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New version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
launched for hybrid cloud environments
Red Hat has launched Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7, the latest
version of Red Hat’s enterprise-grade Kubernetes container application platform.
The new platform helps IT organisations to build and manage applications that
use services from the data centre to the public cloud.
The newest iteration is claimed to be the industry’s most
comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform; it includes
native integrations with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Service Brokers that enable developers to bind services
across AWS and on-premise resources to create modern
applications while providing a consistent, open standards-
based foundation to drive business evolution.
“Modern, cloud-native applications are not monolithic stacks with clear-cut
needs and resources; so to more effectively embrace modern applications, IT
organisations need to re-imagine how their developers find, provision and consume
critical services and resources across a hybrid architecture. Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform 3.7 addresses these needs head-on by providing hybrid access to
services through its service catalogue, enabling developers to more easily find and
bind the necessary services to their business-critical applications—no matter where
these services exist—and adding close integration with AWS to further streamline
cloud-native development and deployment,” said Ashesh Badani, vice president and
general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 will ship with OpenShift Template
Broker, which turns any OpenShift Template into a discoverable service for
application developers using OpenShift. OpenShift Templates are lists of OpenShift
objects that can be implemented within specific parameters, making it easier for IT
organisations to deploy reusable, composite applications comprising microservices.
Also included with the new platform is OpenShift Ansible Broker for
provisioning and managing services through the OpenShift service catalogue by
using Ansible to define OpenShift Services. OpenShift Ansible Broker enables users
to provision services both on and off the OpenShift platform, helping to simplify
and automate complex workflows involving varied services and applications across
on-premise and cloud-based resources.
Announcing the general availability of Bash in AzureCloud Shell
Microsoft has announced the availability of Bash in Azure Cloud Shell. Bash in
Cloud Shell comes equipped with commonly used CLI tools, including Linux shell
interpreters, Azure tools, text editors, source control, build tools, container tools,
database tools, and more.
Justin Luk, programme manager, Azure
Compute, announced that Bash in Cloud Shell will
provide an interactive Web-based, Linux command
line experience from virtually anywhere. With
a single click through the Azure portal, Azure
documentation, or the Azure mobile app, users will
gain access to a secure and authenticated Azure
workstation to manage and deploy resources from
a native Linux environment held in Azure.
Bash in Cloud Shell will enable simple, secure authentication to use Azure
resources with Azure CLI 2.0. Azure file shares enable file persistence through
CloudDrive to store scripts and settings.
MariaDB Foundation gets a
new platinum level sponsor
MariaDB Foundation recently
announced that Microsoft has
become a platinum sponsor. The
sponsorship will help the Foundation
in its goals to support continuity and
open collaboration in the MariaDB
ecosystem, and to drive adoption,
serving an ever-growing community
of users and developers.
“Joining the MariaDB
Foundation as a platinum member
is a natural next step in Microsoft’s
open source
journey. In
addition to
Microsoft
Azure’s strong
support for
open source technologies, developers
can use their favourite database as a
fully managed service on Microsoft
Azure that will soon include
MariaDB,” said Rohan Kumar, GM
for database systems at Microsoft.
Monty Widenius, founder of
MySQL and MariaDB, stated,
“Microsoft is here to learn from
and contribute to the MariaDB
ecosystem. The MariaDB Foundation
welcomes and supports Microsoft
towards this goal.”
One of the fundamental principles
in Azure is about choice. Customers
of Azure will now be able to run the
apps they love, and Microsoft wants
to make sure that the MySQL and
MariaDB experience on Windows and
Linux hosts in Azure is excellent.
Microsoft’s community
engagement through open source
foundations helps to nurture and
advance the core technologies that
the IT industry relies upon. MariaDB
is a natural partner to Microsoft, as
it is the fastest growing open source
database. In most Linux distributions,
MySQL has already been completely
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