Red Hat OpenShift is the application platform to build, modernize, and deploy applications. Red Hat OpenShift 4.15, based on Kubernetes 1.28 and CRI-O 1.28, is now generally available. Review What’s new for developers in Red Hat OpenShift 4.15 to get the details on the latest release. To try OpenShift, start with the Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift or check out our learning content.
Application Build
Red Hat Developer Hub provides a unified platform and features a variety of tools and resources to simplify the development process. Red Hat Developer Hub 1.1, based on Backstage 1.23.4, is now generally available. It provides a generally available Red Hat Developer Hub operator, adds role-based access controls (RBAC) using the web interface, has migrated to the new Backstage backend system, supports viewing of installed plugins via the web interface, and can be installed on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) and Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS). See the release notes to find out more about the release and see what plugins are available. Read Achieve more with less using Red Hat Developer Hub's self-service features to learn how teams can boost developer productivity by implementing Red Hat Developer Hub to automate repetitive tasks and introduce self-service options.
Red Hat OpenShift Local brings Red Hat OpenShift to your local computer. Red Hat OpenShift Local 2.31, based on OpenShift 4.14.7, Podman 4.4.4 and MicroShift 4.14.7, is generally available. This release adds a GUI binary helper win32-background-launcher to start the daemon on Microsoft Windows, to fix bugs around the daemon starting and updates the admin-helper to version 0.5.2. More information can be found in the release notes. Red Hat OpenShift Local 2.32, based on OpenShift 4.14.8 and MicroShift 4.14.8, is generally available. This release updates crc-libvirt-driver to 0.13.7 and deprecates the Podman preset and will be removed in a future release. As an alternative, Podman Desktop can be used. Please see the release notes for additional information. Red Hat OpenShift Local 2.33, based on OpenShift 4.14.12 and MicroShift 4.14.12, is generally available. This release adds a preflight check to let users know if port 2222 used for SSH by crc is pre-allocated, appends clustername to the user name entries added by crc in the kubeconfig file, uses oc binaries for Apple bundles and changes the default Reclaim policy for dynamic PVs created in Red Hat OpenShift Local to Retain. Review the release notes for more details.
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces is a web-based development environment for Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.11, based on Eclipse Che 7.80, is generally available. Running on OpenShift 4.11 to 4.14, this release allows cluster admins to manage the onboarding and curating of access to OpenShift Dev Spaces with allowUsers, allowGroups, denyUsers, denyGroups in the Custom resource, supports Microsoft Visual Studio Code extensions that use OAuth2 authorization code flow, uses Java 17 by default in the universal developer image, and lets you configure SSH keys and open workspaces for most Git providers. The complete list of new features can be found in the Dev Spaces v3.11 release notes.
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.12, based on Eclipse Che 7.82, is generally available. Running on OpenShift 4.12 to 4.15, this release allows the sharing of certificates, secrets, and configuration files across all users, override the editor’s image using a dedicated URL parameter when starting a cloud development environment, and supports running the Che-Code editor in the Red Hat Universal Base Image 9. The complete list of new features can be found in the Dev Spaces v3.12 release notes. Read Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces security best practices to discover key security best practices for OpenShift Dev Spaces.
Podman Desktop provides a user-friendly dashboard to interact with and manage containers, images, pods, etc. Podman Desktop 1.7, running Podman 4.9.0, provides extension API improvements, an experimental Kubernetes UI, allows you to choose which platform to build an image for and so much more! See the release notes for more details. Podman Desktop 1.8, running Podman 4.9.3, introduces an advanced UI and new tools, Kubernetes Explorer, for working with Kubernetes clusters, provides global onboarding to eliminate configuration and setup issues, a new learning center and other improvements. See the release notes for more information. Click here to download and try Podman Desktop. Check out Podman Desktop wins 2024 DEVIES Award to learn more about Podman Desktop’s win for innovation in Containers & Kubernetes.
OpenShift Toolkit IDE extension by Red Hat for Visual Code and IntelliJ makes it easier to deploy your code to OpenShift using Import From Git, lets you seamlessly integrate with OpenShift Serverless Functions (Function CLI 1.13 and OpenShift Serverless 1.31) within OpenShift Toolkit for VS Code, provides smoother onboarding with the Developer Sandbox from VSCode without having to leave the IDE, improves Helm Chart deployment, allows deployment of your container images to any OpenShift cluster directly from the IDE, and more.
