Use Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.10 to Manage Cloud Data
Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.10, Your clusters’ actual data is the lifeblood of your applications. Your whole infrastructure is dependent on the movement, veracity, and management of data as it travels through your systems and services.
We’ve added new capabilities and features to Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF), the open-source data component of Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, with the release of version 4.10 of ODF today.
Here’s a quick rundown of what ODF is and how you can access it, in case you’re new to our storage products. Red Hat Ceph Storage, Rook, and Multicloud Object Gateway make up the Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation. The solution is made up of a number of open-source software components.
Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation is a cluster data management solution for Red Hat OpenShift that offers higher-level data services and persistent storage. ODF is a foundational data layer that allows programs to function and interact with data in a more straightforward, consistent, and scalable way. Smart features for handling object data and disaster recovery are also included. Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation Essentials is included in the Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation Essentials edition.
Under the hood, ODF supports a variety of intriguing and unique workloads and features that can improve data layer reliability, speed, and even cost reductions. ODF, for example, can take advantage of Red Hat Ceph Storage, which lets a single storage cluster serve as an object store, a block store, and a file system all at once. ODF’s open-source nature means that it can be used in both public clouds and private data centers. You can also stack your clusters on top of your existing storage systems or build them out of heterogeneous commodity equipment. Of course, both at rest and in transit, everything can be encrypted.
What’s New this Time?
We’ve incorporated new features and fixes to make your life as an administrator easier with this new release. And as a systems administrator, knowing you have options when it comes to catastrophe recovery makes it easier to sleep at night. To that aim, we’ve incorporated regional disaster recovery, as well as automated block volume protection. Individual blocks can now be recovered at the local level, and recovery times are currently measured in minutes.
If a single data center fails, you may now run asynchronous disaster recovery activities.
As part of this release, we’re also introducing a new Multicloud Object Gateway feature. This feature allows data to be shared across cloud-native applications that use S3 compatible APIs and legacy applications that use file access.
File systems, for example, are used by legacy applications to transfer data collections. The new “namespace on top of filesystem” (NS FS) capabilities in Multicloud Object Gateway allows cloud-native apps that use object storage to access this data.
Other Enhancements Include:
Support for Amazon AWS gp3/gp2 for storage resourcing
Customers can choose from a variety of easy solutions based on their demands and budget.
Single Node Solution for Edge Use Cases with Radio Access Network (RAN) [Technology Preview]
Provides a solution for edge use cases employing Single Node OpenShift clusters, which have the capacity to run on a very tiny resource footprint.
OpenShift APIs for Data Protection, OADP operator v1.0
Customers can use their existing data center backup solutions to backup and restore namespaces in OpenShift applications.
UI for tainted dedicated nodes
Assurance that, in the event of a node failure, OpenShift Data Foundation containers will not become unscheduled.
Dedicated storage nodes can be created fairly quickly.
Update on the console’s performance card
More information that is both instructive and intuitive
Ability to monitor and alert on issues in a timely and proactive manner.
Encryption across the cluster, and a service account for KMS authentication
The ability to adhere to security best practices by allowing access tokens to expire.
Hyper Protect Crypto Services KMS connection with IBM Cloud Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Service for encryption at rest.
Ability to use current Red Hat OpenShift facilities on IBM Cloud & Satellite with ease.
The Future’s Foundation
We’ll be working on a variety of methods to improve ODF in the future months and years, but for now, we’re happy to be bringing in new clients as a result of it. The Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus now includes us. Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation Essentials is a free data management add-on for Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus.
Customers who seek more advanced disaster recovery or extensive encryption capabilities should upgrade to Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation Advanced.
The fundamental nature of open source means that the more people who use it, the more ideas and creativity we can collectively contribute to it. ODF will continue to grow and expand with your help.
