14 DAY TRIAL // Red Hat is announcing the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4, the next major release of the company's container application platform.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 brings dynamic storage provisioning functionality for both cloud-native and traditional apps, as well as multi-tenant capabilities while keeping a focus existing mission-critical workloads. These promise to help various organizations like Pioneer and Discovery Health to embrace LXC (Linux Containers) and other related cloud technologies, such as Kubernetes.
While the new multi-tenant features implemented in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 offer support for multiple apps, deployment processes, and teams in a hybrid cloud environment, other related technologies promise to deliver innovative business services and applications to any organization willing to adopt them without sacrificing their current IT purchases.
"The latest version of our flagship container application platform goes a step beyond simply creating and deploying applications by addressing the growing storage needs of both stateful and stateless applications across the hybrid cloud, allowing for coexistence of modern and future-forward workloads on a single, enterprise-ready platform," said Ashesh Badanivice, President and General Manager, OpenShift, Red Hat.
Now shipping with Kubernetes 1.4 and latest Docker container runtime
Shipping with the Kubernetes 1.4 production-grade container orchestration tool, as well as the latest Docker runtime, the widely-used open-source application container engine, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 promises to help customers instantly deploy new services on their existing IT infrastructure powered by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system.
Besides implementing a next-level container storage that now supports dynamic storage provisioning, and its enhanced multi-tenancy capabilities, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 also comes with new hybrid cloud reference architectures that allow customers to run the container application platform on OpenStack, Google Cloud Engine, Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMWare, and Microsoft Azure.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 is available starting today for customers with an active subscription via the company's Red Hat Customer Portal. The new container application platform version is also available directly from the Red Hat Cloud Suite as a pre-integrated offering, along with other popular products, including Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, and Red Hat Virtualization.