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7/24/24, 10:13 AM Red Hat Introduces Enhancements For Red Hat OpenShift - Channel Post MEA
Multi-cluster virtualization monitoring with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management enables users to view all VMs across
multiple Red Hat OpenShift clusters as well as collect and more quickly build reports for the VMs.

Improving the customer experience at the edge
Minimizing service downtime is paramount to delivering a quality experience for customers and is particularly important for
those applications at the edge. To enhance service quality at the edge, Red Hat OpenShift 4.16, introduces a “shift left”
approach with image-based updates (IBU) for single node OpenShift. Single node OpenShift users can now shift a large
portion of the update process to a pre-production environment, which reduces the time spent updating at the production site.
Additionally, if an update fails or the application doesn’t return to a functioning state, it can be rolled back to the pre-update
state. This helps to restore service as quickly as possible, regardless of whether the update is successful or not.

Additionally, the OpenShift-based Appliance Builder is now available as a technology preview to Red Hat partners seeking to
build turnkey, customized appliances with self-contained Red Hat OpenShift instances. The OpenShift-based Appliance Builder
is a container-based utility that builds a disk image that includes the Agent-based Installer, which is used to install multiple Red
Hat OpenShift clusters. This makes it easier to install Red Hat OpenShift at remote edge sites at scale, as it can be done with
limited or no connectivity and without the need for an external registry.

Scaling workload security across the hybrid cloud
According to Red Hat’s 2024 State of Kubernetes Security Report, security issues continue to impact business outcomes, with
67% of respondents indicating that their companies delayed or slowed application development as a result of rising concerns.
Additionally, the complexity of container-based Kubernetes environments is also a factor that some organizations still struggle
with.

Helping organizations take a security-forward approach to building, deploying and maintaining cloud-native applications at
scale, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service is now generally available. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud
Service is a fully managed Kubernetes-native security cloud service that supports both Red Hat OpenShift as well as non-Red
Hat Kubernetes platforms, including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and
Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). With Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service, organizations can start
securing workloads within minutes while scaling more easily across clouds and geographies without the additional overhead or
complexities.

Red Hat OpenShift 4.16 is now generally available.
Mike Barrett, vice president and general manager, Hybrid Cloud Platforms, Red Hat, says, “Being able to more quickly
modernize both infrastructure and applications are crucial capabilities to better support customer needs — but this can’t be
done overnight. As organizations make technology decisions in support of their AI strategies, both for today and tomorrow, they
need platforms that set them up for future success while also balancing the demands of their legacy applications and
environments. With Red Hat OpenShift 4.16, organizations can focus on both incremental improvements and modernization.
Red Hat OpenShift helps customers prepare their infrastructure for the demands of AI while managing and maintaining
traditional, mission-critical applications and infrastructure like virtualized environments, all from a single platform.”

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