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  • Red Hat launches platform to support Docker, Kubernetes and enterprise-grade containerization

    Red Hat launches platform to support Docker, Kubernetes and enterprise-grade containerization

    Red Hat continued its momentum to capture a piece of the containerization market last week with the official launch of its new Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host operating system. According to Red Hat executives, this is a natural progression in the Red Hat ecosystem as more of the company’s customers embrace Docker and other containerization technologies.

    “Today, with the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host, we are doing the same for Linux containers, bridging innovative open technology with the stability and security required by the enterprise,” said Jim Totton, vice president and general manager of the platforms business unit at Red Hat. “More than just an addition to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux portfolio, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host showcases the future of the enterprise application, a powerful, flexible application greater than the sum of its parts, and entirely fueled by the power of open innovation.”

     

    –THIS STORY HAS BEEN MOVED TO CONTAINER JOURNAL–

  • The role of middleware in DevOps

    The role of middleware in DevOps

    Middleware has a very important and strategic role in DevOps, according to Ben Henshall, middleware business unit manager at Red Hat Australia and New Zealand. ‘Rapid everything’ is part of DevOps culture, so the bloated, proprietary middleware with roots in the late 1990s and early 2000s – the pre-cloud era – is a poor fit.

    He pointed to an unnamed government organization that is limited to two major code releases per year, largely because of the complexity of its middleware and associated processes, which means systems have to be brought down completely for a weekend to deploy the updates.

    This is in stark contrast with current thinking, and Henshall pointed to the frequently-cited 2009 presentation by John Allspaw and Paul Hammond http://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/10-deploys-per-day-dev-and-ops-cooperation-at-flickr that described how Flickr managed 10 full deployments during a typical day.

    Modern middleware is designed with cloud deployments in mind, including a multitenant architecture and a small resource footprint that minimizes infrastructure requirements. The best examples are based on Open Source projects with many contributors and extensive testing, and are developed and tested in the cloud, said Henshall, presumably with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Middleware in mind.

    It may be necessary to re-architect applications in order to decouple them from old-school middleware so a more modern replacement can be used, but technologies such as containerization can simplify the task, he suggested. While the right middleware and the adoption of Platform as a Service (PaaS) help – along with technologies such as OSGi (Open Service Gateway Initiative, which allows updated Java code to be deployed without stopping and restarting a system, among other things) as implemented in Apache Karaf (which is part of Red Hat JBoss) – but it is important to design applications so they can be maintained without outages, he said.

    PaaS has seen a rapid rise in popularity as it makes it easier for developers to build and test new logic, and for operations staff to manage multiple systems without customization and with the benefits of automated releases. For example, Cisco has released more than 240 applications in around 12 months by using Red Hat OpenShift PaaS, said Henshall, noting that it can run on premises or be consumed as a service run by Red Hat.

    The automation provided by PaaS fits in with the operations goal of running stable, reliable and secure systems, while reducing the need for “operations ninjas” who are potential single points of failure in the event of illness or resignation.

    Henshall said OpenShift customers include a tertiary education institution that adopted OpenShift to speed the development and deployment of new applications and can now provision new systems within minutes, a software vendor that has reduced the time to market for new initiatives, and a major Commonwealth Government department that has been able to meet internal requirements concerning security, supportability and risk reduction since adopting the PaaS.

    Being able to support innovation in the shortest time and with the least risk “is such a huge thing” for organizations, he said, especially when it can be combined with dramatic costs reductions and easier compliance.

    Vendors such as Red Had provide products and services to support the DevOps culture, he said, noting “our software is developed by people facing these issues.”

    About the Author/Stephen Withers

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    Stephen Withers is one of Australia¹s most experienced IT journalists, covering everything from gadgets to enterprise systems. In previous lives he has been an academic, a systems programmer, an IT support manager, and an online services manager. Stephen holds an honours degree in Management Sciences, a PhD in Industrial and Business Studies, and is a senior member of the Australian Computer Society. You can see his Linkedin profile here: http://au.linkedin.com/pub/stephen-withers/0/222/687/

  • Docker is red hot at Red Hat

    The news from the Red Hat Summit this weeks almost appears to be all Docker all the time.  A series of announcements has made Docker clearly the container of choice for Red Hat users. But don’t stop at just Red Hat. Docker has pretty much locked down all of the major Linux distros including Amazon’s AWS Linux version with more on the way. More on this on Network World here.

