-CT News Bureau
Bengaluru, March 16: Red Hat, one of the the world’s leading providers of open source solutions, Monday announced the launch of the first certified, end-to-end ecosystem program for Linux containers based on Docker, a key component of the company’s vision for containerized applications unveiled in March 2014.
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat, said, “Containers represent a massive shift in how enterprises consume applications, but in doing so the critical aspects of the traditional application lifecycle, namely security and certification, must be retained as well. With the industry’s first certified, secure, end-to-end container ecosystem, Red Hat now leads the way in enabling Linux containers for the enterprise, from conceptualization to development to delivery, maintaining the key innovations of the technology without sacrificing the basic enterprise needs of application security and provenance.”
Leveraging Red Hat’s vast network of thousands of partners and independent software vendors (ISVs), this ecosystem program is designed to enable the design, development and delivery of certified, trusted and secure application containers to end users through a set of industry standards, including the Docker container format and the Docker engine.
Representing the next wave of enterprise application architecture, Linux containers facilitate the creation of an efficient, composable fabric of lightweight “microservices” that can be woven into more complex applications, yet containerized applications still interact with the operating system and require enterprise-class support, security and the knowledge are still flexible enough to adapt to changing IT needs. Much like traditional applications, that a Linux container actually contains only the intended application code, not harmful or malicious code.
Through Red Hat Connect for Technology Partners, ISV partners can more effectively engage and collaborate with Red Hat and other like-minded partners on container-based solutions. Participating partners will gain access to the Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK), a collection of tools and resources that enable developers to easily build and maintain containerized applications based on Docker for the Red Hat ecosystem. Red Hat Connect for Technology Partners also provides partners with access to documentation, knowledge-bases and forums, as well as certification tools and services that support the container’s lifecycle.