New version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform launched for hybrid cloud environments

Red Hat has launched Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7, the latest version of Red Hat’s enterprise-grade Kubernetes container application platform. The new platform helps IT organisations to build and manage applications that use services from the data centre to the public cloud.

The newest iteration is claimed to be the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform; it includes native integrations with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Brokers that enable developers to bind services across AWS and on-premise resources to create modern applications while providing a consistent, open standardsbased foundation to drive business evolution.

“Modern, cloud-native applications are not monolithic stacks with clear-cut needs and resources; so to more effectively embrace modern applications, IT organisations need to re-imagine how their developers find, provision and consume critical services and resources across a hybrid architecture. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 addresses these needs head-on by providing hybrid access to services through its service catalogue, enabling developers to more easily find and bind the necessary services to their business-critical applications—no matter where these services exist—and adding close integration with AWS to further streamline cloud-native development and deployment,” said Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 will ship with OpenShift Template Broker, which turns any OpenShift Template into a discoverable service for application developers using OpenShift. OpenShift Templates are lists of OpenShift objects that can be implemented within specific parameters, making it easier for IT organisations to deploy reusable, composite applications comprising microservices.

Also included with the new platform is OpenShift Ansible Broker for provisioning and managing services through the OpenShift service catalogue by using Ansible to define OpenShift Services. OpenShift Ansible Broker enables users to provision services both on and off the OpenShift platform, helping to simplify and automate complex workflows involving varied services and applications across on-premise and cloud-based resources.