Red Hat® OpenShift® on IBM Cloud™ unlocks the power of IBM Cloud for the Red Hat community. We’re excited to announce the arrival of OpenShift 4.3, with significant updates from 3.11.

OpenShift is for developers

OpenShift 4 comes with some major improvements geared for developers. Notably, OpenShift 4 is built on operators, a way of packaging, running, and maintaining Kubernetes apps. OperatorHub comes embedded directly into OpenShift, allowing you to quickly deploy integrations with IBM Cloud, Red Hat, and vendor-provided services. This is just one of the ways OpenShift is improving the developer experience. Take a look into a few of the developer-ready features that OpenShift supports for immediate use:

• Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces, an integrated development environment that leverages the power of Kubernetes and OpenShift.
• OpenShift Service Mesh, based on Istio and integrated with Kiali, Jaeger, and more.
• OpenShift Pipelines, cloud-native continuous integration and continuous delivery, based on Tekton Pipelines.

OpenShift is for enterprises

Enterprises today are building containerized applications on infrastructure from a number of cloud vendors, and prioritize flexibility across these environments. Although Kubernetes is a strong solution for enabling hybrid and even multi-cloud architectures, there is a growing need for reducing complexity by streamlining DevOps, hardening security, and providing seamless portability. Red Hat OpenShift rises to that challenge, providing enterprise-ready capabilities geared to ease onboarding onto container-based app development, while maintaining industry-grade security.

Combine this with IBM Cloud, where Red Hat OpenShift runs on the same infrastructure as 20,000 production Kubernetes clusters, and the result is a world-class experience. With Red Hat OpenShift 4 and IBM Cloud together, clients have access to a flexible, fully managed solution to quickly create and manage their clusters in the cloud. Let us handle the infrastructure, security, and provisioning – you focus on developing your next-generation cloud applications.

What’s new with OpenShift 4 on IBM Cloud?

We know you’re excited to get your hands on the new capabilities on OpenShift 4 on IBM Cloud. To get started quickly, check out the latest content we’ve developed.

• An introduction to OpenShift 4

• Three key features for developers on OpenShift 4 on IBM Cloud

• Focus on data privacy with a back end for a mobile loyalty app

• Fun with Operator Hub

• Build a Tekton Pipeline to deploy a mobile app back end to OpenShift 4

• Threat modeling in the context of microservice architectures

• Deploy a sample currency exchange app to OpenShift using Red Hat Universal Base Image

Next steps

• Check out IBM Boosts Security and Productivity with Red Hat OpenShift 4.3 on IBM Cloud, which highlights the industry leading benefits this release offers to IBM Cloud users.

• Become part of the team building solutions to fight the global challenges, COVID-19, and climate change as part of Call for Code 2020 Global Challenge program.

• Attend workshops scheduled in your time zone at Kubernetes with Red Hat OpenShift World Tour to get hands on experience with Kubernetes and the OpenShift container orchestration platform.

• Explore lots of great content on IBM Developer at Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud.

Repurpose your skills as you modernize your apps

• Blog: Red Hat OpenShift 4.3 on IBM Cloud introduces improvements for developers(this blog)
• Video: Master class: A deep dive into cloud-native Java featuring Jakarta EE and Eclipse MicroProfile
• Series: Open Liberty and Eclipse MicroProfile
• Podcast: The Application Modernization Series: Skills