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Red Hat brings cloud-native
capabilities to software partner
with Kubernetes Operators
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Kubernetes Operators will
help software companies
more easily deliver Red
Hat OpenShift-tested
and validated cloud-
native applications and
services across hybrid and
multicloud footprints.
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ed Hat, the world’s leading provider
of open source solutions, has
introduced Kubernetes Operators
to the Red Hat OpenShift ecosystem,
providing a simplified path for software
partners to ultimately deliver tested and
validated Kubernetes applications on the
industry’s most comprehensive enterprise
Kubernetes platform. Developed with the
Operator Framework open source toolkit,
Operators help to remove the barriers to
building complex, stateful applications for
Kubernetes, resulting in services designed
to ‘just work’ across any cloud where
Kubernetes runs.
Operators on Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform launches with broad industry
support. At launch, more than 60 software
partners have committed support for the
Kubernetes Operator Framework initiative
introduced by Red Hat.
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For software companies, building and
maintaining cloud-native applications today
is not a simple task; they must address
significant complexities during the initial
build and provide maintenance across
siloed cloud footprints. Helping to address
these challenges are Operators, a method
of packaging, deploying and managing a
Kubernetes application. and enterprise-grade support, resulting in a
comprehensive, industry-leading Kubernetes
platform to meet modern enterprise needs
that is backed by a robust software partner
ecosystem. Red Hat is working on a future
enhancement that will enable software
partners to test and validate their Operators
for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
against Red Hat OpenShift.
A Kubernetes application is an application
that is both deployed on Kubernetes and
managed using the Kubernetes APIs and
kubectl tooling. Kubernetes Operators
simplify application development for
Kubernetes platforms by abstracting away
complexities and coding human operational
knowledge into applications, creating
services that can function without human
intervention. This service automation can
improve the lives of both developers and
operations teams, enabling Kubernetes
applications to function like cloud services,
from self-healing and self-provisioning
capabilities to easier management and
maintenance at production-scale. This will help to provide assurances that the
application is part of Red Hat’s expansive
and supported ecosystem and gives software
companies the knowledge that their
application will work as intended on any Red
Hat OpenShift instance.
Built from the Operator Framework,
applications can be