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3/4/25, 11:06 AM Red Hat Enhances Security and Virtualization Experience with Latest Version of Red Hat OpenShift
Tree-view navigation, available as a technology preview, enables users to logically group
VMs into folders which allows for a more granular grouping. Additionally, with logical
grouping, also available as a technology preview, users have a quicker and easier way to
navigate between VMs using a single click.

Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 also enhances user-defined networks with Border Gateway Protocol
(BGP), which improves segmentation and supports advanced use cases like VM static IP
assignment, live migration and stronger multi-tenancy.

Extending choice for greater hybrid cloud innovation

Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 expands support to additional public cloud providers, providing
users with increased flexibility for how and where they choose to run their workloads. Red
Hat OpenShift now supports bare-metal deployments on Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure. Additionally, for users looking for virtualization in the public cloud, Red Hat
OpenShift Virtualization is now available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a technology
preview.

Simplified operations for security

Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 introduces new security features designed to help drive more
resilient operations while decreasing potential risks. Secret store container storage interface
(CSI) driver is now generally available and provides users with a vendor-agnostic solution for
managing credentials and sensitive information for applications. Workloads on Red Hat
OpenShift can access external secrets managers without storing secrets on the cluster,
enhancing overall security hygiene and simplifying credential management. This allows for
clusters to remain unaware of secrets, thereby further reducing risk. Additionally, Secret
Store CSI Driver enhances complementary solutions, such as OpenShift GitOps and
OpenShift Pipelines, by enabling them to consume secrets from an external secrets
manager in a more secure way.

Availability
Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 is now generally available. More information, including how to
upgrade to the latest version, is available here.

Supporting Quotes
Mike Barrett, vice president and general manager, Hybrid Cloud Platforms, Red Hat
“Many organizations have reached an inflection point with their virtualized infrastructure,
needing to make decisions quickly on their future direction. Red Hat OpenShift meets
today’s virtualization needs and offers a simplified pathway to migration, but also enables
organizations to keep an eye on the future via application modernization. With Red Hat
OpenShift, organizations are able to protect their traditional investments while adopting a
platformthat enables them to seamlessly transition to an AI future.”

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