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It also includes Red Hat CodeReady Containers. These enable you to install a pre-built OpenShift environment on a laptop for local development. With this, programmers can get up to speed on Kubernetes programming. It’s more than just containers, though. CodeReady also gives you a framework, which ties together container development tools with a local cluster. Then, once you’ve built out container-based, cloud-native applications, you’ll be ready to deploy to an OpenShift testbed environment.
For developers, OpenShift 4.2 boasts the following features:
Web Console with a developer perspective so developers can focus on what matters to them, surfacing only information and configurations developers need to know. An enhanced UI for application topology and application builds makes it easier for developers to build, deploy, and visualize containerized applications and cluster resources.Odo, a developer-focused command-line interface that simplifies application development on OpenShift. Using a “git push” style interaction, this CLI helps developers who don’t know how Kubernetes creates applications on OpenShift — without needing to understand the details of Kubernetes operations.Red Hat OpenShift Connector for Microsoft Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDE (including IntelliJ), and Eclipse Desktop IDE makes it easier to plug into existing developer pipelines. Developers can develop, build, debug, and deploy their applications on OpenShift without leaving their favorite coding IDE.Red Hat OpenShift Deployment Extension for Microsoft Azure DevOps. Users of this DevOps toolchain can now deploy their built applications to Azure Red Hat OpenShift or any other OpenShift cluster directly from Microsoft Azure DevOps.
As you might guess from OpenShift’s Azure support, OpenShift 4.2 runs across multiple platforms. With it, you can more easily install and run the OpenShift Container Platform across many different clouds. These include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and private clouds like OpenStack. This release also includes migration tools to make it easier to upgrade from OpenShift 3 to 4.
This latest release also includes improved Container Storage Interface (CSI) drivers. With these, third-party storage providers have a more consistent way to plug into the Kubernetes deployments. OpenShift 4.2 also supports OpenShift Container Storage 4, a beta Gluster-based software-defined storage program.
Red Hat OpenShift 4.2 will be available in the coming weeks. You can try it out at try.openshift.com.
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