Red Hat Boosts Performance and Scale for
Cloud-Native Application Development with Latest Portfolio Updates
Latest releases empower organizations to develop and deploy applications
faster across hybrid multicloud environments.
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions,
today unveiled updates across its portfolio of developer tools designed to
help organizations build and deliver applications faster and more consistently
across Kubernetes-based hybrid and multicloud environments.
Industry analyst firm IDC predicts that the percentage of large
organizations that deploy code to production daily will increase from
5% in 2021 to 70% in 2025 as a result of widespread implementation of
mature DevOps practices. Furthermore, as traditional DevOps automation and
processes are disrupted by Kubernetes and cloud-native development, the firm
estimates that by 2024, 35% of DevOps adopters will embrace more
streamlined GitOps automation processes.1
To help customers keep pace with these changes, Red Hat is delivering
new capabilities that further take advantage of Git, an open source version
control system, to simplify development and deployment across hybrid multicloud
environments. The latest release of Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines introduces a
technology preview of pipelines as code for Tekton, which gives customers the
ability to define and manage their continuous integration (CI) pipelines
through Git repositories and take advantage of GitOps workflows to bring
greater repeatability, visibility and consistency to the application lifecycle.
With new Tekton Chains, OpenShift Pipelines now provides built-in image signing capabilities
that help to enhance reliability in the application delivery supply chain.
Developers can also take advantage of user namespaces in pipelines to isolate
tools that require root privileges, and run them as non-root inside their
application build and delivery pipelines without compromising on security
functionality.
Using OpenShift GitOps, customers can declaratively manage their OpenShift clusters,
applications and compliance operations, using familiar Git workflows to
automate, define and version security practices in an easily auditable environment.
The latest release includes Argo CD 2.3, bringing new sync and diff strategies,
UI improvements, and performance enhancements. ApplicationSets, which was
previously available as a technology preview, is now generally available
providing a fully supported and stable way to automate management of
multiple ArgoCD applications across multiple clusters. ApplicationSets is
also now fully integrated with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management.
Accelerate time-to-code with next-generation development environments
Red Hat also unveiled its next-generation in-browser and local development
environments, Red Hat OpenShift DevSpaces 3 (formerly Red Hat CodeReady
Workspaces) and Red Hat OpenShift Local 2 (formerly Red Hat CodeReady
Containers), the next generation of its in-browser and local development
environments for Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform.
OpenShift Dev Spaces uses OpenShift and containers to provide
development or IT teams with a consistent and zero-configuration development
environment that is built to support security needs. OpenShift Dev
Spaces 3 builds on the work done through CodeReady Workspaces, providing:
- A new DevWorkspace
engine replaces the Java REST service from CodeReady Workspaces with a
Kubernetes controller that runs behind the kube-apiserver, offering greater
scalability and high availability..
- A universal API, provided a
Kubernetes-native DevWorkspace CRD, better aligns with typical resource
management used in Kubernetes environments. A simpler design is
achieved by decoupling the workspace engine from the developer’s IDE and
server-side components of the OpenShift Dev Spaces service.
OpenShift Local offers one of the quickest ways to get
started building OpenShift clusters. Designed to run on a local computer, the
tool simplifies setup and testing and gives developers the ability to emulate
the cloud development environment locally with all the tools needed to develop
container-based applications. OpenShift Local 2 builds on the work
done through CodeReady Containers with new features and
enhancements, such as:
- Presets, which enable
developers to select either the default local OpenShift bundle or Podman if they want
to start with a more focused container runtime to help minimize development
setup.
- Slimmer binaries resulting
from a decoupling of the OpenShift machine bundle from the command-line tool
download. This not only results in smaller bundles when using tools like
Podman, but also gives developers greater flexibility to choose alternate
bundles that better fit their specific project.
- A new system tray delivers more
consistency and capability across different operating systems by giving users
the ability to quickly view and manage the status of a machine, open the
OpenShift console, change the configuration or access version information.
Red Hat has made enhancements to a number of other important areas in
the developer portfolio:
- Docker Desktop now includes a new
extension, available as a developer preview, that enables users to deploy a
container image to OpenShift.
- Shipwright, the open source
extensible framework for building container images for Kubernetes, now offers
volume support, a greater range of options for customization, and the ability
for users to build images from the local directory.
- Knative/Serverless
Functions tooling enables developers working in VS Code or IntelliJ to view and
deploy serverless applications from within the development environment.
- odo 3.0, a CLI tool for
developers writing and deploying applications on OpenShift and Kubernetes,
received a major update focused on guided on-boarding, the outer loop
development experience, and devfile adoption for consistency across the
portfolio.
- Devfile is now a
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project. The Kubernetes-native
API is used to define containerized development environments and has been
adopted for us in odo, OpenShift Web Console, OpenShift Dev Spaces and various
IDE plugins.
Supporting Quotes
Mithun Dhar, vice president and general manager, Developer Tools and Programs,
Red Hat
“For developers on the front lines of business transformation today,
speed, agility, scale and performance are of utmost importance. As the pace of
innovation accelerates, developers not only face increasing pressure to deliver
new applications and services to market faster, they also have to update and
maintain existing applications. In some cases, this means deploying new code
multiple times each day. We want to make it as easy as possible for developers
to meet these challenges with tools and capabilities that help them work more
efficiently and productively.”
Al Gillen, group VP, Software Development and Open Source, IDC
"Developers and DevOps professionals continue to be in the hot seat
as their organizations or their customers demand that convenient and
user-friendly solutions be created and deployed at an even faster rate. We see
the industry on the edge of gaining some fascinating new tools that will help
accelerate both development and deployment in the years to come, reducing at
least some of the pressure to generate more applications more quickly."
Source: RedHat media announcement