In less than a week, Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) located in Booth 202, will highlight exciting latest updates at the Red Hat Summit & AnsibleFest 2024 in Denver, CO, from May 6-9. At Red Hat Summit, where Microsoft is a platinum sponsor, Azure Red Hat OpenShift, celebrating its 5th anniversary on May 7th, will be showcased alongside Microsoft Red Hat products and services. In this blog, we will explore the significance of Azure Red Hat OpenShift in this esteemed event, provide an overview of what to expect at the summit, and fly over the capabilities.
Red Hat Summit 2024
The Red Hat Summit & AnsibleFest 2024 is a convergence of leading minds in open-source technologies, cloud computing, and automation solutions. It serves as a pivotal platform for industry leaders, developers, and IT (information technology) professionals to collaborate, learn, and network. Additionally, AnsibleFest brings open-source experts together to exchange ideas on how to create, manage, and scale automation in ways that best address your challenges.
Why Azure Red Hat OpenShift?
Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) stands out as a fully managed application platform, jointly engineered, managed, and supported by Microsoft and Red Hat. ARO seamlessly integrates the power of OpenShift with the scalability and flexibility of Azure, offering a robust cloud-native platform for developing, deploying, and managing applications. ARO streamlines operations, enhances security, and integrates seamlessly with Azure's vast array of services. Additionally, it brings the following key benefits:
- Streamlined Application Development: By offering a comprehensive application platform with integrated developer tools such as CI/CD, observability and Service Mesh. Azure Red Hat OpenShift streamlines the deployment of containerized applications, making it easier for organizations to manage their software stack efficiently and deploy applications quickly.
- Simplified Operations: ARO automates various operational tasks like scaling, monitoring, and resource allocation, reducing manual effort and enhancing operational efficiency. With ARO, you gain access to global SRE expertise that automates deployments and day-to-day operations, alleviating the burden on internal teams, simplifying operations, and allowing them to focus on more strategic activities.
- Enhanced Security: With built-in security features and robust access controls, ARO ensures that containerized applications and data are protected against threats.
- Consistent Scalability Everywhere: ARO provides seamless scalability across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, allowing organizations to scale their applications as needed without disruptions.
Azure Sets ARO Apart with Consistent Scalability and Managed Services
Azure plays a pivotal role in Azure Red Hat OpenShift due to its comprehensive suite of cloud services and infrastructure capabilities, providing a robust and scalable foundation for hosting OpenShift clusters. This ensures high availability and low-latency connectivity critical for modern applications requiring seamless performance across geographies. Moreover, Azure's integration with Azure Red Hat OpenShift simplifies hybrid cloud deployments, extending on-premises infrastructure seamlessly Deep integration also facilitates advanced capabilities like Microsoft Entra ID authentication (formerly Azure Active Directory), Azure Monitor for monitoring and logging, and Azure DevOps for CI/CD automation, enhancing development and operational efficiency.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift stands out as a fully managed platform covering infrastructure and daily operations, as validated by the Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study commissioned by Red Hat. This study highlights the cost savings and benefits realized by organizations leveraging Microsoft Azure Red Hat® OpenShift®.
The ARO platform is supported by a specialized global SRE (Site reliability engineering), team ensuring a 99.95% SLA. It offers enhanced security with automated patching and zero downtime upgrades. A key strength is its consistency across hybrid cloud environments, providing an initiative-taking platform for growth without interruptions. Beyond Kubernetes, ARO offers the ability to build pipelines, security, service mesh, and more, streamlining application development and deployment processes. ARO is accessible within the Azure console as a first-party service with on-demand billing, consistent support, integration with Azure services, expanded deployment regions, certifications, regulatory compliance, and cost management against Azure spend.
Now, let us dive into the key sessions and insights from Azure Red Hat OpenShift's participation at the Red Hat Summit & Ansible Fest 2024.
What is new and what is next with Red Hat OpenShift cloud services
Abstract: Discover the latest developments and upcoming trends in Red Hat OpenShift cloud services.
