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Applications are moving from a monolithic to a cloud-native approach—built with multiple components Accelerate development spanning multiple clusters and cloud providers. As application workloads move from development to to production with production, IT often requires multiple fit-for-purpose Kubernetes clusters to support continuous self-service provisioning. integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) of DevOps pipelines. Cluster sprawl continues with the addition of new clusters configured for specific purposes, such as edge deployments, faster response time, reduced Free up IT departments latency, reduced capital expenditures (CapEx), and compliance with data residency requirements. with self-service cluster Whether your organization is just getting started with a single cluster or already operating in a multicluster deployment that environment, you likely face some difficult decisions: automatically delivers applications. • How can I manage the life cycle of multiple clusters regardless of where they reside (on-premise or across public clouds) using a single control plane? How do I get a simplified understanding of my cluster health and the impact it may have on my Increase application • application availability? availability with the ability to deploy legacy • How do I automate provisioning and deprovisioning of my clusters? and cloud-native • How do I ensure that all of my clusters are compliant with standard and custom policies? applications quickly across • How do I get alerted about configuration drift—and remediate it? distributed clusters. • How can I automate the placement of workloads based on capacity and policy? Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes Ease security compliance with Red Hat® Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes offers end-to-end management visibility and centralized policy control to manage your cluster and application life cycle, along with security and compliance of your entire enforcement across Kubernetes domain across multiple datacenters and public clouds. clusters. It provides a single view to manage your Kubernetes clusters—from Red Hat OpenShift® deployed on premise, bare metal, vSphere, and in public clouds, as well as clusters from public cloud providers like AWS, Reduce operational Microsoft Azure, Google, and IBM. costs with a unified Red Hat OpenShift is the clear choice for container orchestration, offering a platform for deploying and management interface. managing containers in a standard, consistent control plane. Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes provide the platform and capabilities that address common challenges faced by administrators and site reliability engineers (SREs) as they work across a range of environments, including multiple datacenters, private clouds, and public clouds that run Kubernetes clusters.

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Learn more at Features and benefits redhat.com/clustermanage ment. Multicluster observability for health and optimization

Enhanced site reliability (SRE) experience with out of the box multicluster dashboards that have the ability to store long-term historical data and provide an overview of multicluster health and optimization.

Table 1. Features and benefits of multicluster observability

Feature Benefit

Sort, filter, and scan individual clusters as well as aggregated Multicluster health multiclusters with Grafana. Use the open source Thanos monitoring project for scalable metrics collection with long-term data retention.

Use the graphical console to identify, isolate, and resolve Dynamic search issues impacting distributed workloads.

Visual web terminal Run operations from dashboards with a single command line based on Kui (tech interface for multiclusters. Works with helm, kubectl, and oc, preview) and allows the use of and grep commands.

Unified multicluster life-cycle management

Create, upgrade, and destroy Kubernetes clusters reliably, consistently, and at scale using an open source programming model that supports and encourages (IaC) best practices and design principles.

Table 2. Features and benefits of unified multicluster life-cycle management

Feature Benefit

Gain day 1 experience with cluster life-cycle management using Hive (https://github.com/openshift/hive) Red Hat OpenShift’s provisioning integration with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management’s console and application programming Cluster life-cycle interface (API) . Create and upgrade new Red Hat OpenShift management Container Platform clusters, or import existing OpenShift Container Platform and managed Kubernetes clusters to bring under management using the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management console.

Today, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management supports the Cloud providers creation of OpenShift Container Platform clusters on AWS, supported GCP, Azure, bare metal, and vSphere.

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Policy-based governance, risk, and compliance

Apply a policy-based governance approach to automatically monitor and ensure security and configuration controls are operated to industry compliance standards or self-imposed corporate standards in a desired state model.

Table 3. Features and benefits of policy-based governance, risk, and compliance

Feature Benefit

Out-of-the-box policy Use prebuilt security and configuration controllers to enforce templates for security policy on Kubernetes configuration, identity, and access and (IAM) and certificate management across your controls clusters.

Use the governance and risk dashboard to view and manage Governance and risk the number of security risks and policy violations in all of your dashboard clusters and applications. Get details on violation history.

Customize policies for various compliance standards, Customized policy governance dashboard views, and views for most impacted violation views controls for specific standards.

Develop custom policy controllers and seamlessly integrate Open source extensible them for centralized management into the governance and policy framework risk dashboard.

Integration with Open Enforce OPA policies at runtime and receive back any Policy Agent (OPA) violation to the OPA policy.

Advanced application life-cycle management

Use open standards and deploy applications using placement rules that are integrated into existing CI/CD pipelines and governance controls.

Table 4. Features and benefits of advanced application life-cycle management

Feature Benefit

Quickly view the health of service endpoints and pods Application topology associated with your application topology—with all the view connected dependencies like image versions, associated placement rules, Kubernetes resources, and ConfigMaps.

Automatically deploy applications to specific clusters by Channels and subscribing to different workload (resource) channels, such subscriptions as GitHub, Helm repository, ObjectStore, and resource templates.

Deploy workloads to clusters based on placement rule Placement rules definitions to ensure that they only run on specific clusters with matching labels.

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