The new OpenShift 4.9 is expected to be available in a few weeks, while the Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.4 is set to hit the markets in November. The products will be available as a part of Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus.
Red Hat has released new versions of its Kubernetes-centric OpenShift and Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) solutions, emphasizing its commitment to giving businesses better control over their container-based architecture in remote sites.
Red Hat unveiled a slew of updates at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference, vowing to make it simpler to create and launch apps on fleets of clusters based on its Kubernetes distribution, as well as administer the whole infrastructure.
Red Hat OpenShift 4.9 and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.4 are meant to provide the open hybrid cloud’s consistency to the enterprise’s farthest reaches. The new features, which comprise the general availability of single-node OpenShift for small full-featured enterprise Kubernetes clusters, will assist companies in scaling preexisting development, deployment, and administration operations to meet increased demand for services and information.
About 50% of new company IT infrastructure would be installed at edge sites rather than corporate datacenters by 2021, up from less than 10% in 2021, a report by IDC revealed. The number of apps installed in remote places is also expected to rise by 800 by 2024, predicts IDC. Companies across sectors use edge computing to implement latency-sensitive apps to provide the best user experience and make rapid data-driven choices that enhance their business.
Enterprises require solutions that make it easier to deploy apps at the edge and make it easier to operate such applications at volume, as the demand for apps that run in remote places grows. The newest Red Hat OpenShift 4.9 and Advanced Cluster Management 2.4 upgrades give companies the freedom and management tools to migrate workloads whenever needed.
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Dennis Gatens, CEO and president of LEOcloud, said, “Red Hat OpenShift will allow us to speed up the processing of satellite-sourced data at our Space Edge cloud facilities for our customers’ business-critical applications while reducing latency and data transport costs. And, single-node OpenShift is the perfect container platform for our Space Edge LEO constellation of satellite data centers.
“It allows customers to seamlessly move their applications from a terrestrial cloud environment to a LEOcloud satellite. Single-node OpenShift will accelerate the deployment of applications to space where mission-critical data can be analyzed as close as possible to the sources and users of data,†he added.
Stefanie Chiras, senior vice president at Platforms Business Group, Red Hat, explained, “Edge computing is fundamentally changing how businesses are using and interacting with data and, as edge use cases grow exponentially, consistency is imperative to managing the scale of these distributed workloads and infrastructure. The new capabilities in Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management help further extend what the open hybrid cloud is capable of – providing a common foundation for innovation from on-premises datacenters to the furthest reaches of enterprise networks.â€Â
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OpenShift 4.9 Enhancements
- Single-node OpenShift is a new deployment option in Red Hat OpenShift 4.9, joining the current 3-node clusters and remote worker node choices.
- Red Hat has integrated all control and worker capabilities onto a single server using single-node OpenShift, allowing OpenShift to be deployed in space-constrained situations.
- Red Hat provides operational independence for edge sites with the newest version of OpenShift and the single-node deployment, as there is no dependency on a centralized Kubernetes control plane. This will make it easier in the event when a site’s connectivity is disrupted.
- Advanced Cluster Management has been updated to give a single, reasonable position from the edge to data centers and cloud environments, allowing companies to manage across sites and clusters without needing a constant connection between both the cluster management plane and the edge location.
The new OpenShift 4.9 is expected to be available in few weeks, while the Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.4 is expected to be available from November. The products will be available as a part of Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus.
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