Red Hat provides a purpose-built container host
for secure and reliable containerized applications across the open
hybrid cloud
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host, an operating system optimized
for running the next generation of applications with Linux
containers. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host provides all of
the components necessary to easily package and run applications
written for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 as containers.
As monolithic stacks give way to applications comprised of
microservices, a container-based architecture can help enterprises
to more fully realize the benefits of this more nimble, composable
approach. Based on the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host enables enterprises to
embrace a container-based architecture, reaping the benefits of
development and deployment flexibility and simplified maintenance,
without sacrificing performance, stability, security, or the value
of Red Hat’s vast certified ecosystem.
An application architecture based on Linux containers requires
not only the tools to build and run containers, but also an
underlying foundation that is secure, reliable, and
enterprise-grade, with an established lifecycle designed to meet
the ongoing requirements of the enterprise over the long term.
These requirements include mitigation of security concerns, ongoing
product enhancements, proactive diagnostics, and access to support.
Red Hat is committed to offering enterprises a complete and
integrated container-based infrastructure solution, combining
container-based application packaging with robust, optimized
infrastructure that will enable easy movement of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux-certified applications across bare metal systems, virtual
machines and private and public clouds - all of this with the
product and security lifecycle that enterprise customers require.
The release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host delivers on
Red Hat's intent to make Linux containers a stable and reliable
component of enterprise IT across the open hybrid cloud.
The Enterprise-Ready Container Host
Specifically designed to run Linux containers, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Atomic Host delivers only the operating system
components required to run a containerized application, reducing
overhead and simplifying maintenance. Because Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7 Atomic Host is built from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, it
inherits Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7's stability and maturity, as
well as its vast ecosystem of certified hardware partners.
Security is always a top enterprise priority, but the security
properties of containers – including the ability to maintain
security across a container’s lifecycle - have raised additional
questions. To address container security and lifecycle concerns,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host offers automated security
updates on-demand, bringing enterprise customers the support and
lifecycle benefits that come with Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a
reduced image size. From Heartbleed and Shellshock to Ghost and
beyond, Red Hat customers receive security notifications and
product updates as they are available and also have access to
security tools that address container reliability and security.
This is a benefit Red Hat uniquely brings to container deployments
for enterprise customers.
For building and maintaining container infrastructure, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host provides many benefits,
including:
- Atomic updating and rollback
through an image-like update mechanism. An atomic update can be
downloaded and deployed in a single step, while the previous
version is retained, allowing for easy atomic rollback, if
necessary.
- Container images in docker
format can be deployed and run as application containers.
- Certification and support, along
with a chain of trust for containers built using platform images
provided by Red Hat, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 and
certified containers from Red Hat’s independent software vendor
(ISV) partners.
- Container orchestration at scale
through Kubernetes, creating large-scale business applications from
discrete services deployed in containers across clusters of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host.
- Stronger security by default
through SELinux, cgroups and kernel namespaces, isolating each
container in a multi-container environment.
- Support for super-privileged
containers enables host management applications to access the
host and other containers in a secure manner. This specialized
container provides users with the means to install third party
software and the atomic command inherent to Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7 Atomic Host makes creating and running super privileged
containers dramatically easier.
- Application portability across the
open hybrid cloud by leveraging Red Hat’s vast certified
ecosystem, enabling secure, stable container deployments on
physical hardware, on certified hypervisors including Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization, VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, and on
certified public cloud services like Amazon Web Services and Google
Cloud Platform.
Virtual Event
At 11 a.m. EDT on March 12, 2015, Red Hat will host “Transform
Application Delivery with Containers,” a virtual event that further
drills into the real world use cases and value of Linux containers.
For more information and to register, please visit
http://bit.ly/1Aigjde.
Supporting Quotes
Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platforms
Business Unit, Red Hat
“Twelve years ago, Red Hat delivered the first iteration of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux, taking a cutting edge software technology and
molding it into the backbone that powers the enterprise, from the
server to the cloud. Today, with the launch of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7 Atomic Host, we are doing the same for Linux containers,
bridging innovative open technology with the stability and security
required by the enterprise. More than just an addition to the Red
Hat Enterprise Linux portfolio, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic
Host showcases the future of the enterprise application, a
powerful, flexible application greater than the sum of its parts,
and entirely fueled by the power of open innovation.”
Masahiko Iwata, general manager, NTT Open Source Software
Center, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
"With the advent of powerful runtimes like Docker and Kubernetes
that simplify the management of containers through their whole
lifecycle, Linux containers as a technology is finally fulfilling
its potential and revolutionizing the PaaS landscape. We believe
that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host completes the picture
by providing a hardened container platform that builds on a trusted
operating system, this being Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, and
integrates the tooling of container-based application and service
deployment."
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Red Hat Enterprise
Linux Atomic Host
- Learn more about Linux containers
- Download Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Atomic Host (requires login)
- Read more about Project Atomic
- Register to attend Transform
Application Delivery with Linux Containers | A Red Hat virtual
event
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Enterprise Linux via the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Blog
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