Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine can run on on-premises hardware that supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux and on bare metal cloud services including AWS bare metal instances. To ease migration, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine includes access to Red Hat’s intuitive migration tool—the migration toolkit for virtualization—that assists in transitioning from other virtualization platforms. To unify virtual machine management at scale and limit sprawl, Red Hat is also introducing Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization. A new edition of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, it provides focused access to Advanced Cluster Management’s existing features designed to centralize VM lifecycle management
Red Hat Connectivity Link, meanwhile, integrates traffic management, policy enforcement, and role-based access directly with Kubernetes, to enhance security and compliance across layers of application infrastructure, Red Hat said. Application development and platform engineering teams can manage application connectivity across single- and multi-cluster Kubernetes environments. Red Hat Connectivity Link can reduce complexity by consolidating functions such as traffic routing, security, and policy management functions into a single Kubernetes-native solution.
According to Red Hat, the adoption of cloud-native architectures, containers, and Kubernetes has fostered an “explosion” of applications, services, and endpoints. In turn, this has increased the need for and challenges of configuring and governing connections between these components. Applications can span Kubernetes clusters, data centers, and cloud providers.
