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Enterprise open source software provider Red Hat announced the latest release of Red Hat’s Kubernetes distro, OpenShift, at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe, being held this week in Paris.
When I was a kid, I tried, and failed more often than not, to build model planes. I was too clumsy to fit and glue together all the fiddly bits. Fast-forward a few decades, and if you feel the same way about Kubernetes, you might want to use a pre-made Kubernetes distro rather than build one yourself. One such distro, and an excellent choice, is Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15. Red Hat announced this release at KubeCon Europe in Paris.
OpenShift 4.15, grounded in Kubernetes 1.28 and CRI-O 1.28, is Red Hat‘s latest platform for hybrid cloud and edge application development and deployment across hybrid cloud environments. This release zeroes in on enhancing the core platform, the edge, and the virtualization facets, thus bolstering its position as a trusted, comprehensive platform for accelerating application delivery.
The new OpenShift is supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.8 and 8.9 and on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) 4.15. For the control plane, you must, but you can use either RHCOS or RHEL for your compute systems.
If you already have a Red Hat account, OpenShift 4.15 clusters are available now. With the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager, you can deploy OpenShiftto either on-premises or cloud locations.
Starting with this release, Red Hat is simplifying OpenShift shipped cluster administration and Operator management by introducing three new life cycle classifications: OpenShift Operator Life Cycles, Platform Aligned, Platform Agnostic, and Rolling Stream. These help cluster administrators understand the life cycle policies of each Operator and form cluster maintenance and upgrade plans with predictable support boundaries.
For edge users who are also invested in Amazon Web Services (AWS), OpenShift is now integrated with AWS Outposts and AWS Wavelength Zones. This combination enables cluster administrators to deploy OpenShift clusters on AWS with remote workers on Outposts. This provides on-premises AWS-managed infrastructure for what Red Hat calls “a seamless hybrid experience.
5G infrastructure wouldn’t exist without cloud native computing and Kubernetes, but Wavelength and OpenShift enable users to build, deploy, and scale ultra-low-latency applications on edge 5G devices. Specifically, this ensures application traffic from 5G devices experiences minimal latency by avoiding unnecessary internet hops.
Another highlight is the bolstering of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, which now steps into the spotlight with added resilience and disaster recovery capabilities. This feature facilitates the modernization of virtualized infrastructures, allowing virtual machines (VM) to run alongside containers and cloud native applications.
On the security side, OpenShift now supports IPSec encryption of external traffic, aka north-south traffic. This security protocol already supports encryption of network traffic between pods, aka east-west traffic. You can use both features together to provide full in-transit encryption for OpenShift clusters.
Red Hat’s OpenTelemetry build is a notable step towards unified, standardized telemetry data collection, which is vital for observability and operational excellence in cloud native environments.
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Grounded in Kubernetes 1.28 and CRI-O 1.28, OpenShift is Red Hat's platform for hybrid cloud and edge application development.