Red
Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, and Microsoft today announced the general availability of
Azure Red Hat OpenShift, which brings a jointly-managed enterprise-grade
Kubernetes solution to a leading public cloud, Microsoft Azure. Azure
Red Hat OpenShift provides a powerful on-ramp to hybrid cloud computing,
enabling IT organizations to use Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
in their datacenters and more seamlessly extend these workloads to use
the power and scale of Azure services. The availability of Azure Red Hat
OpenShift marks the first jointly managed OpenShift offering in the
public cloud.
Both
Red Hat and Microsoft recognize the importance of hybrid cloud
computing to modern IT, as organizations look to expand resources with
public cloud infrastructure while maintaining existing on-premises
investments. Kubernetes provides a common bridge between the datacenter
and public cloud environments, making it a key technology in enabling
true hybrid cloud computing.
Azure
Red Hat OpenShift combines the innovation of enterprise Kubernetes with
the world's leading enterprise Linux platform, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux, running on the scale and power of Azure. Together, these
technologies provide a powerful solution for more easily managing and
orchestrating cloud-native workloads across a hybrid cloud environment.
With Azure Red Hat OpenShift, customers can also bring containerized
applications into workflows where they exist, while mitigating many of
the inherent complexities of container management.
A
fully-managed, jointly-operated service, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is
backed by both the open source expertise of Red Hat and the public cloud
might of Microsoft. Customers receive an integrated experience,
including unified sign-up, on-boarding, service management and technical
support. The service is added into customers' existing Azure bill,
further streamlining the user experience.
Additionally, Azure Red Hat OpenShift offers enterprise developers and operations teams:
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Fully managed clusters with
master, infrastructure and application nodes managed by Microsoft and
Red Hat; plus, no VMs to operate and no patching required.
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Regulatory compliance will be provided through compliance certifications similar to other Azure services.
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Enhanced flexibility to
more freely move applications from on-premise environments to the Azure
public cloud via the consistent foundation of OpenShift.
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Greater speed to connect to Azure services from on-premises OpenShift deployments.
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Extended productivity with
easier access to Azure public cloud services such as Azure Cosmos DB,
Azure Machine Learning and Azure SQL DB for building the next-generation
of cloud-native enterprise applications.
Azure
Red Hat OpenShift represents Red Hat and Microsoft's continued mutual
commitment to provide a powerful, supported and more secure choice for
developing and deploying hybrid cloud workloads. Jointly supported by
both companies, IT organizations can have greater confidence in adopting
hybrid cloud innovation that meets the requirements of mission-critical
workloads in production.
Microsoft
and Red Hat are also collaborating to bring customers containerized
solutions with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 on Azure, Red Hat Ansible
Engine 2.8 and Ansible Certified modules. In addition, the two companies
are working to deliver SQL Server 2019 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
support and performance enhancements.
Availability
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is available now via Microsoft Azure.