Modernizing and securing applications is more critical now than ever. Red Hat, in collaboration with Veeam, offers a comprehensive solution that leverages the power of Kubernetes and OpenShift, ensuring that your applications are both modernized and protected. This blog delves into the key aspects of this partnership and outlines the benefits and features we detailed in our recent webinar.
The Kubernetes Landscape
Kubernetes is becoming increasingly popular for container orchestration, which presents several opportunities and challenges. As businesses adopt Kubernetes, they need to ensure continuity, governance, and protection for their applications and data. However, they may face significant obstacles, including:
- Cross-cloud workloads: Needing to move workloads across heterogenous public and private cloud environments.
- Manual processes: Time-consuming manual processes that can lead to errors.
- Infrastructure complexity: Increasing complexity when managing diverse IT environments.
- Cyber threats: Rising threats from cyberattacks that target Kubernetes clusters.
Why Red Hat and Veeam?
By combining Red Hat OpenShift with Veeam Kasten, businesses can gain a powerful solution to address the challenges listed above. Together, these solutions offer:
- Business continuity: Assurance that your applications and their data remain available and resilient.
- Data governance: Control over your data even across various environments.
- Application and data protection: Protection against data loss and cyber threats.
Application Modernization with Red Hat OpenShift and Veeam Kasten
Red Hat OpenShift, enhanced by Veeam Kasten, supports application modernization through backup and disaster recovery (DR) solutions, application mobility, migration capabilities and ransomware protection. This includes integration with various cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or multi-cloud environments, helping ensure that your applications can be easily managed and scaled while maintaining high availability and security.
Key Benefits of Application Modernization
- Adopting CI/CD automation processes: Streamlined development and deployment pipelines.
- Cost savings: Reduced infrastructure and operational costs through efficient resource utilization.
- Improved development speeds: Accelerated development cycles and time-to-market.
Cybersecurity in Kubernetes Environments
Kubernetes, while powerful, is not immune to cyber threats. High-profile attacks have also targeted Kubernetes clusters for data theft and cryptocurrency mining. Veeam Kasten addresses these threats with advanced security measures that ensure your Kubernetes deployments remain secure and compliant with industry standards.
Common Cyber Threats in Kubernetes
- Data theft: Unauthorized access to sensitive information stored in Kubernetes clusters.
- Cryptocurrency mining: Hijacking computational resources for illegal mining activities.
- Denial of Service (DoS) attacks: Disrupting services and causing downtime.
Benefits Across Different Environments
Whether your applications run in physical, virtual, private cloud, public cloud, or edge environments, Red Hat and Veeam can ensure trust and consistency. The hybrid cloud approach enables seamless integration and management across all these environments to provide reliability and scalability.
Unified Management and Scalability
Red Hat OpenShift acts as a consistent and secure management and orchestration platform that spans hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This ensures that businesses can manage their diverse IT environments effectively and reduce complexity and enhance operational efficiency.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization brings cloud-native functionality to virtual machines (VMs) by allowing you to run VMs within OpenShift while retaining the performance, stability, and scalability of the KVM hypervisor. This unified platform supports both VMs and containers, thus enabling seamless transitions and simple modernization for legacy applications.
Key Features of OpenShift Virtualization
- Unified application platform: Integrating VMs and containers under a single platform.
- Enhanced performance: Utilizing the KVM hypervisor for high-performance virtualization.
- Scalability: Supporting large-scale deployments with extensive scalability features.
Modernizing Traditional Virtualization
Legacy virtualization environments often face high costs, slow evolution, and limited scalability. Modern environments, powered by Red Hat OpenShift, can address these challenges by reducing operating and licensing costs, enhancing security, and integrating development tools. This enables faster innovation and higher productivity for development teams.
Addressing Legacy Virtualization Challenges
- Cost reduction: Lowering operational and licensing costs through efficient resource utilization.
- Enhanced security: Integrating advanced security features to protect virtualized environments.
- Integrated development tools: Providing tools that streamline development and deployment processes.
Automated VM Provisioning with OpenShift
Traditional VM provisioning processes can often be slow and fragmented. Red Hat OpenShift streamlines this process with automated workflows that can reduce provisioning times from weeks to just minutes. This next-generation approach ensures that your VMs are provisioned with validated network, storage, and security configurations, therefore accelerating deployment and reducing errors.
Benefits of Automated Provisioning
- Speed: Significantly reducing the time required to provision VMs.
- Accuracy: Ensuring your VMs are configured correctly with validated settings.
- Efficiency: Automating repetitive tasks to free up IT resources for more strategic activities.
OpenShift Virtualization: Iteratively Modernizing Applications
OpenShift Virtualization offers a step-by-step approach to modernizing applications. Organizations have the flexibility to first migrate their VM workloads to the platform, then gradually modernize their applications into cloud native architectures. By shifting and modernizing applications from traditional VMs to containers, businesses can gradually transition to more efficient and scalable environments.
Step-by-Step Modernization
- Initial assessment: Evaluate current virtualization environments and identify modernization opportunities.
- Incremental migration: Gradually migrate applications to OpenShift Virtualization.
- Continuous improvement: Iteratively refine and optimize your modernized environment.
VM and Cloud-native Workloads: Managed and Protected
Red Hat OpenShift and Veeam Kasten work together to manage and protect both VMs and cloud-native workloads. Key features include:
- Cloud-native integration: Fully integrated with cloud-native technologies.
- Compliance: FIPS 140-3 compliant for security.
- Encryption: Integrated end-to-end encryption ensures data is transferred and stored securely
- Immutability: Support for immutable repositories to ensure backup data can’t be held ransom or accidentally deleted.
- Advanced management: Leveraging Advanced Cluster Manager (ACM) and CephRBD integration for efficient backup and snapshot management.
The partnership between Red Hat and Veeam offers a top-tier solution for modernizing and protecting your applications. By leveraging Red Hat OpenShift’s robust platform and Veeam Kasten’s data management capabilities, businesses can achieve greater agility, security, and efficiency.
Ready to modernize and protect your applications? Explore how Red Hat and Veeam can help your business stay ahead in the competitive landscape or watch our on-demand webinar.