Red Hat has announced the availability of a set of enterprise-grade Linux container solutions. Red Hat’s container portfolio spans over free development tools to container platforms that integrates management, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS). Addressing modernisation of existing IT investments and innovation alike, Red Hat now enables customers to better leverage the full benefits of containerisation with more secure, portable and consistent container-based solutions, supporting key open standards such as the Open Container Initiative (OCI) container format and Kubernetes orchestration.
Built on the enterprise-grade backbone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat’s portfolio of Linux container solutions aims to answer emerging business needs by offering:
- A Linux container operating system via Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host.
- An enterprise container development and deployment platform tailored to a wide range of use cases in Red Hat OpenShift.
- Enterprise-grade container native storage via Red Hat Gluster Storage.
- Unified container management with Red Hat CloudForms.
“Regardless of hype, containers are Linux at their core, albeit packaged in a way that allows for portability across the hybrid cloud, from on-premise to multiple public clouds. Enterprise-grade applications require many things, however, and these requirements do not change in a container-centric world; only when orchestration, management and scale are more securely and reliably added can containers enter the enterprise mainstream. Today, Red Hat has introduced the industry’s broadest portfolio of enterprise-grade, Linux container products, backed by our award-winning support and vast partner ecosystem. Red Hat’s new container portfolio addresses needs across IT organisations – providing developers with tools to build cloud-native and containerised enterprise applications, enabling operations teams to manage new cloud-scale container infrastructure, and helping businesses to transform their data centres to fully embrace the benefits of Linux containers,” says Paul Cormier, president, Product and Technologies, Red Hat
Red Hat OpenShift
In June 2015, Red Hat OpenShift became a container-centric, hybrid cloud solution built from the Docker, Kubernetes, Project Atomic and OpenShift Origin upstream projects with Red Hat Enterprise Linux as its foundation.
Today, Red Hat announced a broad expansion of its container offerings based on the OpenShift technology, aimed at helping enterprises to completely embrace Linux containers across consumption models, from the developer desktop to production environments to the hybrid cloud. Red Hat OpenShift now addresses needs across the Linux container adoption lifecycle, including:
- Adopting containers for local development and driving developer productivity via no-cost Red Hat OpenShift Container Local, included in the Red Hat Container Developer Kit.
- Expanding adoption of Linux containers and enabling enterprise to evaluate containers in non-production server environments for development and testing with Red Hat OpenShift Container Lab.
- Supporting enterprise organisations who are committing to containers for mission-critical application delivery, from development to production, with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
- Enabling customers to transform the traditional data centre to a private cloud with Red Hat Cloud Suite, which combines the components of Red Hat OpenShift with Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat CloudForms.
- Providing fully managed, public cloud container platform offerings OpenShift Online and OpenShift Dedicated in the public cloud, managed by Red Hat.
Red Hat Gluster Storage
As enterprises move to an open hybrid cloud environment, software-defined storage becomes a necessity. Red Hat has launched containerized Red Hat Gluster Storage, available now via the Red Hat Container Registry. Bringing enterprises closer to the vision of Storage-as-a-Service, this new offering enables storage to be deployed in standard containers, orchestrated by Kubernetes and managed just like any other application service running on Red Hat OpenShift, and includes full integration with Red Hat’s entire container stack.
Red Hat CloudForms
Management is a critical piece of enterprise-grade containers, and Red Hat CloudForms provides this with container visibility and control as a part of the Red Hat container stack. Combining hybrid cloud and container management into a single interface, Red Hat CloudForms gives users visibility into workloads running on Red Hat OpenShift and the hosting infrastructure. Combined with CloudForms’ other management capabilities, users can manage relationships from the container through the platform layer to the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) layer or the physical host.
Making innovation ready for the enterprise
Red Hat recently launched Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, which helps customers rapidly develop and integrate applications using microservices, deploy them in containers, and deliver them using DevOps methodologies across physical, cloud and mobile environments that can quickly scale up or down on-demand.
