Enhanced Governance, Compliance and Scalability with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.10

In the ever-evolving landscape of Kubernetes management, staying ahead is not just about innovation; it's about efficiency, compliance, and scalability. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes continues to pave the way for organizations navigating the complexities of modern cloud-native environments. With the new release of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.10,  we introduce a host of features geared towards solving governance challenges, and providing the right tools to bring operational excellence to your platform engineering.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

The cornerstone of any robust Kubernetes management strategy lies in governance, risk mitigation, and compliance. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.10 bolsters these crucial aspects with a range of new features:

Policy compliance history (TP): Understanding compliance history across your fleet is essential for maintaining security and regulatory adherence. With Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.10, you can now effortlessly track compliance history of policies across your entire environment, offering deeper insights into your security posture.

Enhanced OLM operator integration (TP): Installing and managing operators at scale just got smoother with the enhancements to the OperatorPolicy API. This native integration with OLM streamlines the installation and management of operators, ensuring seamless operations across your clusters.

Gatekeeper operator uplift: Keeping in line with the upstream community, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.10 uplifts the Gatekeeper Operator to version 3.14. This alignment enhances configurability and ensures compatibility with the latest innovations, reinforcing security and governance protocols.

Improved debugging of policy violations: Diagnosing policy violations is now more intuitive with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.10. The governance framework now provides a comprehensive "diff" between desired and actual states, enabling administrators to swiftly identify and rectify security concerns.

Scale Out Application Deployments with OpenShift GitOps

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.10 empowers organizations to scale application deployments efficiently while maintaining robust security measures:

Multicluster networking support: Leveraging Submariner, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management now extends multicluster secure networking support to bare metal and Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud (RHOIC). This enhancement ensures seamless communication across a wider variety of clusters, for example facilitating application deployments leveraging data replication.

ApplicationSet pull model with OpenShift GitOps: GitOps-based architectures can be designed in a few different ways. This announcement provides a new GitOps pattern that fits better into Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management’s asynchronous delivery architecture for better scalability and security. Now generally available and available to use from the user interface.

Enhanced Cluster Lifecycle: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.10 brings several enhancements to cluster lifecycle management:

• Authentication for HTTPS osImages Content: Addressing a common request, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management now supports authentication for HTTPS osImages content, bolstering security during cluster deployment and addressing diverse use cases such as in disconnected bare metal environments.
• Non-Recommended Version Updates: Administrators now have the flexibility to update managed clusters using non-recommended versions, providing greater control over the update process and the possibility to work with early OpenShift releases.
• OpenShift cluster version updates: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management introduces the capability to update managed OpenShift cluster versions, offering the same update capabilities for your SRE managed OpenShift clusters as you have already been enjoying for your self-managed OCP fleet.

Observability at Scale enhancements

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.10 enhances our multicluster observability capabilities, enabling organizations to gain deeper insights into their environment:

• Fleet View Customization: Customize your fleet view using data from search results, tailoring observability to suit your specific requirements.
• Hosted Control Planes Capacity Planning: Many factors, including kube-apiserver request rate and node resources, affect how many hosted clusters you could fit in a hosting cluster. Monitor hosting cluster capacity with dedicated dashboards, ensuring optimal performance and resource allocation.

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management helps your business achieve new levels of efficiency, control and IT security in managing your clusters, governance policies and GitOps processes. These enhancements are designed to simplify your day-to-day operations and provide the flexibility you need to adapt to changing requirements.

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.10 is now generally available. To learn more and find out about new features, refer to our product page and the release notes, and get started with our trial experience here.