Red Hat opens new OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service public ...

RHOO is based on OpenShift, which is Red Hat's private PaaS cloud, but this is more than just a PaaS. Red Hat is providing an enterprise-ready ... 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FullBio PostedinLinuxandOpenSource onJuly12,2017 |Topic:Cloud Cloudmigration:Dippinginatoebeforedivingallin WatchNow Cloud Terriblecloudsecurityleavesthedooropenforhackers.Here'swhatyou'redoingwrong Thebestcloudproviderscompared:AWS,Azure,GoogleCloud,andmore RockyLinuxarrivesonGoogleCloud Whatiscloudcomputing?Everythingyouneedtoknowaboutthecloudexplained Infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS)publiccloudsarecommonplace.WeallknowAmazonWebServices(AWS),MicrosoftAzure,andGoogleComputeEngine.Platforms-as-a-Service(PaaS)thatenableyoutobuildcloud-nativeapplicationsarerarer.RedHatischangingthiswithitsnewreleaseofRedHatOpenShiftOnline(RHOO).RHOOisbasedonOpenShift,whichisRedHat'sprivatePaaScloud,butthisismorethanjustaPaaS.RedHatisprovidinganenterprise-readycontainerplatformbasedonintegratedDockercontainers,whichrunonRedHatEnterpriseLinux(RHEL)andaremanagedbyKubernetes.RHOOrunsonAWS.WhileAWSrunsglobally,RHOO'sStaterplanisavailableonAWSUSEastandWest.TheProplanisonlyavailableonUSEastfornow.ItwillsoonbeavailableinEMEAandAPAC.ThepointofOpenShiftOnlineistoenabledeveloperstobuildcloud-nativeappsonacloud-basedcontainerplatformwithouthavingtoworryaboutthecomplexityofprovisioning,managing,andscalingapplicationsasdemandschange.Thus,developerscanfocusonwritingthecodefortheirbusiness,prototypingnewfeatures,orworkingontheirnextbigideawithoutthebusyworkofmanaginginfrastructure.OpenShiftisapolyglotplatformthatsupportsmultiplelanguages.TheseincludeJava(8),.NETCore(1.0,1.1),Node.js(0.10,4,6),PHP(5.5,5.6,7),Python(2.7,3.3,3.4,3.5),Ruby(2.0,2.2,2.3),andPerl(5.16,5.20,5.24).Jenkins(1.x,2.x)isalsoavailableforcontinuousintegrationandcontinuousdeployment(CI/CD).Inaddition,Tomcat(7,8),withsupportforwithJava(7,8,EE),isavailableviaRedHatJBossWebServer.RHOOalsocomeswithOpenShiftQuickstartapplicationtemplatesforCakePHP,Dancer,Django,Node.js,andRubyonRails.Italsooffersoptimizedworkflowstohelpconfigureanddeployapplicationsonanygivenframework,suchasSpringBoot,EclipseVert.x,Node.js,andRedHatJBossMiddleware,helpingdevelopersstarttheirprojecteasierandcodefaster.Fordatabaseservices,RHOOsupportsMariaDB(10.1),MongoDB(2.4,2.6,3.2),MySQL(5.5,5.6,5.7),PostgreSQL(9.2,9.4,9.5),andRedis(3.2).Inshort,RHOOgivesprogrammersprettyeverythingtheyneedtodevelopapplicationswithpopularlanguagesandplatforms.Inthislatestversion,RHOOcomeswiththesenewfeatures:Simplifieddeployment-Newone-clickand"Gitpush"commanddeploymentcapabilitieshavebeenaddedtohelpstreamlineapplicationprovisioninganddeploymentfordevelopersandsysadminsthatdonotneedfullcontroloverthedeploymentlife-cycle. Automaticscaling-Cloudelasticityisenabledthrough automaticapplicationscaling,whichhelpseliminatetheneedfor manualinterventionwhenanincreaseinapplication loadrequiresmoreapplicationinstances.S2Ibuilds-Usingthesource-to-image(S2I)frameworkto buildreproduciblecontainerimages.Thishelpseliminatetheneed fordeveloperstounderstandDocker,orcreateandmanageDocker images.Thisreduceserrorsandenablingprogrammerstofocusonwritingtheir applicationsintheirlanguagesofchoice.IDEintegration-Theplatformfeaturesbuilt-in integrationwithpopularintegrateddevelopmentenvironments(IDEs), includingEclipse,RedHatJBossDeveloperStudio,andTitanium Studio.ThisletsdeveloperskeepusingtheirfavoriteIDE.Middlewareservices-OpenShiftprovideaccesstotheRedHatJBossMiddlewareportfolio ascloud-basedservicesonOpenShift.Theseservicescanbeusedtobuildapplications,integratewithothersystems, orchestrateusingrulesandprocesses,andthenbedeployedacrosshybrid environments.RHOOsisavailableintwoversions.: Starter:Afreeservicethatincludes1GBofmemoryand1GB storageforunrestricteduse.Withit,youcancreateasingleoneprojectwithuptofourservicesusingtwoCPUcores.Pro:Thisisapaidservicethataddsadditionalresources, whichstartsat$50permonthpergigabyteofmemoryorstorage.The Protierisavailableforpurchaseinnearly200countries. OpenShiftProalsoincludesfreeBasicSupportforalimitedperiod oftime.YoucanrunproductionserviceswiththeProplan. Putitalltogether,andAlGillen,IDC'sgroupVPofSoftwareDevelopmentandOpenSource,thinks:"Cloud-nativeapplicationdevelopmentisthekeytounlockingdigitaltransformation.RedHatOpenShift'ssupportforDockerandKubernetes,inconjunctionwithitsabilitytosupportpolyglotlanguages,databasesandapplicationdevelopmentframeworks,promisestoempowerorganizationstodevelopapplicationsmarkedbytherelativeabsenceofvendorlock-inandindigenousportabilityacrossinfrastructures."So,ifyou'reinterestedincloud-nativeprograms,RHOOdemandsalook.Relatedstories:RedHatlaunchesOpenShiftonGoogleCloudRedHatbringsfullJBosssoftwarestacktoOpenShiftRedHat'scloudloveaffair Linux | OpenSource | Developer ShowComments LOGINTOCOMMENT MyProfile LogOut |CommunityGuidelines JoinDiscussionfor:RedHatopensnewOpenShiftPlatform-as-a-Service... 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