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Red Hat OpenShift 4.3 on IBM Cloud introduces improvements for developers
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…
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.
Three key features for developers on OpenShift 4 on IBM Cloud
Focus on data privacy with a back end for a mobile loyalty app
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
- Series: Red Hat OpenShift 101