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Red Hat OpenShift Presses Outward to the Edge, Enhances Developer Experienc

Honeycomb sponsored The New Stack’s coverage of KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2020. While Red Hat officially launched OpenShift 4.6 in late October, the company has introduced a number of new features around its managed Kubernetes offering just in time for this week’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, including updates around serverless, its Quarkus Kubernetes native Java stack, long-term support, and the ability to run remote workloads without requiring Kubernetes.

Red Hat will also be introducing extended lifecycle support for OpenShift, extending the range from nine months to 18 months, helping to slow down the pace for companies having difficulty keeping up with the Kubernetes release cycle, which puts out a new version every three months.

Red Hat has also made Quarkus available to all OpenShift customers, and Gracely said that the framework, which has been available for just over a year now, is really beginning to pay dividends.

In essence, this allows OpenShift Kubernetes to treat remote nodes as part of the same cluster, which Gracely said was a matter of tweaking to make sure that, when the response time was longer than the normally sensitive response expected of a local resource, Kubernetes wouldn’t unschedule that remote resource.