Red Hat OpenShift 4.20, the latest version of the Kubernetes-powered hybrid cloud application platform, is now generally available as announced by the leader in open source solutions.
As organizations face increasing complexity and expanding regulatory requirements, “They need a more consistent and reliable platform to interconnect diverse applications and services across their IT infrastructure”commented from Red Hat in the version announcement. There is also a growing need for capabilities that support digital sovereignty, requiring organizations to “maintain extensive control over your cloud destiny, deciding precisely which applications and data should run internally and which exist outside that domain”.
Red Hat OpenShift 4.20, novedades
To this end, Red Hat OpenShift 4.20 introduces capabilities to accelerate AI workloads, strengthen core platform security, and consistently improve virtualization strategies from the data center to public clouds and the edge.
The new version provides a unified and more efficient basebuilt with systems security top of mind, enabling sovereign deployments and accelerating the development and deployment of AI applications and workloads in hybrid cloud environments.
OpenShift 4.20 significantly strengthens the position of platform securityaddressing both today’s immediate threats and the complex, evolving security needs of enterprise IT. It also brings greater operational flexibility to the core platform and strengthens security capabilities for Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus customers.
New features focused on control and identity include:
- Flexibility and control in identity management: Bring-your-own OpenID Connect (OIDC) allows customers to use their existing OpenID Connect (OIDC) infrastructure, providing greater control over user data.
- Significantly lower-cost mTLS pod-to-pod encryption, identity-based traffic policies, observability, and more by using Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh’s sidecar-free environment, helping reduce infrastructure costs, operational complexity, and resource overhead.
- Simplifying external secrets management with a cluster-level service: The External Secrets Operator (ESO) provides lifecycle management for secrets obtained from external secrets management systems, helping to improve security.
- Reduced infrastructure costs with high availability in smaller environments: Two-node OpenShift with arbiter enables a new high availability form factor, reducing infrastructure costs without sacrificing resiliency.
- Improve network integration and performance for on-premises deployments: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) in OVN-Kubernetes brings new networking capabilities to on-premises environments by providing seamless path exchange between OpenShift and external network fabrics, meaning faster adaptation to network changes, VM migration, or failover events.
Red Hat OpenShift 4.20 is now generally available. More information, including how to update to the latest version, is available at this web link.
