Today we’re happy to announce the overall availability of Azure Red Hat OpenShift on Microsoft Azure Government. With this launch, we’re combining world-class Azure infrastructure with a number one enterprise Kubernetes platform as a collectively operated and supported service for Azure Government prospects to run their containerized workloads in manufacturing.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) on Azure Government allows compliance with strict authorities laws and certifications, comparable to FedRAMP and CJIS, which makes it a safe and compliant possibility for operating containerized workloads at manufacturing scale. Agencies can reap the benefits of the stringent safety and compliance options of Azure Government and leverage the flexibleness and scalability of OpenShift.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift for Azure Government consists of key IT safety and regulatory certifications, together with:
- FedRAMP High Authorization.
- International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS).
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 1075 varieties.
- Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS).
As a managed service, Azure Red Hat OpenShift additionally provides a number of advantages for businesses trying to innovate, together with:
- Scalability: OpenShift offers automated scaling, self-healing, and rolling updates, which assist to make sure that purposes can deal with elevated masses and get well from failures rapidly.
- Flexibility: OpenShift permits builders to make use of their most well-liked languages, frameworks, and instruments to construct and deploy containerized purposes, making it straightforward to work with current purposes and applied sciences.
- Enterprise-grade administration: OpenShift offers a centralized administration console, role-based entry management, and built-in monitoring and logging, making it straightforward for IT groups to handle and troubleshoot containerized purposes.
- Interoperability: Azure Red Hat OpenShift runs on high of Azure and integrates with different Azure companies, comparable to Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Virtual Network, making it straightforward to construct and deploy purposes that leverage the complete vary of Azure companies.
- Support: Azure Red Hat OpenShift is a collectively managed product, which implies that it’s supported by each Microsoft and Red Hat, offering prospects with entry to the experience and assets of each corporations.
Launched in 2019, Azure Red Hat OpenShift was the primary codeveloped, collectively operated Red Hat OpenShift service on the general public cloud, providing a strong on-ramp to the hybrid cloud by extending the identical enterprise-grade Kubernetes utilized in non-public datacenters to the size of Microsoft Azure.