OpenShift epitomizes the concept of Digital Transformation in an extensive way leading an organization towards increased production. The Red Hat technology implements the features of container orchestration by Kubernetes and container image runtime by Docker. The sudden inclination towards such technologies in 2019 reflects the importance of cloud management in the future. Though there are numerous other technologies available for implementing Platform as a Service (PaaS) highlighting the container ecosystem, the changing trends compare and bring together services such as Red Hat OpenShift and VMware Cloud Foundry. Each of them has got their unique features to represent containerization with respect to the varying client requirements.
Red Hat through its OpenShift platform drives digital transformation in organizations with the utmost impact. As a matter of fact, it has won the 2019 Ford IT Innovation Award for building a container service with Kubernetes Operators automation. Modern organizations are set to benefit from this operational flexibility because of the excellence achieved on medium and long-term bases. It reflects IT automation eventually as it is the reason why Stonebranch embraced OpenStack as part of the management of application migration. With the crucial role played by cloud-native development in modernizing IT applications on a huge scale, Stonebranch makes OpenStack the crux of implementation when it comes to orchestration solutions for data and file transfers.
As the availability of full-stack operations in the automated mode through the Red Hat OpenShift platform, the process of managing hybrid cloud solutions over the Kubernetes platform is reviving the industry’s dipping fortunes. It is clearly evident that the battle between Cloud Foundry and OpenShift is fast heating up. IBM has gone a step forward by bringing together both environments in contrast (a herculean task to achieve), which has been the base during a summit organized in The Hague a few months back. Perhaps, the latest release – OpenShift 4.2 – is projected as a hybrid-cloud platform. In fact, it is seen as an effective ploy from Red Hat in order to simplify operations.
Running applications on any cloud by championing the native-centric approach, Red Hat has come a long way with its OpenShift journey. This newfound freedom has catapulted Red Hat OpenShift to be implemented in other domains such as hotel and hospitality. Grupo Pinero is the latest one to join the revolution of cloud management ever since it adopted IBM Cloud Pak for Applications backed up by OpenShift. Some of these are the strong reasons why Martin Klaus believes that Operators are highly powerful. OpenShift 4 is going to be pivotal in future implementations as per the director of Red Hat Cloud Platforms.
Considering all the Red Hat products in detail, the clear winner for the moment is OpenShift because of the hybrid cloud factor. It comes at the right time with Kubernetes thwarting the widening gap between OpenStack and itself. After IBM’s tryst of integrating its blockchain offering with OpenShift, it has reaped huge dividends with Apache CouchDB for hybrid cloud implementations. Furthermore, there are several other implementations in the pipeline such as Service Mesh for the effective simplification of service-to-service communication.
