Microsoft and Red Hat expand partnership around hybrid cloud, container management and developer productivity.
Microsoft and Red Hat expanded their alliance to empower enterprise developers to run container-based applications across Microsoft Azure and on-premises. With this collaboration, the companies will introduce the first jointly managed OpenShift offering in the public cloud, combining the power of Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform, and Azure, Microsoft’s public cloud.
"Gartner predicts that, by 2020, more than 50 per cent of global organisations will be running containerised applications in production, up from less than 20 per cent today."
With organisations turning to containerised applications and Kubernetes to drive digital transformation and help address customer, competitive, and market demands, they need solutions to easily orchestrate and manage these applications, across the public cloud and on-premises. Red Hat OpenShift on Azure will be jointly engineered and designed to reduce the complexity of container management for customers. As the companies’ preferred offering for hybrid container workflows for our joint customers, Red Hat and Microsoft will jointly manage the solution for customers, with support from both companies.
In addition to being a fully managed service, Red Hat OpenShift on Azure promises to bring enterprise developers:
Flexibility: Freely move applications between on-premises environments and Azure using OpenShift, which offers a consistent container platform across the hybrid cloud.
Speed: Connect faster, and with enhanced security, between Azure and on-premises OpenShift clusters with hybrid networking.
Productivity: Access Azure services like Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure SQL DB, making developers more productive.
When customers choose Red Hat OpenShift on Azure, they will receive a managed service backed by operations and support services from both companies. Support extends across their containerised applications, operating systems, infrastructure and the orchestrator. Further, Red Hat’s and Microsoft’s sales organisations will work together to bring the companies’ extensive technology platforms to customers, equipping them to build more cloud-native applications and modernise existing applications.
Customers can more easily move their applications between on-premises environments and Microsoft Azure because they are leveraging a consistent container platform in OpenShift across both footprints of the hybrid cloud.
The expanded collaboration between Microsoft and Red Hat will also include:
Red Hat OpenShift on Azure is anticipated to be available in preview in the coming months. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure and Azure Stack are currently available.