Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
What is Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes?
Red Hat® Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes offers end-to-end management, visibility, and control of your entire fleet from a single console, with operational policies built in. Extend the value of Red Hat OpenShift® by deploying apps, managing multiple clusters, and enforcing policies across multiple clusters deployed to datacenter, cloud, and edge environments. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes is included with Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus.
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Features and benefits
Key capabilities
Consistently manage, observe, and operate hybrid, multicloud, and edge clusters from a single control plane.
Fleet management
- Unified fleet management control plane to aid in provisioning clusters and applications
- Simplified IT operations with self-service cluster setup to reduce operational overhead
- End-to-end visibility and control from a central console to reduce context switching and cognitive load
- Hub-and-spoke architecture for managing all configurations and Kubernetes clusters
- Integration with all major cloud providers and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-conformant Kubernetes distributions for wide operational control
- Enhanced cluster lifecycle management with features like worker pool scaling and cluster hibernation
Fleet observability
- Comprehensive multicluster observability of fleet health for increased visibility and customized dashboards based on defined metrics
- Enhanced site reliability engineering (SRE) experience with included dashboards
- Proactive monitoring of cluster health and performance to help decrease mean time to resolution
- Fleet health monitoring with ability to sort, filter, and scan individual clusters and user workloads
- Dynamic search to identify, isolate, and resolve issues across distributed workloads
- Integration with Red Hat Insights for Red Hat OpenShift to provide intelligent analysis
Application lifecycle deployment
- Rapid and consistent deployments of workloads across fleet or specific clusters
- GitOps integrations for automatic and consistent application deployments and content delivery
- Increased application availability with placement integration
- Application topology view for wider visibility of application health
- Persistent volume replication for application migration
- Multisite, multicluster disaster recovery capabilities to recover and continue critical applications
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management + Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Using Ansible Automation Platform with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management helps you operationalize your OpenShift environments through automation. With the help of Event-Driven Ansible, you can:
- Automate physical, virtual, and containerized environments at scale across multicloud and hybrid cloud environments.
- Invoke Ansible Playbooks before or after key life cycle events.
- Perform automated actions at day zero, day one, when deploying and updating applications, and at other critical moments.
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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization
While Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes manages both virtual and containerized environments at scale, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization solely manages virtualized environments. It works with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine exclusively, providing a centralized platform for managing virtual machines throughout their lifecycle with consistency and compliance. Advanced Cluster Management for Virtualization also integrates with Ansible Automation Platform to automate routine tasks, reducing manual workload and increasing operational efficiency.
Telefónica works with Red Hat to modernize its applications
Find out how Telefónica uses Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes to manage and automate the configuration, installation, and maintenance of its multicloud environment with a single unified platform.
With Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management, we can manage all our clusters as if they were just one. We have started collaborating with our providers who are carrying out operations and maintenance so that many of the changes and validations made can be automated using the GitOps philosophy.
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