- Date & Time: Tuesday, May 7, 4:00 PM MDT
- Speakers: Brooke Jackson, Andrew Cathrow, Jerome Boutaud
- Session Type: Breakout (Room 605/60 MM7 - Street level)
Adobe’s Kubernetes Journey: From fragmented adoption to future foundation
Abstract: In this session, we will explore Adobe's 5-year Kubernetes journey from initial adoption to Ethos, its unified computing layer. We will delve into its role in platform engineering, covering various Kubernetes flavors on multiple clouds like Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and Red Hat OpenShift, including Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS.
- Date & Time: Tuesday, May 7, 1:30 PM MDT
- Room 201 - Street level
Abstract: Explore Goethe-Institut's journey transitioning from legacy systems to ARO for improved workload management and cloud adoption.
- Date & Time: Wednesday, May 8, 1:00 PM MDT
- Speakers: Robin Walter, Sascha Beutler, Immo Goltz
- Session Type: Breakout (Room 605/607 - Street level)
Securely operate and manage your RHEL and Red Hat OpenShift hybrid environments with Microsoft Azure
Abstract: Managing innovation, security, compliance, and cost in hybrid environments is a complex task for IT and DevOps teams. This session will demonstrate how Azure Arc manages on-premises environments efficiently, covering policy, configuration, updates, and security. We will also provide a preview of AI-driven operations using Microsoft Copilot for Azure in Red Hat setups.
- Date and Time: Wednesday, May 8, 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM MDT.
- Room 605/607 - Street level
- Speakers: Jane Yan, Ryan Willis, Satya Vel
Accelerating application development and deployment with Azure Red Hat OpenShift and Azure DevOps
Abstract: Learn how ARO and Azure DevOps accelerate application development and deployment with built-in DevOps services.
- Date & Time: Wednesday, May 8, 4:00 PM MDT
- Speakers: Jerome Boutaud, Courtney Grosch, Mayuri Gupta
- Session Type: Lightning talk (DevZone - Expo Hall)
Azure Red Hat Summit Demos
At our Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) demo booth, customers will experience a comprehensive showcase of ARO's capabilities. Demos include "ARO: Who does what?" for operational clarity and "Cost Management on ARO" for resource optimization. Other demos cover Integration with Azure Services, Hybrid Cloud Deployment, DevOps Automation, Scaling, Security, and Machine Learning Integration. These demos illustrate ARO's versatility in seamlessly integrating with Azure services, deploying hybrid cloud solutions, automating DevOps processes, scaling applications, monitoring performance, ensuring disaster recovery, maintaining security, and leveraging AI for intelligent applications.
Red Hat Central Demos
While at the Summit, be sure to visit the OpenShift booth to meet our Azure Red Hat OpenShift experts in person to ask questions and experience demos highlighting multi-cloud consistency, building AI enabled applications and integrating Azure tools such as Azure DevOps in Azure Red Hat OpenShift. And while you can find our Azure Red Hat OpenShift experts throughout the event, they will be at the OpenShift booth on Wednesday 9:30-11:30 to “Ask the Experts” anything.
The sessions at Red Hat Summit & AnsibleFest 2024 underscore the transformative impact of Azure Red Hat OpenShift and its integration with Microsoft Azure, Red Hat technologies, and automation solutions.
If you are planning to attend Red Hat Summit, be sure to join the sessions listed above, network with experts, and unlock new possibilities for innovation and automation at the Red Hat Summit & Ansible Fest 2024.
See you at the Summit!
Be on the lookout on May 2nd ARO news: How do You Operationalize Generative AI Consistently and Scale
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Additional Azure Red Hat OpenShift Resources:
- ARO spotlight: Total Economic Impact of OpenShift cloud services
- Ortec Finance customer video
- Campari Group customer story (published by IBM)
- ARO learning path: getting started with ARO
- ARO Interactive walkthrough
- Many demos on ARO lightboard video page
- Four benefits of Azure Red Hat OpenShift checklist