Today we’re happy to announce the final 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 clients to run their containerized workloads in manufacturing.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) on Azure Government permits compliance with strict authorities rules and certifications, equivalent to FedRAMP and CJIS, which makes it a safe and compliant possibility for working containerized workloads at manufacturing scale. Agencies can benefit from the stringent safety and compliance options of Azure Government and leverage the pliability and scalability of OpenShift.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift for Azure Government contains 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 kinds.
- Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS).
As a managed service, Azure Red Hat OpenShift additionally presents a number of advantages for companies trying to innovate, together with:
- Scalability: OpenShift gives automated scaling, self-healing, and rolling updates, which assist to make sure that functions can deal with elevated masses and get well from failures shortly.
- Flexibility: OpenShift permits builders to make use of their most popular languages, frameworks, and instruments to construct and deploy containerized functions, making it straightforward to work with current functions and applied sciences.
- Enterprise-grade administration: OpenShift gives 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 functions.
- Interoperability: Azure Red Hat OpenShift runs on high of Azure and integrates with different Azure providers, equivalent to Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Virtual Network, making it straightforward to construct and deploy functions that leverage the total vary of Azure providers.
- Support: Azure Red Hat OpenShift is a collectively managed product, which implies that it’s supported by each Microsoft and Red Hat, offering clients with entry to the experience and sources of each firms.
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 dimensions of Microsoft Azure.