Recently, Red Hat presented its new updates to its tool portfolio for developers designed to enable enterprises to develop and deploy applications faster and more consistently across hybrid Kubernetes and multi-cloud environments.
To help customers keep pace with these changes, Red Hat offers new capabilities that take advantage of Git, an open source version control system, to simplify the development and deployment of applications in hybrid multi-cloud environments.
The recent release of Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines previews pipelines technology as code for Tekton, giving customers the ability to define and manage their continuous integration (CI) pipelines through Git data repositories and leverage GitOps workflows to improve repeatability and visibility and consistency throughout the cycle of life of the application.
Thanks to the new Tekton Chains tool, OpenShift Pipelines now provides integrated image signing capabilities that drive reliability across the chain application supply. Developers can also take advantage of user namespaces within pipelines to isolate tools that require root privileges and run them as non-root during their application development and within their delivery pipelines, without compromising security features.
Using OpenShift GitOps, customers can effectively manage their clusters, applications, and compliance operations OpenShift with familiar Git workflows that allow them to automate, define, and version their security practices within an easily auditable environment. The latest version includes Argo CD 2.3, which comes with new synchronization and differencing strategies, an improved user interface, and improved performance.
Red Hat also introduced its new browser-based and local systems development environments, Red Hat OpenShift DevSpaces 3 (formerly known as Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces) and Red Hat OpenShift Local 2 (formerly known as Red Hat CodeReady Containers), a new generation of browser-based and local development environments for Red Hat OpenShift, the leading enterprise Kubernetes platform.
Red Hat has also made improvements in several areas of your developer portfolio:
- DockerDesktop now has a new extension, available as a developer technology preview, that allows users to deploy a container image to OpenShift.
- Shipwright, the open source extensible framework for creating container images for Kubernetes, now offers volume support, a wider range of customization options, and the ability for users to create images from the local directory.
- All the serverless/knative function tools allow developers to work in VS Code or IntelliJ to visualize and deploy serverless applications from the development environment.
- ear 3.0, a command line interface (CLI) tool, for developers writing and deploying applications on OpenShift and Kubernetes, received a major update that focused on guided onboarding, outer loop development experience, and Devfile adoption to ensure consistency across the portfolio.
- dev file it is now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project. The native Kubernetes API is used to define containerized development environments and has been adopted in odo, OpenShift Web Console, OpenShift Dev Spaces, and various plugins for integrated development environments (IDEs).
Mithun Dhar, vice president and general manager of developer tools and programs at Red Hat, said:
“For developers leading today's business transformation, speed, agility, scalability and performance are of paramount importance. As the pace of innovation accelerates, developers not only face increasing pressure to bring new apps and services to market faster, but they also need to update and maintain existing apps. In some cases, this translates to several new codes being implemented every day. We want to make it as easy as possible for them and enable them to overcome these challenges with tools and capabilities that increase their efficiency and productivity. »