FEATURE
Red Hat
Summit 2017
Red Hat Summit 2017 took place between 2-4 May in Boston, Massachusetts.
The event was the largest yet, joining customers, partners and open-source
contributors together. Announcements made at the summit included:
• An extended strategic alliance between Red Hat and AWS to
package access to AWS services within Red Hat OpenShift.
Red Hat and AWS announced an extended strategic alliance to natively
integrate access to AWS services into Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform. As a result, this extension will create unique offerings where
Red Hat will natively package AWS services like RDS/Aurora, Lambda,
Route 53 and elastic load balancing inside the OpenShift Container
Platform. OpenShift customers will be able to benefit from new AWS
services enabled by RHEL more rapidly and will be provided by a joint
support path backed by Red Hat and AWS.
• Expanded container-native storage for Red Hat OpenShift across
the hybrid cloud.
Red Hat announced a new container-native storage solution aimed
at extending the portability of containerised applications across the
hybrid cloud. The new solution offers consistent, software-defined
storage for stateful applications using Red Hat Gluster Storage with
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on AWS.
• End-to-End cloud-native development environment with Red Hat
OpenShift.io
Red Hat announced Red Hat OpenShift.io, a free, end to end cloud-
native development environment. Delivered as Software-as-a-Service,
Red Hat OpenShift.io enables digital transformation with a powerful
application environment to address all development phases without
requiring local resources.
• A new standard for trusted, enterprise-grade containers with
industry’s first container health index
Red Hat launched the industry’s first Container Health Index,
setting a new standard for enterprise-grade Linux containers. Based
upon Red Hat’s track record of delivering enterprise-grade open-
source technologies, the Container Health Index provides the most
comprehensive image detail of any enterprise container service.
• Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes to break down barriers
to building cloud-native microservices
Red Hat has introduced Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes.
OpenShift Application Runtimes provide microservices framework
support for popular runtimes on OpenShift, including Spring Boot,
Node.js, Vert.x and Eclipse MicroProfile, giving developers a prescriptive
development path that ultimately helps accelerate time-to-market.
The 14th annual Red Hat Summit will take place at the Moscone Center in
San Francisco, 8-10 May, 2018.
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