Red Hat OpenShift and Operators
This is the first in a series of Red Hat News articles that will discuss some of the technologies associated with the acquisition and their implications for our clients.
Containers are technologies that allow you to package and isolate applications with their entire runtime environment. This makes it easy to move the contained application between environments (dev, test, production, on-premise, clouds, etc.). Kubernetes allows containers to scale and makes them smart. Kubernetes eliminates many of the manual processes involved in deploying and scaling containerized applications. The Red Hat Operator Framework goes beyond Kubernetes and takes human operational knowledge and encodes it into software that is more easily packaged and shared with consumers.
Red Hat OpenShift is an enterprise-ready Kubernetes container platform. OpenShift comes with embedded support for Operators which allows developers and administrators to automate and orchestrate complex tasks required to maintain an application across any cloud where Kubernetes runs. We will be able to provide cloud-like automation capabilities, such as self-service provisioning, self-tuning, data-replication, automated backups, and automated updates, on any infrastructure (on-premises, cloud or hybrid) at lower cost allowing our clients to focus on digital reinvention of their enterprise. Operators take human operational knowledge of a given application or service and encode it into software. They help to codify operational processes into Kubernetes-native infrastructure and services running on top of it, providing a more efficient way of managing Kubernetes-native applications at scale. What’s more, this codification will be implemented by subject matter experts with deep hands-on experience operating these infrastructures and services themselves. We will be able to provider higher-levels of service with a fraction of the human operational costs and do so with greater consistency and reliability than before. Instead of merely keeping the lights running, our clients will be able to focus on digital reinvention and modernization.
