Red Hat is Creeping Towards the Edge With New OpenShift

The new version of OpenShift, the Kubernetes platform from open source player Red Hat, focuses on the ‘edge’. Automation and a lighter footprint should make this possible.

Red Hat’s OpenShift platform is now in version 4.5 and continues in the direction the company announced in the spring. That means virtualization and automation, using its own Kubernetes-based hybrid cloud.

The intention is that companies can use the system to run workloads in the ‘edge’, outside their own data centre.

Consider, for example, industrial environments in which AI and machine learning applications have to function far outside the head office.

Red Hat also comes with some other enhancements in this version of OpenShift, including support for full-stack VMware vSphere environments and OpenShift Virtualization.

It allows you to develop and manage virtual machines in addition to the Kubernetes containers that OpenShift already supports.