Red Hat Container-Native Storage, built on top of Red Hat Gluster Storage, is integrated with the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and serves as a container storage solution. Red Hat Gluster Storage is enterprise-class, durable, more secure, and well-suited for hybrid cloud environments, supporting deployments in the public cloud or on-premises. These attributes make it the ideal solution for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform deployments. Red Hat Container-Native Storage can eliminate the need for a separate storage platform, enabling customers to achieve an integrated container platform that can span the hybrid cloud more efficiently, at a lower cost, and with a simplified user experience, all with a single control plane and a single point of support.
 
Red Hat Container-Native Storage 3.6
The shift to container-based applications can pose challenges to existing traditional storage architectures, slowing the pace of innovation and progress. Software-defined, container-native storage addresses these challenges by combining storage services with the container platform just like any other container service, running in physical, virtual, and public clouds, and even on top of traditional storage devices. Existing traditional storage architectures don't always offer this level of inherent scalability and flexibility, and as a result, they can't fully leverage the potential of container application platforms like Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
 
With Red Hat Container-Native Storage 3.6, Red Hat proves to be the leading provider of native storage for container platforms with the following new features:
 
● A versatile container storage platform that allows customers to manage, scale, and upgrade their storage needs using a single control plane, helping them achieve greater storage efficiency and cost savings. Red Hat Container-Native Storage now offers support for file, block, and object interfaces, enabling seamless portability of container applications to the container platform. The addition of block storage (via iSCSI) provides support for distributed databases and other low-latency workloads such as Elasticsearch, while the addition of object storage (in Technology Preview) provides an object store integrated into the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for cloud-native applications, requiring Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as the protocol support.
 
● Support for all the core infrastructure elements of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, including logging and metrics. Support for these core components allows administrators to have Red Hat Container-Native Storage for their infrastructure ready to use, eliminating the need for multiple storage systems for different aspects of the infrastructure and providing an integrated platform with easy management and support.
 
● Three times the number of applications and microservices deployed on a single storage cluster. [1] Increased persistent volume density provides customers with greater resource utilization.
 
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Test Drive with Red Hat Container-Native Storage: Red Hat has also launched a new OpenShift Container Platform Test Drive with Container-Native Storage, allowing customers to simulate a Red Hat OpenShift deployment in the public cloud. This Test Drive aims to provide an administrator with a multi-node Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster running in the cloud. Customers will be able to explore hands-on exercises designed to expose them to various administrative and operational tasks with both Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Container-Native Storage.
 
Availability
Red Hat Container-Native Storage 3.6 is expected to be available later this month.

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