Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 is designed to
simplify cloud-native application adoption and containers on bare
metal, helps to enhance agility and innovation while reducing
infrastructure complexity
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14,
the latest version of Red Hat’s massively-scalable, cloud-native
apps-ready Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution. Based on
the OpenStack “Rocky” community release, Red Hat OpenStack Platform
14 more tightly integrates with Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform, the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes
platform, bringing even more support for Kubernetes to
enterprise-grade OpenStack. Paired with capabilities to improve
bare-metal resource consumption and enhance deployment automation,
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 aims to deliver a single
infrastructure offering that can lay the foundation for
traditional, virtualized and cloud-native workloads.
According to Gartner1, “the landscape of cloud adoption is one
of hybrid clouds and multiclouds. By 2020, 75% of organizations
will have deployed a multicloud or hybrid cloud model.” This
indicates to Red Hat that, as a component of hybrid cloud,
massively-scalable private cloud infrastructure like Red Hat
OpenStack Platform can play a key role in how IT organizations
manage traditional and cloud-native workloads in a more consistent
and more reliable fashion.
Built on the backbone of the world’s leading enterprise Linux
platform, Red Hat OpenStack Platform enables enterprises to
transform their IT infrastructure into a more agile, efficient and
innovative environment. Modular by design, it helps to optimize IT
operations for existing traditional applications while serving as
the foundation for cloud-native application development and
deployment.
Enterprise Kubernetes integration with Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform
As the move to containers and cloud-native applications become
prominent pieces of enterprise digital transformation strategies,
being able to effectively deploy and scale enterprise-grade
Kubernetes on OpenStack can become a necessity for IT teams. To
help answer this challenge, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 can not
only host Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform but also automate
critical provisioning and scalability requirements for Red Hat’s
enterprise Kubernetes platform. These capabilities include:
- Automated provisioning of bare metal
and virtual infrastructure resources for Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux nodes, helping to
provide a unified cloud solution for both container and virtualized
workloads for organizations moving towards cloud-native workloads
on bare metal.
- Automated deployment of
production-ready, high-availability Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform clusters, helping to provide a path towards continuous
operations without a single point of failure.
- Integrated networking enabling
OpenShift container-based and OpenStack virtual workloads from the
same tenant to be connected to the same virtual network (Kuryr)
increasing performance of the architecture
- Automated use of built-in OpenStack
load balancer services to front-end container based workloads
- Use of built-in OpenStack object
storage to more efficiently host container registries
Additionally, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 bring director-based
scale-out and scale-in Red Hat OpenShift nodes, enabling businesses
to expand or retract resources as workload requirements change.
This can help to improve computing efficiency without limiting an
organization’s ability to explore new service offerings or lines of
business.
Extended Red Hat OpenStack Platform management for bare metal
nodes
Running emerging workloads on bare-metal servers offers
enterprises the ability to fully harness the power of cloud-native
technologies with the processing power of modern hardware. To
better meet this need, Red Hat offers a more consistent management
experience between virtualized and bare metal nodes.
Through Red Hat OpenStack Platform for bare metal, IT teams can
now bring cloud-native workloads, like those running on Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform, to bare-metal servers in a managed,
consistent fashion, enabling enhanced speed and agility without
sacrificing control or stability of operations. As a part of this,
the integration of Ansible-networking with bare metal provisioning
automates reconfiguration of network switches to enable proper
tenant isolation.
Additionally, Red Hat OpenStack Platform on bare metal combines
with a related hardware certification program. This is designed to
deliver a simplified, lower cost purchasing option while providing
customer confidence that the hardware is certified to “just
work.”
Simplified Red Hat OpenStack Platform deployments with Red
Hat Ansible Automation
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 further extends integration with
Red Hat Ansible Automation, making the deployment process easier
than in previous versions. IT operations teams can now preview a
Red Hat OpenStack Platform deployment before it goes live, helping
them to better identify and resolve issues. Additional visibility
is provided during the deployment process itself, enabling faster
identification of failure points and remediation, including the
capacity to repeat and re-apply isolated deployment steps if
needed.
The latest version of Red Hat’s IaaS platform brings additional
enhanced and new features to enterprise customers as well,
including:
- Processor scalability for emerging
and extreme workloads like artificial intelligence (AI) and
graphics rendering through a Technology Preview of NVIDIA GRID
Virtual PC (vPC) capabilities. This enables the sharing of NVIDIA
graphics processing units (GPUs) across virtual machines and
applications, making it easier to scale resources to meet the
demands of intensive applications.
- Improved storage availability,
management, data migration and security through enhanced
integration with Red Hat Ceph Storage including the ability to
share the same Cinder storage volume across multiple virtual
machines
- Inclusion of Skydive, a
innovative, layer-independent network analysis tool that simplifies
the validation, documentation and troubleshooting of complex
virtual network topologies as a Technology Preview
Multi-architecture support
There is no one-size-fits-all deployment for enterprise IT -
each organization must select a specific mix of hardware,
infrastructure software and end user applications that best map to
their unique needs. Red Hat continues to be committed to enabling
greater customer choice with Red Hat OpenStack Platform, providing
support on not only x86 hardware but also on IBM Power.
Empowering customers and partners across industries
Red Hat OpenStack Platform, combined with Red Hat’s open source
leadership, can provide a consistent experience across services,
support, consumption model and lifecycle management, helping to
empower IT teams across industries. Hundreds of customers rely on
Red Hat OpenStack Platform to power their hybrid and private clouds
for a variety of deployments, including BBVA; Cathay Pacific; Duke
Health; IAG; Lotte Data Communication; Massachusetts Open Cloud;
Paddy Power Betfair; and Tata Communications.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform is also backed by a robust ecosystem
of partners for enterprises businesses including Dell EMC, Intel,
Lenovo, NetApp, and Rackspace, and also enjoys broad support in the
telecommunications industry, with Cisco, Ericsson, Huawei, NEC, and
Nokia, among others.
Availability
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 will be available in the coming
weeks via the Red Hat Customer Portal and as a component of both
Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure and Red Hat Cloud Suite.
Supporting Quotes
Joe Fernandes, vice president, Products, Cloud Platforms Red
Hat“As the de facto standard in Linux container orchestration,
Kubernetes adoption is often a key part of the technology mix for
enterprise digital transformation but this can require a scalable,
flexible foundation for organizations to realize its full
potential. By more tightly integrating the industry’s most
comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform in Red Hat OpenShift
with the latest version of Red Hat OpenStack Platform, we’re
providing a robust, more reliable foundation for cloud-native
workloads. This enables IT teams to more effectively embrace
innovation with the knowledge that they can expand, balance and
manage the underlying infrastructure across various footprints,
including bare-metal servers.”
Thomas Andrew, head of Cloud Automation, Paddy Power Betfair“Red
Hat OpenStack Platform has been a key component in enabling us to
consolidate two brands onto a single technology stack, taking the
highest service-level agreements from each brand and working to
automate the implementation and migration of all our applications
to a cloud footprint. This has also provided a hybrid cloud
stepping stone, making it easier for us to compare other offerings
from a position of security and make proactive, considered
decisions regarding our future direction.”
Additional Resources
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Platform
- Read more about Red Hat’s approach to
hybrid cloud
- Find more Red Hat customer success
stories
- Read more about how Red Hat OpenStack
Platform is helping to fuel telecommunications innovation
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1 Gartner Market Insight: Making Lots of Money in the New World
of Hybrid Cloud and Multicloud, Sid Nag and David Ackerman,
September 7, 2018
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