PaaS is Evolving with Red Hat’s New OpenShift Enterprise 3

Red Hat recently announced the general availability of OpenShift Enterprise 3 (OSE3), the next-generation of Red Hat's award-winning Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. OSE3 is the first enterprise-ready web-scale container application platform based on Docker format Linux containers, Kubernetes orchestration and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to provide full support from the operating system to application runtimes. OSE3 helps organizations accelerate application development and delivery by enabling development and operations teams to be more agile, responsive, and efficient.

OSE3 delivers a container-based application platform based on Docker and powered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux, providing a secure, effective and portable way to develop, deploy, and run application services. This also provides OpenShift users with access to the broadest ecosystem of packaged application components, combined with the security and trust delivered by Red Hat’s Container Certification Program. To orchestrate enterprise applications that typically span multiple containers and hosts, OSE3 also includes Kubernetes, a powerful, web-scale, open source, container orchestration and management engine developed with Google.

Above this core container infrastructure platform, OSE3 adds a wide selection of tools for developers to create and collaborate on application projects, utilizing web, command line, or integrated development environment interfaces. Developers can push their application code directly from GIT and automate the Docker image build process using OpenShift’s innovative source-to-image build capabilities. Developers can also manage application deployments and rollbacks and integrate with their existing development and continuous integration tools. OSE3 also includes enterprise middleware services from the Red Hat JBoss Middleware portfolio including application container services with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Web Server (Tomcat) and messaging services with Red Hat JBoss A-MQ.

As organizations are expanding their adoption of container-based application delivery solutions, they need the capacity to deploy, run, and manage their applications more proficiently and consistently. This shift towards containerized applications and immutable infrastructure enables organizations to easily deploy new microservices-based applications architectures, while also managing their existing applications across physical, virtual, private and public cloud environments. OSE3 delivers powerful and fully supported container-based development and deployment platform for managing these applications across the lifecycle.