Red Hat unveils Container-Native Storage Solution on Amazon Web Services

Red Hat has introduced a container-native storage solution aimed at extending the portability of containerized applications across the hybrid cloud which offers consistent, software-defined storage for stateful applications using Red Hat Gluster Storage with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Red Hat is expanding availability of Red Hat Gluster Storage for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in AWS environments, helping to enable true portability of containerized applications with consistent storage. Red Hat Gluster Storage is software-defined storage integrated with and optimized for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for cloud-native application development. Red Hat Gluster Storage can be deployed anywhere. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform runs – across bare metal, containers, virtual machines, and private and public clouds – offering consistent storage for users and developers of containerized applications. The storage provisioning and deployment is automated by Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, offering self-service access to developers and users.

Ranga Rangachari, Vice-President and General Manager, Red Hat Storage, said, “Today’s developers and users want elastic storage capacity to be immediately available in multiple environments, and they can’t afford to be distracted by the operational realities. This solution enables smooth application transition across cloud boundaries, allowing for greater flexibility and agility. We hope to be able to enable customers to use Red Hat Gluster Storage with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on other public clouds in the future.”

Red Hat offers an Ansible Playbook for constructing a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster on AWS with container-native Red Hat Gluster Storage.