Having trouble bringing containers into production? Red Hat and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have an answer. They're optimizing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP), Red Hat's Kubernetes container orchestration platform, on HPE platforms, including HPE Synergy.
Sure, it's easy to deploy containerized applications in development and test environments, but it's not so easy in enterprise-sized production environments. Enterprises often require container scalability, added security features, persistent storage, and manageability to deploy containers in production. To help speed up container application delivery, HPE and Red Hat are collaborating in what HPE calls the industry's "first composable infrastructure".
In addition, the two companies are also collaborating to offer services to help customers adopt RHOCP with HPE platforms from proof of concept to production.
"Deploying large-scale container environments to the enterprise data center is not simple," said Neil MacDonald, HPE Blade System's VP, in a statement. "Through our long-standing collaboration with Red Hat, we're aiming to accelerate the adoption and deployment of the RHOCP with HPE solutions from proof of concept to large-scale deployment. Customers of both companies can now modernize their platform leveraging each of our services, support, and validated RHOCP technology stacks on HPE Synergy and HPE Nimble and 3PAR storage arrays."
"DevOps and agile application development are helping customers to deliver on the promise of digital transformation with accelerated application development and microservices architectures," added Ashesh Badani, Red Hat's OpenShift VP. "Together, Red Hat and HPE aim to deliver a container-based solution that enables customers to not only build new cloud-native apps and microservices, but also to modernize legacy applications."
This jointly engineered container solution is optimized for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) by RHOCP and for running cloud-native microservices applications alongside existing traditional and stateful applications. Red Hat Ansible Tower, Red Hat's DevOps tool, and HPE Synergy Composer will automate container deployment in a highly available environment, so organizations can take advantage of container benefits sooner and with less risk.
Specifically HPE will pair key components of its hybrid IT products and services portfolio with the following Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform capabilities:
This hardware and software stack will be available in September 2018.
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