Agility is everything in the digital world, with businesses striving to bring new products to market in the fastest and cheapest way possible. Azure Red Hat OpenShift could be the answer.

In the digital marketplace, agility is everything. Businesses are coming under pressure to innovate faster, more successfully and for less money than their competitors. Those who get it right bring products to market more quickly, have fewer problems and can be more price competitive. Those which don’t will be slower, less reliable, and more expensive.

Having the best tools available, therefore, will be crucial which is why there’s so much excitement surrounding Azure Red Hat OpenShift.

What is Azure Red Hat OpenShift?

Azure Red Hat OpenShift is a fully managed service offering OpenShift clusters on Azure. It’s a fast, scalable open shift service jointly supported and managed by Red Hat and Microsoft, which provides a host of benefits to businesses of all kinds.

It aims to provide containerization services and enable your developers to bring products to market faster, securely and efficiently. In a world in which businesses are under pressure to manage costs while improving performance, this has benefits at both ends of the funnel. Here are three reasons why you should be excited about it.

1.       Rapid app development

The key behind OpenShift’s success is the ability to accelerate app development.

It creates fully managed clusters in just a few minutes and reduces time wastage from developers waiting for infrastructure to be available. It also offers self service deployment which means you can get up and running with more speed and agility.

It automates many of the key processes, providing code ready workspaces, service catalogues and operators to help your developers do what they do best – get coding as soon as possible and start bringing projects to fruition.

2.       Reduced costs

OpenShift operates in the cloud environment reducing the expense and interruption involved in setting up and maintaining your own onsite data centres. Day to day operations can be offloaded onto the Red Hat and Microsoft teams which provide extensive support for all customers. It’s an automated and fully stacked offering which reduces IT operational costs across the board. The ability to move faster, also adds to cost savings by driving down the number of man hours required for each process. Time, as they say, is money.

It also reduces potential wastage in resource use. Installing onsite data centers means you may find yourself having to over provision in order to ensure you can meet all capacity demands. Red Hat OpenShift exists entirely in the cloud which means it can be scaled up and down as you need to. Whatever happens with your business you’ll only be paying for as much capacity as you need.

3.       Security and consistency

With Azure Red Hat OpenShift you can seamlessly deploy Kubernetes in the cloud, on premise or work between the two. For example, you could begin on premises and extend into the cloud or multi-cloud environment without any interruption to processes. Microsoft’s sheer scale can be a major boost here. Because of the company’s massive global footprint, you can deploy close to the location of your business or any territory in the world.

Security is paramount with OpenShift offering integrated and continuously updating security in the cloud. This not only gives your company a level of security and reliability, but it also serves as a useful selling point when demonstrating the value of your service to customers. Increasingly, firms are conducting digital due diligence with third party providers focusing on cybersecurity and resilience. Having systems which use best in class security helps to build trust and comfort with your clients.

Conclusion

Faster, safer cheaper

Ultimately, Azure Red Hat OpenShift cuts out much of the waste in the process. It increases available resources, reducing waiting around and helps your developers to become more creative and productive. It’s a solution which offers everything modern developers need—faster innovation, top notch security, and reduced overheads. When deployed well, it gives businesses advantages at multiple points. 

If your organization is looking for a turnkey solution that provides all the architecture blueprints, software, and implementation services to deliver a secure, scalable, best practices cloud native container platform for continuous application delivery, Stone Door Group delivers that solution with our Azure Red Hat OpenShift Accelerator℠. This solution combines everything needed in one package to help customers to rapidly transform and modernize legacy applications on Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform. To learn more, email letsdothis@stonedoorgroup.com.

About the Author

Mike McDonough is a Senior Red Hat Architect with Stone Door Group and is responsible for designing and blueprinting OpenShift and Ansible architectures for Fortune 500 customers spanning a broad array of Red Hat technologies. With a 25+ year career in enterprise IT, Mike has deep experience in cloud architecture, automation, performance tuning and information security.