Red Hat Bridges Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Deployments with Latest Version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
August 01 2017 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 bolsters security
functionality and performance, Linux container features and
automation capabilities for complex IT environments
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4, the latest version of the world’s leading
enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 offers new
automation capabilities designed to limit IT complexity while
enhancing workload security and performance for traditional and
cloud-native applications. This provides a powerful, flexible
operating system backbone to address enterprise IT needs across
physical servers, virtual machines and hybrid, public and
multi-cloud footprints.
From traditional physical servers and virtual machines to
next-generation cloud and container services, the operating system
serves as a critical linchpin in connecting deployment footprints
across the enterprise. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 acts as this
keystone by pairing open source innovation with enterprise-grade
stability, providing a foundation for digital transformation while
still maintaining existing systems and workloads.
Security FeaturesAs threats to IT infrastructure evolve,
enterprises require more security innovation in their software
stack to help prevent breaches and more proactively manage
vulnerabilities. This innovation starts at the operating system
level, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 brings to bear new and
enhanced features designed to foster a more secure production
environment for mission-critical workloads, both cloud-native and
traditional. This includes:
- Updated audit capabilities to help
simplify how administrators filter the events logged by the audit
system, gather more information from critical events and to
interpret large numbers of records.
- USB Guard, a feature that allows for
greater control over how plug-and-play devices can be used by
specific users to help limit both data leaks and data
injection.
- Enhanced container security
functionality with full support for using SELinux with OverlayFS
helps secure the underlying file system and provides the ability to
use docker and use namespaces together for fine-grained access
control.
PerformanceModern business applications require more
bandwidth and increased storage, placing a performance strain on
traditional operating systems and hardware. Engineered to meet the
needs of organizations seeking to both modernize and optimize their
enterprise IT infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 offers new
features designed to improve the performance of both networking and
storage. New features include:
- Support for NVMe Over Fabric helps to
provide customers with increased flexibility and reduced overhead
when accessing high performance NVMe storage devices located in the
data center on both Ethernet or Infiniband fabric
infrastructures.
- General enhancements to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux’s performance when deployed on the public cloud,
highlighted by decreased boot times to better enable
mission-critical applications to start sooner, and support for the
Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to
enable new network capabilities.
Linux Containers and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic
HostLinux containers present an evolution in how businesses
develop, deploy, and manage modern applications, helping
enterprises scale to new levels of operational efficiency, speed
application development and drive increased flexibility in managing
application life cycles. Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4, the
latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host further
refines enterprise-grade Linux containers with enhancements that
include:
- Improved security without sacrificing
performance, thanks to integrated support for SELinux and
OverlayFS, as well as full support for the overlay2 storage graph
driver.
- Full support for package layering with
rpm-ostree, providing a means of adding packages like monitoring
agents and drivers to the host operating system.
- The introduction of LiveFS as a
Technology Preview, which enables users to install security updates
and layer packages without a reboot.
Management and automationWith datacenter footprints that
span from bare-metal to the cloud, the complexity associated with
controlling IT environments continues to increase. Complementing
the capabilities of Red Hat Satellite and automation via Ansible
Tower, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 introduces Red Hat Enterprise
Linux System Roles as a Technology Preview. System Roles provide a
common management interface across all major versions of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, enabling an automated workflow via Ansible
automation to be created once and used across large, heterogeneous
Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments without additional
modifications.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for multiple architecturesRed
Hat remains committed to providing customer choice when it comes to
datacenter infrastructure. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 maintains
this commitment with availability across multiple architectures,
including IBM Power, IBM z Systems and 64-bit ARM (as a Development
Preview). For the IBM Power Little Endian architecture, this
release enables support for the High Availability and Resilient
Storage Add-Ons as well as the Open Container Initiative (OCI)
runtime and image format.
Supporting QuoteJim Totton, vice president and general
manager, Platforms Business Unit, Red Hat“The modern enterprise
will not be solely based in physical servers or cloud services;
rather, the path to digital transformation weaves across four
distinct technology footprints. The latest version of the world’s
leading enterprise Linux platform supports each of these deployment
methodologies with new security features, improved performance and
introduces new automation capabilities to cut through the inherent
complexities of heterogeneous datacenters.”
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