    Here is a recap of the news:

    http://blog.docker.io/2014/04/docker-red-hat-even-more-goodness/

    • Expansion of RHEL 7.0 Beta to include Docker container technologies.  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is currently in beta and is targeted to be a Red Hat certified container host, with Docker as a primary supported container format;

    • Docker Integration with OpenShift PaaS.  Application containers in OpenShift will be integrated with Docker and support Red Hat certified ISV applications packaged in the Docker container format. These same containerized applications will also be supported on other Red Hat products;

    • Red Hat Certification.  As revealed last month, Red Hat is launching certification of applications delivered in the Docker container format – Dockerize All The Things!

    • One More Thing.  Finally, in addition to the above, for enterprise IT orgs conducting projects with Docker and Red Hat, Docker, Inc. has developed additional service offerings, including developer support and a JumpStart program.

  • Red Hat Announces Certification for Containerized Applications, Extends Customer Confidence and Trust to the Cloud

    Red Hat Container Certification delivers secure, consistent and simplified platform for ISVs to take advantage of containers in Docker format

    RALEIGH, N.C., Mar 11, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Red Hat, Inc. RHT -0.84% , the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the extension of its application certification program to include containerized applications. The Red Hat Container Certification ensures that application containers built using Red Hat Enterprise Linux will operate seamlessly across certified container hosts. Designed with the needs of independent software vendors (ISVs), service providers and their enterprise customers in mind, the certification extends the confidence customers have with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which currently supports thousands of certified applications, to certified containers running on certified container hosts. The pending release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat’s OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering will both be certified container hosts, with Docker as a primary supported container format.

    Linux Containers

    Linux Containers have emerged as a key open source application packaging and delivery technology, combining lightweight application isolation with the flexibility of image-based deployment methods. Developers have rapidly embraced Linux Containers because they simplify and accelerate application deployment, while many PaaS platforms are built around Linux container technology, including OpenShift by Red Hat. Red Hat Enterprise Linux implements Linux Containers using core technologies such as Control Groups (cGroups), Resource Management, SELinux, and network namespaces, enabling secure multi-tenancy and reducing the potential for security exploits.

    Building on the capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, application containers are deployed as software packages that include the application and all of its required runtime components. Benefits include:

    • Instant portability , deploy the certified application container across any certified container host
    • Minimal footprint , avoid the overhead of virtual machine images which include a complete operating system
    • Simplified maintenance , reduce the effort and risk by patching applications along with all of their dependencies
    • Lowered development costs , develop, test and certify applications against a single runtime environment

    Red Hat Container Certification

    The Red Hat Container Certification is the latest addition to Red Hat’s industry-leading certification portfolio that includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. The certification is also part of a larger set of Red Hat technology initiatives which in turn support thousands of third party technology partners within Red Hat’s global ecosystem

    To support this newly announced container certification, Red Hat is also announcing the container certification Partner Early Access Program (PEAP). The PEAP will run through late spring and provide the ability for ecosystem partners to participate in early testing, integration and feedback of the tools and resources required for containerization prior to the official launch of the certification and partner program, currently planned for mid-2014. Beginning today, companies interested in being part of the PEAP can learn more by visiting https://engage.redhat.com/content/enterprise-early-access-se-201402101640.

    Supporting Quotes

    Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat

    “Twelve years ago, Red Hat shook up the enterprise status quo with the introduction of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a safe, consistent Linux platform for the ISV ecosystem. Today, the trust that ISVs place in Red Hat Enterprise Linux can extend to containerized applications with the Red Hat Container Certification, ensuring that containers built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux will work as intended across certified hosts, delivering expanded application flexibility, lowered costs and simplified maintenance, all backed by the support and expertise expected from Red Hat.”

    Ben Golub, CEO, Docker

    “As the de facto standard in open source container technology, we are pleased to see Red Hat embracing the container movement as a means of application efficiency and consistency across computing footprints. By offering a container certification on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Docker, Red Hat is providing the industry’s only standardized, stable platform for commercial container workloads, providing a safe, reliable way to deliver the enterprise applications of the future.”

