Red Hat Enhances Cloud-Native Security, Application Consistency with Latest Version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
August 09 2017 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
Enterprise Kubernetes platform adds new
container security and compliance features, extends consistent
applications and services across multi-cloud deployments
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red
Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6, the latest version of Red
Hat’s enterprise-grade Kubernetes container application platform.
Organizations across the globe, like Copel Telecom, are turning
towards cloud-native applications as a pathway to digital
transformation, but critical IT needs like greater application
security, compliance and service consistency must still be
answered. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 helps to address
these challenges with a new PCI-DSS applicability guide and
fine-grained network policy and control, as well as the
introduction of new features designed to deliver consistent
applications across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 offers an
enterprise-ready container platform based on Kubernetes 1.6, Red
Hat Enterprise Linux and the integrated docker container runtime.
By combining these open source technologies, Red Hat, as a leading
contributor to both the docker and Kubernetes projects, helps
customers to more quickly roll out new services with the support of
a stable, reliable and more secure enterprise container solution
powered by the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform.
Greater security and complianceModern, cloud-native
applications require the same level and sensitivity to security as
traditional applications, regardless of the broader innovation that
they present. To help enterprises drive more secure operations at
both the container and the host operating system level, Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 introduces several new and
enhanced features designed to further extend enterprise security
and compliance procedures including:
- A PCI DSS product applicability
guide, which helps organizations that accept, process, store or
transmit credit card information understand how the Payment Card
Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) impacts Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform and understand what considerations they should
make in adopting the solution
- Secrets encryption and image
signing allows for the encryption of secrets at rest in backend
storage. OpenShift 3.6 offers an ability for platform
administrators to enforce signature usage on image content in
projects, helping to provide greater assurance that the software
tenants running on specific systems is actually allowed to run
there.
- Enhancements to NetworkPolicy
(Technology Preview) for greater and more nuanced control for
how applications can talk to each other and what network resources
they expose. NetworkPolicy enables users to make services available
while limiting who can access a given application on the
network.
Consistency for hybrid and multi-cloud footprintsThe
enterprise mix of public and private cloud services and physical
resources is not static, as it evolves frequently to meet business
need and new customer demands. Running cloud-native applications
across these footprints requires consistency - these applications
are built from services, which must be accessible across a wide
variety of platforms. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 is
helping to make these services findable and consumable through the
introduction of:
- Service Broker and Service
Catalog (Technology Preview) helps users to search for,
provision and bind application services to their OpenShift
applications, whether those services run in their data center or
public cloud.
- OpenShift Template Broker
(Technology Preview) enables users to select OpenShift
Templates through the new Service Catalog user interface, to deploy
multi-container application services in OpenShift.
- Ansible Playbook Broker (Technology
Preview) enables the use of Ansible Playbooks for deploying
application services on OpenShift and to help bind applications
together, regardless of whether the services come from within the
OpenShift cluster or elsewhere, including the public cloud.
- Integrated install of Container
Native Storage built with Red Hat Gluster Storage delivers
highly available, three way replicated storage for the OpenShift
registry as well as ready-to-consume persistent storage on initial
installation of OpenShift.
AvailabilityRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 is
available now via the Red Hat Customer Portal.
Supporting QuotesAshesh Badani, vice president and
general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat“Cloud-native applications are
not immune from the ‘mundane’ needs of traditional applications,
including greater security and compliance, and face an additional
challenge in providing a consistent developer experience across
cloud footprints. The latest version of Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform adds new tools and resources to help meet security and
compliance needs, including network controls for detailed control
of networked resources, along with the emerging capability to
deliver services across cloud offerings consistently.”
Nilceu Romero Silva, CIO, Copel Telecom“OpenShift gives us a
flexible, automated platform to increase application control and
management. It facilitates the tracking of resources used and the
costs related to each department, and also helps to accelerate the
delivery of applications. With Red Hat, we built a development and
production environments that can handle even the most critical
application, with higher availability and lower operational costs.
Now, we currently plan to migrate 100 percent of our applications
and have all new applications developed in our Red Hat OpenShift
and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP)
infrastructure.”
Additional Resources
- Read more about Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform 3.6 on the OpenShift Blog
- Learn more about Container Native
Storage
- Sign up for OpenShift Online
- Learn more about Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform with the OpenShift Interactive Learning
Portal
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