Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 is more versatile, scalable and secure

Red Hat, the provider of open source solutions, has announced Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3, bringing new developer features and deployment scalability on a secure enterprise container platform.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 offers a single platform delivering Linux container and container orchestration innovation, along with application development and deployment capabilities, in a hardened, enterprise-ready product. Red Hat contributes to both the Docker and Kubernetes projects and the latest version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provides an enterprise version of Kubernetes 1.3 and the Docker container runtime.

New features include:

• Continuous delivery pipelines based on the Jenkins Pipeline project 
• An aggregated developer dashboard that shows a unified view of application pipelines
• Improved platform scalability, supporting up to 1,000 nodes per computing cluster
• Kubernetes capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform can now proactively monitor for and prevent against resource starvation and unplanned downtime.

OpenShift includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and inherits all of its security features and ongoing updates. Security features extend to the Docker container runtime, which is integrated with Security Enhanced Linux for additional multi-tenant security, and to OpenShift’s integrated container registry, which allows administrators to manage their Docker-formatted container images and allows them to control access and image updates.

Additional registry enhancements have been added to OpenShift Container Platform 3.3, spanning users, teams and their projects, including the ability to view image details and manage access to images. OpenShift also provides integrated user authorization and roles-based access controls for Kubernetes that integrate with enterprise LDAP-systems, as well as integrated security policies for container execution, so administrators can control user user access, permissions, quotas and access to pull and run container images all in one place.

Red Hat’s expanded container portfolio spans private and fully managed public cloud offerings. These infrastructure environments include Red Hat OpenShift Container Local, included in the Red Hat Container Developer Kit, Red Hat OpenShift Container Lab, OpenShift Online and OpenShift Dedicated.

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Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 is available for customer download from September 27, 2016. The OpenShift Online and OpenShift Dedicated platforms are scheduled for update shortly following the availability of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3.