    Matt Asay, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, MongoDB

    “Consistent with its mission of high value and affordability, Red Hat continues this trend through a supported platform that enables consistent enterprise-grade application deployment. We’re excited to work with Red Hat to provide customers a seamless database environment that is consistent from development to deployment, regardless of where it resides within the open hybrid cloud.”

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    About Red Hat, Inc.

    Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As the connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com .

    Forward-Looking Statements

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    SOURCE: Red Hat, Inc.

    Red Hat, Inc.John Terrill, 571-421-8132 jterrill@redhat.com

    Copyright Business Wire 2014

  • Azul Systems Zing Now Certified With Red Hat JBoss Data Grid

    Zing and JBoss Data Grid Deliver Consistent Performance for Best-in-Class In-Memory Solutions

    “By adding Zing to a JBoss Data Grid deployment, DevOps teams will require far less application and JVM tuning to achieve optimal results.”

    SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwired – Feb 11, 2014) – O’REILLY STRATA CONFERENCE — Azul Systems®, Inc. (Azul), the award-winning leader in Java runtime scalability, announced today that Azul’s Zing runtime for Java is now certified and fully supported with Red Hat JBoss Data Grid. Ideal for JBoss Data Grid deployments leveraging larger data nodes in transactional Big Data implementations, Azul’s Zing allows organizations to accelerate time to market, improve application runtime consistency and deliver higher sustained throughput for their JBoss Data Grid-based implementations.

    By deploying Red Hat JBoss Data Grid and Azul’s Zing together in business-critical use cases, organizations can scale up (into servers with larger memory configurations) or out as required, without sacrificing performance. JBoss Data Grid provides fast, in-memory data access and elastic scale out, while Zing eliminates all JVM-based performance hiccups, drastically reducing peak latencies and providing unprecedented response time consistency. The combined solution is especially attractive for organizations looking to scale up memory heap sizes or store large in-memory datasets on fewer nodes while delivering predictable application performance.

    Azul’s Zing is designed for enterprise Java applications and workloads that require any combination of large memory, high transaction rates, low latency, consistent human-scale response times or high sustained throughput. Zing provides the following benefits for enterprises implementing JBoss Data Grid:

    • Simpler deployment topology: Zing enables operational simplicity for heap sizes of hundreds of gigabytes per node. This reduces the number of nodes required to store massive data volumes and makes maintenance easier.
    • Consistent response times and SLA compliance: Zing, with Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, has been proven to deliver consistent, low response times in the order of tens of milliseconds at the 99.999% percentile, even with node sizes exceeding 300 GB.
    • Faster time to market: By adding Zing to a JBoss Data Grid deployment, DevOps teams will require far less application and JVM tuning to achieve optimal results.

    “Zing is ideal for Red Hat JBoss Data Grid customers who are looking to scale up memory heap sizes and store large datasets on fewer nodes while still achieving very predictable response time performance,” noted Mike Piech, general manager, Middleware, Red Hat.

    “By combining Red Hat JBoss Data Grid with Azul’s Zing, Java-based businesses realize a significant competitive advantage,” said Scott Sellers, president and CEO of Azul Systems. “Now enterprises can deploy business-critical Java applications requiring large in-memory data sets, consistent real-time performance and scalability in a cost-effective and operational friendly manner.”

    Additional information and benchmark results highlighting the benefits of Red Hat JBoss Data Grid and Zing can be downloaded here:http://www.azulsystems.com/partners/jboss_data_grid_performance_brief_pdf
    More information about JBoss Data Grid is available at http://www.redhat.com/products/jbossenterprisemiddleware/data-grid/
    Further information about Zing is available at www.azulsystems.com/products/zing.

    About Azul Systems

    Azul Systems (Azul) is an award-winning provider of Java for the enterprise. Based in Sunnyvale, CA, Azul has been delivering Java solutions for more than 10 years. The company has deep domain knowledge in Java runtimes, low-latency applications, elastic memory, Pauseless Java Garbage Collection and runtime resource monitoring. Azul is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Java Community Process (JCP.) Azul’s enterprise products enable organizations to simplify their Java-based operations while achieving lower peak latencies, improved scalability and throughput, greater response time consistency and dramatically improved development and operating costs. For additional information, visit: http://www.azulsystems.com.