First, the company announced the general availability of Red Hat Device Edge, which was created to provide a platform for deploying devices at the edge. It includes an operating system optimized for the edge and a supported distribution of the lightweight Kubernetes project MicroShift, providing customers with two deployment options.

According to Red Hat, other benefits include a minimal footprint, a consistent operational experience, workload flexibility, and simplified deployment.  

Next, it released Red Hat OpenShift 4.14. The latest version includes the general availability of hosted control planes, which reduces management costs, improves cluster provisioning time, helps overcome limitations due to cluster scale, and decouples control planes from workloads for greater security. Red Hat claims that hosted control planes can save 30% in infrastructure costs and 60% in developer time. 

Other capabilities include the ability to run virtual machines and containers side by side using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, support for NVIDIA GPU accelerators, and the availability of Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud Marketplace. 

The company also revealed it has donated five new plugins to Backstage, which is a framework for building developer portals. The technologies that correspond to the new plugins include Azure Container Registry, JFrog Artifactory, Kiali, Nexus, and 3scale. 

This isn’t the first time Red Hat has contributed to the Backstage community. In 2022, the company first joined that community and then donated five plugins back in May of this year. Those plugins include Application Topology for Kubernetes, Multi Cluster View with Open Cluster Management, Container Image Registry for Quay, Pipelines with Tekton, and Authentication and Authorization with Keycloak. 

“We believe the future of developer productivity depends on the continued evolution and innovation of projects like Backstage, and we’re focused on making this future a reality through contributions that help simplify, extend and accelerate the development process,” said Balaji Sivasubramanian, senior director of Developer Tools Product Management at Red Hat. “Donating these plug-ins to the Backstage community is a reflection of Red Hat’s commitment to helping developers meet the demands of today as they innovate for tomorrow.”

 Finally, Red Hat launched Ansible Inside, which allows developers to embed Ansible Playbooks inside their applications. According to the company, this offering was built for customers who want to embed automation in their applications, but don’t require all of the capabilities offered by Ansible Automation Platform.

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The Red Hat Developer Hub is built from the open-source project Backstage and was built to help navigate the sprawl that DevOps teams often face, according to the company. 

Internal developer portals must be created and maintained which has become a much more complicated task today due to the occurrence of large enterprises inhabited by various tools, continuously innovating security parameters, and legislation that varies by industry and location. The platform was built to improve experiences on platforms related to Kubernetes and containers such as Red Hat OpenShift.

The platform offers a single pane of glass to view all available developer tools and resources to increase productivity, self-service capabilities and guardrails for cloud-native application development, and proper security and governance for developers across the enterprise. 

Red Hat created a package of six plug-ins, titled Red Hat Plug-ins for Backstage that links integral systems to Backstage. The plug-ins include: 

• Application Topology for Kubernetes, which allows developers to inspect the real-time status of software and IT resources allocated to any Kubernetes aim, such as Red Hat OpenShift, with enhanced accuracy. 
• Multicluster View with Open Cluster Manager (OCM), which presents users a peek into groups from Open Cluster Manager’s MulticlusterHub and Multicluster Engine inside Backstage. 
• Container Image Registry for Quay, which updates and accelerates engagement with Quay registries by furnishing an overview into container image data. That involves security slips (CVEs) associated with deployed images
• Pipelines with Tekton, which offers users an insight into the specifics of all Tekton pipeline runs and respective situations throughout all services.
• Authentication and Authorization with Keycloak, which enables platform technicians to load users and groups from Keycloak into Backstage.
• GitOps with Argo CD, which assists in monitoring the health and state of the Argo CD status for services within Backstage.

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This new platform will bring key services and components that will complement Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat OpenShift is a platform for modernizing applications, building cloud-native applications, streamlining development, and more. 

According to the company, components include high-performance data streaming services, API management, service connectivity, and lightweight frameworks and runtimes. 

In addition to working well with Red Hat OpenShift, this new product will work alongside technology from ecosystem partners.

“Application development is undergoing significant change and developers need tools to support this transformation,” said Ken Johnson, vice president and general manager of application services at Red Hat. “We designed Red Hat Application Foundations with a developer-centric mindset, created to work seamlessly with Red Hat OpenShift to easily employ and deliver cloud-native applications, resulting in a simplified process to deliver a greater business value.”

More information about Red Hat Application Foundations is available here. 

