NGINX, Inc.,
the engine delivering sites and applications for the modern web, today
announced support for the use of NGINX Plus as an Ingress controller for
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Based on the NGINX Plus Ingress
Controller for Kubernetes, the NGINX Plus Ingress Controller solution is
now tested, certified, and supported for Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform, offering load balancing for customers developing new
applications, or moving existing applications into OpenShift. The
solution adds support for the advanced features found in NGINX Plus,
including a high-performance load balancer, content cache, and web
server, for delivering applications with greater performance,
reliability, and scalability, as well as added security, with Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform.
As
interest in containers and Kubernetes grows in the enterprise, Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform is emerging as a key platform to embrace
these technologies and to help speed cloud-native application
development. The extensive feature set of NGINX Plus complements
OpenShift, enabling organizations to deploy applications anywhere across
a cluster so they can be reached by outside traffic. It can also
improve the resilience and scale-out of deployed applications so they
are available, and can respond more quickly to increased demand.
"In
today's digital environment, it's critical to deliver feature-rich
applications that can quickly respond to changing business
requirements," said Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager,
OpenShift, at Red Hat. "Containers and Kubernetes increasingly serve as
the basis of modern and agile apps, and Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform provides an innovative platform to help embrace these
technologies and drive digital transformation. With NGINX Plus,
OpenShift customers can have access to a commercial Ingress controller
for traffic management and load balancing of services running in
OpenShift."
Based
on the open source NGINX software, NGINX Plus builds on a proven track
record of powering more than half of the world's busiest sites and
applications. Already a leading containerized solution, NGINX Plus
provides native deployment and configuration for Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform and is fully portable across OpenShift clusters and
platforms, with the ability to run in any environment, whether it be
cloud, on-premise, or bare metal. As a leading application delivery
platform, NGINX Plus provides a full complement of capabilities for
OpenShift that are required for modern applications, including advanced
load balancing algorithms, Layer 7 routing, end-to end authentication,
and request/rate limiting.
"NGINX
users, including some of today's most visited websites and
applications, are rapidly adopting containers to gain the essential
speed, agility, and flexibility in their application deployments," said
Gus Robertson, CEO at NGINX, Inc. "By utilizing the NGINX Plus Ingress
Controller solution for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, both Red
Hat and NGINX customers can build and deliver quality applications at
the speed required by their evolving business needs."
The NGINX Plus Ingress Controller is available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform today. To learn more visit https://www.nginx.com/partners/red-hat