Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.13 expands hybrid cloud management capabilities

Red Hat today announced the general availability of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.13, delivering enhanced capabilities for managing hybrid cloud environments. This release introduces key features that simplify operations across traditional virtualization and cloud-native infrastructure. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.13 is also another Extended Update Support (EUS) term 2 release (Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.11 was the previous EUS term 2 release), which means that Red Hat offers an available 3rd year of extended support providing backports of critical and important impact security updates and urgent bug fixes. This means you can have a longer term of maintenance and security hardening available for your central hub management to keep your mind at ease. 

Generally available features

Bridging traditional and cloud-native worlds

For VMware administrators and IT operations teams, new dashboards specifically designed for virtual machine management through Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization are now generally available. This integration provides a unified view of both containerized and virtual machine workloads from a single console which streamlines day-to-day operations and reduces context switching and tooling.

Consolidated policy management view in Kyverno  

We enhanced the policy discovery capabilities, and now users can view Kyverno and ValidatingAdmissionPolicy across the management domain (or fleet) in addition to the existing open cluster management and gatekeeper policies. This integration allows teams to maintain their existing Kyverno investments while gaining the benefits of fleet-wide policy management through Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management. (Note: Red Hat support for Kyverno as a run-time policy engine is not being offered.)

Explore this new policy capability in this demo.

Policy Discovery in RHACM 2.13

Streamlined security with ValidatingAdmissionPolicy support

Application owners and platform teams can now manage ValidatingAdmissionPolicies through Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management's governance dashboard, providing a unified view of security policies across the entire cluster fleet.

Simplified operations at scale

IT operations teams will benefit from improvements to resource management that enables finer-grained control of resources across hubs and clusters. An example is the ability to set memory and CPU limits for add-on components. This clear approach is identical to one used to manage resources for the OpenShift control plane, re-using understood methods and tooling.

Technical preview features

Global visibility and control

Global Hub inventory search capabilities continue as a technical preview. This feature enables fleet-wide resource discovery and reporting, supporting critical business needs such as:

• Real-time resource utilization report generation for analysis
• Testing Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management policies as part of continuous integration to improve pre-deployment validation
• Detecting deprecated operators and providing policy violation information in multicluster deployments
• Cross-cluster resource management

Additional Technical Preview features include:

• Cluster lifecycle for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Hosted Control Planes
• Global Hub Event-Driven Ansible Integration

Developer preview features

Right-sizing for OpenShift Virtualization 

As organizations scale their virtualized workloads on OpenShift, understanding resource utilization becomes increasingly critical. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.13 introduces right-sizing recommendations for OpenShift Virtualization as a developer preview feature. Right-sizing recommendations are powered by Prometheus recording rules and can be consumed over different aggregation periods. This capability provides CPU and memory recommendations at the virtual machine (VM) level, avoiding the risk of under or over provisioning and allowing users to optimize resources in a timely manner. Learn more about features in developer preview. See right-sizing in action:

Right Sizing for Virtual Machines

Multicluster alerting UI in the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management console

We’ve introduced the ability for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management to collect and centralize metrics so customers can detect patterns of events in the fleet to proactively identify issues.  An example implementation would be a customer who creates a custom alert to detect more than 50 pending pods in a cluster. If the alert is detected, this may indicate an issue in the fleet that administrators can explore. This capability is highly flexible and only limited by your imagination.

Let’s see this new feature in action in this demo.   

Multicluster Alerting UI with RHACM

These enhancements reflect Red Hat's commitment to simplifying hybrid cloud management while supporting both traditional and cloud-native workloads. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.13 is available now for current subscribers through the Red Hat Customer Portal.

Get started

Ready to experience the power of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.13? Existing customers can upgrade through their usual channels. For new users, visit the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management product page to learn more , start a trial or explore the documentation.