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With these integrations, customers will be able to retain the scalability of the OpenShift Container Platform and gain automated security testing as a part of the software delivery process. 

This partnership works to ensure that security is built in as a core component of the software delivery value stream. 

Additionally, cloud developers can embed Contrast Security’s Assess and Protect agents within their source code image in order to allow for continuous vulnerability detection with runtime context. 

This works to ensure that applications are properly protected from targeted attacks in production. 

This partnership also brings teams the ability to trigger automated security tests within native Jenkins pipelines and be sure that security policy gates are up and running and no vulnerabilities are shipped to production.

Finally, users are provided with tasks that can be used to create repeatable pipeline templates within the OpenShift Pipeline environment. Automated vulnerability scanning will be initiated by APIs from the Contrast Secure Coding Platform.

“This partnership is another component to Contrast’s overall mission of ensuring developers are empowered to embed security within their environments without imposing additional work on them. We want to make security a value-add for everyone,” said Sanjay Ramnath, VP of product management at Contrast Security. 

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The new solution provides a private OpenShift environment in a shared, multi-tenant cluster that is pre-configured with a set of developer tools. The tight integrations between the infrastructure and tools provide a safe environment for prototyping or building new applications, creating containers from source files or Docker files and more, according to the company. 

Red Hat also announced updates to many of its tools which can be coupled with the Developer Sandbox. 

Red Hat OpenShift 4.7 web console developer perspective makes it easier for developers to get started with new integrations and fully-customizable quick starts. 

The CLI tool odo 2.1 also received an extended declarative developer workspace (devfile) to make it easier to build and debug apps. 

Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces 2.8 introduces a new dashboard that delivers a faster, more streamlined and more consistent user experience and Red Hat CodeReady Studio 12.19 further extends developer tooling with the ability to bootstrap and log into a developer sandbox, or to add, remove and edit devfile registries.

Other updated tools include Red Hat CodeReady Dependency Analytics 0.3.2, Red Hat CodeReady Containers 1.25, Eclipse JKube 1.2 and the new GitHub Actions for Red Hat OpenShift and Enterprise Linux provides users with an easier way to build and deploy their containerized applications.

Additional details on the new Developer Sandbox and updated tooling is available here.

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OpenShift GitOps provides IT teams with GitOps workflows to use for cluster configuration and application delivery. It is based on the idea of GitOps, which enables developers and operations teams to use a Git repository as a single source of trust. 

According to Red Hat, one of the key benefits of GitOps is the automation of infrastructure and deployment requirements, which leads to faster, more secure, and scalable development.

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OpenShift Pipelines runs in each step of the CI/CD pipeline in its own container. It allows each step to scale independently, which helps reduce the cost and overhead for running the pipeline. 

Red Hat believes OpenShift Pipelines will provide teams with full control over their delivery pipeline, plugins, and access control without needing to manage a central CI/CD server. 

“With OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines, we are working to remove the false wall between developers and IT operations, enabling the teams to work together earlier in the application development process,” said Ashesh Badani, senior vice president of Cloud Platforms at Red Hat. “This not only helps to find and prevent defects more quickly in the software delivery process, but also streamlines the process as a whole by providing increased visibility and security across the lifecycle.”

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The OpenShift Operator Certification is meant to give users confidence when building next-generation projects on Red Hat’s Kuberentes and containers app platform OpenShift. With the certification, users will be able to deploy KubeMQ through the Red Hat OpenShift Operator catalog.

‘KubeMQ is a Kubernetes message queue broker, enterprise-grade, scalable, highly available and more secure. Helping enterprises to build stable microservices solutions that can be easily scaled as well as enabling additional microservices to be quickly developed and added to the solution,” wrote in a post. 

KubeMQ is Kubernetes native, easy to deploy, provides enterprise-grade assurance and is available on all messaging patterns. 

“We are proud to deliver a Red Hat OpenShift Certified Operator. It is an important milestone for KubeMQ as it contributes to earning industry recognition as a qualified enterprise solution. The KubeMQ Operator will provide enterprises with simple and robust access to our Kubernetes native message queue,” said Gil Eyal, KubeMQ’s CEO.

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The release also includes Operator Hub, which makes the concept of operators a first-class citizen in the platform update, according to Brian Micklea, who runs the developer business unit at Red Hat. The hub was created by Red Hat, AWS, Azure and Google as the community place to store their operators and make them available to the community.

