Since August 26, 2024, Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift is generally available. This integration combines Kubernetes with OpenStack, and hence helps service providers scale faster and maximize resources. It enhances resource management, scalability, flexibility across hybrid clouds, and simplifies development and DevOps practices.
What is Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift?
Red Hat OpenStack Services
Red Hat OpenStack Services is a suite of tools and services. It allows organizations to build and manage private and public clouds using the OpenStack platform. OpenStack is an open-source platform that uses pooled virtual resources to create and manage cloud environments. It includes various components for compute, networking, storage, and identity services. Thereby, it enables the deployment of scalable and flexible cloud infrastructures.
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift is a family of containerization software products. Its flagship product is OpenShift Container Platform. This hybrid cloud platform as a service (PaaS) is built around Linux containers orchestrated and managed by Kubernetes. OpenShift provides a comprehensive set of tools and services for developing, deploying, and managing applications in a cloud environment.
Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift
Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift integrates the capabilities of Red Hat OpenStack Platform with Red Hat OpenShift. This integration aims to provide a unified platform for managing both traditional virtualized applications and modern cloud-native applications.
Key Benefits of Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift
- Preserve Your Investments: You can keep using your existing OpenStack APIs without the hassle of rewriting your workloads.
- Seamless Migration: Move the OpenStack control plane to OpenShift workloads without affecting your worker nodes.
- Simplified Processes: Enjoy easier installations, faster deployments, and unified management from the core to the edge.
- Versatile Application Support: Run bare-metal, virtualized, and containerized applications all together.
- Efficient Deployments: Achieve fast, repeatable deployments with the help of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and OpenShift Go Operators. Go Operators are built using the Go programming language and the Operator SDK. They help automate the creation, configuration, and management of Kubernetes-native applications.
- Smooth Updates: Benefit from improved updates and upgrades with OpenShift’s rolling capabilities.
- Enhanced Security: Experience better security with encrypted communications and role-based access control.
- Improved Observability: Gain better insights with integrated dashboards in the OpenShift Observability user interface (UI).
FAQ
How does the transition from Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 to Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift work?
With the release of Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift, there is a significant shift in how OpenStack services are deployed and managed. The control plane has moved from traditional containers in Red Hat Enterprise Linux to an advanced pod-based architecture within OpenShift. This transition allows for greater flexibility, scalability, and resource efficiency. Read more here: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/adoption-strategy-red-hat-openstack-services-on-openshift.
More information
Find a blog article here: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-openstack-services-openshift-next-generation-red-hat-openstack-platform.
For the product page, please visit: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openstack-services-on-openshift.
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