
Place single worker nodes in remote locations where centralized supervisor nodes manage them from a larger site, such as a core or regional datacenter—especially important for remote edge locations that have space-constrained environments and limited power or cooling capabilities.
Preinstalled Red Hat OpenShift hardware
| Speed up and simplify edge deployments powered by clusters that arrive with Red Hat OpenShift preinstalled directly from our original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners, reducing the resources and time to operationalize new hardware—placing your applications adjacent to data sources. |
MLOps
Take advantage of model development, training, serving and monitoring not only in a cloud environment, but also on-premise and to the edge.
OpenShift Container Platform
The leading enterprise, hybrid cloud Kubernetes application platform. Explore what is new with the latest Release
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16
Red Hat OpenShift 4.16 is now generally available and focuses on the core, security, virtualization, and capabilities for telecommunications and edge computing. The latest version is based on Kubernetes 1.29 and CRI-O 1.29 and includes several new features requested by Red Hat customers. Red Hat OpenShift aims to accelerate modern application development and delivery at scale across the hybrid cloud through a trusted, comprehensive and consistent platform.
OpenShift Container Platform capabilities and complementary Red Hat products
Connected Customer
At-a-glance views for your mission critical OpenShift components right from the OpenShift Console
Custom Grafana Monitoring for OpenShift
Traditional monitoring solutions, however, often lack the necessary visibility to effectively monitor an OpenShift cluster. To address this challenge, a typical OpenShift monitoring stack leverages Prometheus for both system and service monitoring, while Grafana serves as the platform for metric analysis and visualization.
While administrators may desire to create custom Grafana queries and dashboards, the Grafana instances and their pre-configured dashboards included within the monitoring stack are typically read-only. To overcome this limitation and empower administrators with customization capabilities, the community-developed Grafana operator, available through OperatorHub, can be employed.
Enabling to Build a More Stable and Reliable Customer Experience:
Proactive support for customer issues
● Active upgrades
● Overall cluster health/firing alerts
● Node health
Driving high quality product
● Monitor and improve upon the health of the customer base
● Prioritize engineering roadmap for platforms and prove they are improving over time
● Active monitoring of fast and stable channels
Streamlined OpenShift Monitoring for Critical Applications
- Offers a single, centralized place for all OpenShift components (and more in the future) to provide insights into critical KPIs back to you.
- Switch between dashboards, representing different parts of your cluster.
- Filter by different criteria defined by a dashboards and different time ranges.
Red Hat OpenShift Editions
Various editions of Red Hat OpenShift are available to suit any business requirement for the cluster deployment
Red Hat OpenShift Operators
Simplified Management for Kubernetes Applications: Red Hat OpenShift and the Power of Operators
Enabling Autonomous Platforms with Certified Operators
Red Hat OpenShift Operators leverage automation to streamline the creation, configuration, and management of Kubernetes-native application instances. This automation capability extends throughout the entire software stack, encompassing both the platform's underlying components and applications delivered as managed services. By harnessing the power of Operators, Red Hat OpenShift achieves autonomous platform operation while exposing configuration options natively through Kubernetes objects. This approach facilitates rapid installation and frequent, reliable updates.
Beyond the inherent automation benefits for platform management, Red Hat OpenShift simplifies the process of discovering, deploying, and administering Operators within your clusters. A key feature is the Embedded OperatorHub, which serves as a repository for certified Operators from various software vendors and open source projects. This embedded registry empowers users to explore and install a comprehensive library of Operators that have undergone verification for compatibility with Red Hat OpenShift and have been specifically packaged to ensure effortless lifecycle management
Operator SDK
Enabling every body to write Operators
Support for Helm3
Build Operators from Helm v2 and v3 charts
Ansible collections
Ansible Operator supports k8s module collection
Custom metrics
Every Operator supports custom metric endpoints.
Generate Packaging
Operator Metadata (CSV) for OLM gets generated
Kubernetes Compatibility
Keep in sync with new Kubernetes releases
Scorecard v2
Enable testing your Operator in a pipeline
Platform Services to manage workloads and tie them into OpenShift infra capabilities
Start with a complete set of services to build applications, including Red Hat OpenShift Serverless, Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh, and Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines. These developer-friendly workflows enable developers to go straight from application code to container.
Increase developer productivity on Kubernetes
with developer-focused tools and services
Supported platforms for OpenShift Container Platform clusters
You can run OpenShift hybrid cloud on any Platform Infrastructure public cloud, private cloud, physical on-premises or on per-existing infrastructure
In OpenShift Container Platform 4.16, you can install a cluster that uses installer-provisioned infrastructure (IPI) on the following platforms:
In OpenShift Container Platform 4.16, you can install a cluster that uses user-provisioned infrastructure (UPI)on the following platforms:
Run Virtualization from OpenShift as
Container-Native Virtualization
OpenShift Virtualization
Container-native virtualization lets developers bring virtual machines (VMs) into containerized workflows by running a virtual machine within a container. By combining these two technologies into a single management platform, organizations take advantage of the simplicity and speed of containers and Kubernetes while still benefiting from the applications and services that have been architected for virtual machines. Learn more about OpenShift Virtualization Technical
CRI-O Support in OpenShift
CRI-O tracks and versions identical to Kubernetes, simplifying support permutations
Red Hat OpenShift 4.16 is now generally available and focuses on the core, security, virtualization, and capabilities for telecommunications and edge computing. The latest version is based on Kubernetes 1.29 and CRI-O 1.29 and includes several new features requested by Red Hat customers.
CRI-O
1.29
Kubernetes
1.29
OpenShift
4.16
Red Hat OpenShift Subscription Options
Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, and Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine subscriptions are available in 2 options, each with 2 support levels:
- Core-based, 2 cores or 4 virtual central processing units (vCPUs). This is based on the aggregate number of physical cores or vCPUs across all the OpenShift compute nodes running across all OpenShift clusters. Available with Standard 8x5 or Premium 24x7 support SLA.
- Bare-metal socket pair, up to 64 cores across 1-2 sockets. This subscription is available only for x86 and ARM bare-metal physical nodes where OpenShift is installed directly to the hardware. Available with Standard 8x5 or Premium 24x7 support SLA.
Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine
Delivers the foundational, security-focused capabilities of enterprise Kubernetes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS to run containers in hybrid cloud environments
INCLUDES:
- Administrator console
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS immutable container operation system
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Adds a full set of operations and developer services and tools that includes everything in the Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine plus additional features.
Adds:
- Developer console
- Red Hat OpenShift Serverless
- Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
- Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines and Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus
Builds on the capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with a complete platform for accelerating application development and application modernization.
Adds:
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
- Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation Essentials
- Red Hat Quay
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