OpenShift Serverless provides autoscaling and networking for containerized microservices and functions. OpenShift Serverless 1.32, based on Knative 1.11, is now generally available. New features include, Knative Eventing monitoring dashboards in the Developer perspective of OpenShift Console, on-cluster function building for IBM P/Z, custom OpenShift CA bundle injection for system components. New features in technology preview include, Go language for Serverless Functions, Data in Transit encryption and new trigger filter for Event driven apps. Plus Integration with Custom Metric Autoscaler is in the developer view. To discover additional capabilities, please see the release notes.
Red Hat's migration toolkit for applications 7.0 supports multiple languages, adds new rules syntax, automates classification, and provides dynamic reports. Container images for OpenShift are available with Node.js 20. The Java 21 builder and runtime container images for OpenShift are available. Quarkus 3.8 (coming soon) will add Redis 7.2 support, Java 21 support, Arm native support, and OpenSearch Dev services. Spring Boot 3.1.x and 3.2.x have tested and verified runtimes on OpenShift. Please see the
Application delivery
Red Hat OpenShift GitOps allows administrators to consistently configure and deploy Kubernetes infrastructure and applications across clusters and development life cycles. OpenShift GitOps 1.11, based on Argo CD 2.9.2, introduced dynamic shard rebalancing in Technology Preview and other new capabilities. More information can be found in the OpenShift GitOps 1.11 release notes. OpenShift GitOps 1.12, based on Argo CD 2.10, added several new features, including an Argo CD CLI in technology preview. For a comprehensive list of all new features, please see What’s new in Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.12.
OpenShift Pipelines is a cloud-native continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) solution based on Kubernetes that automates deployments across multiple platforms by removing hidden implementation details. Openshift Pipelines 1.14.0, based on Tekton 0.56, adds a new web console plugin in technology preview to view pipeline and task execution statistics and uses Pipeline as Code to communicate with multiple Github instances. See the release notes to learn more. Learn how to get started with OpenShift Pipelines, see Getting Started with OpenShift Pipelines.
Application security
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh creates a central point of control in an application. OpenShift Service Mesh 2.5, based on Istio 1.18 and Kiali 1.73, adds General Availability support for Arm clusters, more options for observability integrations with the addition of Zipkin, OpenTelemetry, and envoyOtelAls extension providers, and General Availability of OpenShift Service Mesh Console plug-in. IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack support and the Kiali Backstage plug-in for Red Hat Developer Hub are both available in Developer Preview. The updated Developer Preview of the Service Mesh 3 Kubernetes Operator (or the Sail Operator) is available. More information can be found in the OpenShift Service Mesh 2.50 release notes. Read Canary deployment strategy with OpenShift Service Mesh to see an example of how to install, deploy and manage the life cycle of cloud-native applications doing canary deployment using OpenShift Service Mesh.
Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry, based on OpenTelemetry, unifies, standardizes, and delivers vendor-neutral telemetry data collection for cloud-native software. The Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry 3.1 (based on OpenTelemetry 0.93.0) adds support for the target allocator in the OpenTelemetry Collector, which is an optional component of the OpenTelemetry operator that shards Prometheus receiver scrape targets across the deployed fleet of OpenTelemetry Collector instances and provides integration with the Prometheus PodMonitor and ServiceMonitor custom resources.
Power Monitoring for Red Hat OpenShift 0.1, based on Kepler is in Technology Preview, is integrated into the Console and shows the total energy consumed in the clusters during the last 24 hours, including the CPU architecture, number of monitored nodes, source for the power metrics and a breakdown of the top power consuming namespaces. With OpenShift Logging 5.9, log metrics are displayed in the Log UI in the Console and can be searched across namespaces.
Network Observability is used to observe the network traffic for OpenShift Container Platform clusters. Network Observability 1.5 adds several new features, including new metrics to create Prometheus alerts and monitor network traffic and troubleshoot with RTT metrics, filtering, and edge labeling. Read What's new in Network Observability 1.5 to learn more about these new features and other additions.