“We think the platform, the development experience, the way to onboard applications is pretty good, and continues to get better, but we really had to revamp the entire operational experience. It was too complicated for customers to get up and running; it was too tough for them to maintain because new releases were coming out every quarter,” Micklea told SD Times, explaining the reasons behind the rearchitected platform. “There was just this overall sense of, if people are basing their experiences on what the public cloud is like, ease of setup, don’t have to maintain much and scale it easily, you have to embed that in the platform.”

The operator framework was rolled out last May to enable organizations to bring stateful applications into Kubernetes by managing application maintenance, failover and scaling. Micklea said when operators were introduced, the community wanted this to be a de facto way they ship their software going forward. “For us, the operator framework — the Operator Hub — opens a lot of doors in terms of people feeling confident about running Big Data or AI workloads.”

Further, Red Hat has created a Certified Operator program, for enterprises that require a known support path and certifies the companies behind the operator are working together for a deeper level of integration, he said.

Among other new features in 4.0 are OpenShift Service Mesh that is based on Istio but natively integrates on the operations side with Prometheus for monitoring and Grafana for dashboards, and on the developer side with Jaeger for native tracing and Kiali for visualizing what microservices are in the service mesh and how they are connected, Micklea said.

Red Hat is going into beta with serverless technology on the platform, specifically Knative, which provides the plumbing that makes serverless work. Micklea said the company is partnering with frameworks on top of Knative so they can have consistency of experience between what they do on-premises and in the cloud.

CodeReady Workspaces, announced in GA in March, is for customers who want a well-defined developer experience. “Customers have said, ‘We want to provide the developer with the IDE, and on the back end we want to wire that in so they can write their code, commit their code, and not have to care about any of the details,’ like where the source code lives, or CI pipelines,” Micklea said. “It’s all just available to them.”

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The service is backed by Red Hat’s expertise in open source and MIcrosoft’s cloud strengths, the companies said. Together, OpenShift and Azure give organizations a way to bring containerized applications into existing workloads, and then manage and orchestrate those workloads in hybrid environments.

“Hybrid cloud provides a clear vision into the future of enterprise computing, where public cloud services, virtualization, Linux containers and bare-metal servers are simply different components of one technology stack,” Paul Cormier, president of products and technologies at Red Hat, said in a statement. “Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides a consistent Kubernetes foundation for enterprises to realize the benefits of hybrid cloud computing, enabling IT leaders to innovate with the backing of industry leaders in Red Hat and Microsoft.”

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The company has revealed it is collaborating with Red Hat to certify the AI-focused data platform to run on Red Hat’s open source container application platform OpenShift.

IBM also announced that it’s launching a new version of ICP for Data — ICP for Data Experiences, meant to serve as an introduction to the platform.

Through ICP for Data Experiences, “developers and data engineers alike can move quickly through the steps it takes to do things like collect and prepare the right data for machine learning models, create predictive analytics models to understand future outcomes, and how to go about deploying and managing these models,” Rob Thomas, general manager of IBM analytics, wrote in a post.

The news of the imminent OpenShift certification follows related news from IBM partner HortonWorks about its own platform, as well as news from earlier this year about IBM and Red Hat’s plans for IBM middleware integration with OpenShift.

“Now with ICP for Data certified for OpenShift, clients will be able to run their cloud-native workloads across OpenShift’s vast landscape and stretching across on premises, public and private clouds,” Thomes wrote.

IBM also announced the addition to ICP for Data with the introduction of analytics query utility QueryPlex, which the company says “is designed to enable people to write analytics queries that can access data anywhere across the enterprise, be it from servers, desktops, mobile devices, a car, etc., as if you were searching a single database. It’s like we’re giving people the ability to SQL the world. And because it’s on ICP for Data, this new feature can help you find the data you’re looking for whether it’s on premises, or on private or public clouds.”

In addition, the company will be sponsoring the StackExchange AI community on the Stack Overflow Network. IBM hopes this will help foster a conversation around AI, machine learning, data science, data governance and hybrid data management.

“Which brings us full circle on the issue at hand – helping empower people and organizations with the easiest, most intuitive yet sophisticated tools and platforms to begin managing and analyzing their mounting data – all with an eye on AI. Because be forewarned, no enterprise will scale the AI ladder without having its data prepped, managed, available and accessible. We think we’ve built the most powerful system yet to help you accomplish this,” Thomas added.

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