The Google Cloud Platform now supports OpenShift Window Containers
Contain those traditional applications
Red Hat OpenShift Window Containers will be a crucial component of your solution whether you want to accelerate your public and private cloud strategy, lower your infrastructure and maintenance costs, improve application portability, or most likely all of the above.
We are all aware of Windows Server’s substantial market share in the server operating system space, thus there is a huge opportunity to hasten client adoption of Windows Server apps for the public cloud using containers. OpenShift Window Containers eliminate the requirement for a whole virtual machine. Instead, because containers are compact and light, they offer greater density and facilitate migration between bare metal platforms, and public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
Of course, you need a setting in which to coordinate, oversee, and manage all of these brand-new Windows Containers, and that’s where OpenShift comes in. OpenShift is a unified platform for developing, modernizing, and deploying applications at scale, as is common knowledge. To lessen the complexity of creating, deploying, running, and managing applications on Kubernetes, it incorporates tried-and-true services. With a full suite of services for releasing apps on the infrastructure of your choosing, work more efficiently and quickly. Teams may concentrate on important tasks with the aid of OpenShift.
Use cases to target
You have a choice of numerous different routes to upgrade your Windows programs. You could move your programs to virtual machines and rehost lifting. You could redesign by choosing to adopt. Using OpenShift-based Red Hat Enterprise Linux containers. You might even decide to rebuild, deploying cloud-native applications in Linux Containers to OpenShift.
But for Windows applications running on OpenShift, the sweet spot is between rehost and rearchitect. Refactoring is the term used in the industry to describe the process of containerizing and running conventional. Apps are written in the.NET framework that runs in Windows Server Containers and is deployed to Windows compute nodes using OpenShift. This route allows you to take advantage of containerization and OpenShift’s full benefits faster and with less work than a complete rearchitect or rebuild.
Naturally, the strategy you choose will depend on your particular circumstances, but having Windows computing nodes under OpenShift management gives you another tool in your quiver to help you find the answer that you and your company need.
Windows Machine Config Operator (WMCO)
Customers of OpenShift can run Windows workloads on their clusters by using the Windows Machine Config Operator (WMCO). With the help of this functionality, a cluster administrator can schedule Windows workloads by adding a Windows compute node as a day 2 operation to an OpenShift cluster that has been provisioned by an installer. An OpenShift cluster set up with hybrid OVN Kubernetes networking is required.
Introducing our new platform – GCP
We’ve kept you waiting long enough; let’s talk about WMCO’s upcoming release and what to anticipate. The 7.0.0 version, which adds support for running on the Google Cloud Platform, will be out shortly after OpenShift 4.12 is released. Now that Windows Containers can run in OpenShift environments on all the main cloud platforms, you can benefit from this feature. Run where it makes sense to run, on the platform that is the greatest option for you, and avoid vendor lock-in.
We will support Windows Server 2022 with the Windows KB5012637 patch in accordance with the table below.
Platforms |
Windows Server Versions |
Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Windows Server 2019 (version 1809) |
Microsoft Azure | Windows Server 2019 (version 1809)
Windows Server 2022 with the Windows KB5012637 patch. |
VMware vSphere | Windows Server 2022 with the Windows KB5012637 patch. |
Bare-metal or provider agnostic | Windows Server 2019 (version 1809)
Windows Server 2022 with the Windows KB5012637 patch. |
Google GCP | Windows Server 2022 with the Windows KB5012637 patch. |