After Google’s Cloud Anthos, VMware’s Tanzu Mission Control, and Microsoft’s Azure Arc, Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) for Kubernetes to reduce the complexities around the Kubernetes clusters with end-to-end visibility and control.
The cloud-native environment has seen the growing adoption of Kubernetes and containers. More and more companies are now adopting a multi-cloud environment to manage their business applications and daily operations. This has led to the expansion of Kubernetes clusters.Â
However, administrators and cloud architects have noticed significant bottlenecks when managing Kubernetes clusters. Be it a single cluster or multiple clusters, admins face several challenges like inconsistent security controls, noncompliance, lack of visibility and control, and error-prone app deployment.
To solve these bottlenecks and complexities, there has been an emergence of Kubernetes control planes. A Kubernetes control plane provides a unified platform for multiple cluster lifecycle management, policy-based governance, security and auditing, visibility, and advanced application lifecycle management.Â
With a Kubernetes control plane, admins can centrally manage Kubernetes clusters deployed on diverse cloud environments and reduce complexities seamlessly.Â
Tom Petrocelli, a research fellow at Amalgam Insights, sharesOpens a new window , “Kubernetes control planes are a sign of the normalization of container clusters. The growth both in complexity and scale of container clusters necessitates a management layer that helps DevOps teams to more quickly stand up and manage clusters. This is the only way that platform operations can match the speed of Agile development and automated CI/CD toolchains.â€
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At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 virtual conference, Red Hat announced the general availability of Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) for Kubernetes. ACM for Kubernetes is a management layer that enables enterprises to control, manage, and deploy OpenShift Kubernetes clusters, edge computing workloads from a single control plane while enforcing policies and governance at scale. Red Hat ACM is a Kubernetes control plane that eliminates complexities around Kubernetes cluster management.
Red Hat claims that its centralized management platform will manage clusters running on diverse environments, including on-premises, public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and even manage clusters from third-party cloud vendors, such as Microsoft Azure, Google, and AWS. Furthermore, Red Hat ACM assures consistent policy-based governance that meets industry or regulatory standards.
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president of management business unit at Red Hat, saysOpens a new window , “As customers scale Kubernetes environments across hybrid clouds, advanced management capabilities become critical to the continued success of these cloud-native strategies. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes is engineered to do exactly that, focusing on consistently managing Kubernetes clusters across all footprints.â€
Some of the other prominent software players that have launched Kubernetes control planes include Google Cloud Anthos, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Azure Arc by Microsoft, Rancher, and Platform9.
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