Red Hat’s new pathway to enterprise-ready Linux containers

NEW DELHI: Open source solutions provider Red Hat has launched its end-to-end ecosystem program for Linux containers based on Docker.

The ecosystem program is designed to enable the design, development and delivery of certified, trusted and secure application containers to end users through a set of industry standards, including the Docker container format and the Docker Engine.

“Representing the next wave of enterprise application architecture, Linux containers facilitate the creation of an efficient, composable fabric of lightweight “microservices” that can be woven into more complex applications, yet containerized applications still interact with the operating system and require enterprise-class support, security and the knowledge are still flexible enough to adapt to changing IT needs,” a statement said.

Paul Cormier, President, Products and Technologies, Red Hat: “Containers represent a massive shift in how enterprises consume applications, but in doing so the critical aspects of the traditional application lifecycle, namely security and certification, must be retained as well.

With the industry’s first certified, secure, end-to-end container ecosystem, Red Hat now leads the way in enabling Linux containers for the enterprise, from conceptualization to development to delivery, maintaining the key innovations of the technology without sacrificing the basic enterprise needs of application security and provenance.”

Ben Golub, CEO, Docker, said: "We are excited to see Red Hat create a certification program that will drive even more ISVs to create

Docker container-based services, which furthers the already incredible content choice for developers. Docker and Red Hat continue to collaborate closely in the community, to advance the Docker container format and Engine, and to define open standards in areas like trust and provenance.

We are also exploring ways to federate Red Hat certified content from Red Hat Container Registry into Docker Hub and Docker Hub Enterprise to provide users the broadest array of Dockerized apps to choose from to compose distributed applications.”