Solution Brief Hybrid-Multicloud | Enterprise Container Platform Cloud-Native, Hybrid-Multicloud Platform: Red Hat OpenShift with Data Services Powered by Intel® Technology Transform your business and get ready for hybrid-multicloud databases, AI, and machine-learning workloads with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat Data Services on Intel® technology Executive Summary Hybrid-cloud-capable, cloud-native infrastructure is a major part of data center deployments, whether you’re talking about databases, artificial intelligence (AI), machine-learning, or telecommunications workloads. Today’s cloud-native applications use a distributed cloud approach, with some workloads running in private clouds and others running in public Solution Benefits clouds. Ninety-three percent of enterprises have a multicloud strategy.1 • Simple scalability from on- Infrastructure modernization, automation, and cloud-native containers premises to the hybrid cloud helps are important aspects of business transformation. The portability and enterprises easily accommodate repeatability of containers can create cost and resource savings, coupled with additional changes in workload faster time to market and rapid innovation. Containers have little overhead, demands. which helps to lower hardware, maintenance, and licensing costs. They can • High storage performance of be implemented quickly, and components can be shared among containers. Red Hat Data Services (OpenShift Organizations need high performance from their workloads to remain Container Storage) powered by competitive. They require flexible solutions that can run traditional Intel® Optane™ SSDs can help data analytics and AI applications. The solution described in this brief, enterprises get the most out of co-developed by Intel and Red Hat, helps enterprises modernize their data their Intel® Xeon® processors centers and start taking advantage of containers while lowering total costs. running AI, machine-learning, Based on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5, the solution is available analytics, and database workloads. in Base, Plus, and Edge configurations. This solution is specifically designed • Advanced security features for a cloud-native, hybrid-multicloud infrastructure and is powered by include technologies designed to the latest Intel® technologies. It includes AI tools optimized to run on 2nd help keep data secure and protect Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. data with minimal impact on The platform is customizable and fully interoperable with existing speed. infrastructure. Enterprises can use this solution to increase their hybrid- • High uptime with advanced RAS multicloud adoption and quickly release new AI services with efficiency features helps facilitate recovery, and scalability. which can reduce the frequency and cost of server downtime while protecting the integrity of mission- critical workloads. Fewer service disruptions can help lower total costs by reducing interruptions during drive swaps and providing LED management for faster status identification. Solution Brief | Cloud-Native, Hybrid-Multicloud Platform: Red Hat OpenShift with Data Services Powered by Intel® Technology 2 Modernize Infrastructure and Applications Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform uses the Container with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Runtime Interface–Open Container Initiative engine and Kubernetes-based orchestration. It provides container-as-a- Business transformation requires automation and containers service (CaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) workflows for for a modern infrastructure. That’s exactly what the Intel® developers and existing applications. To simplify infrastructure Reference Implementation for Cloud-Native Hybrid-Multicloud management, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform uses and SDN/NFV, built using the Red Hat OpenShift Container Red Hat Data Services built on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provides (see Figure 1). Red Hat Data Services Storage, which is based on Ceph, Rook, and Nooba. Storage (OpenShift Container Storage) powered by Intel® Optane™ SSDs nodes can also serve as regular compute nodes. provides foundational storage capabilities, complementing In response to feedback from the Kubernetes community in the compute and network capabilities of OpenShift. It also the telecom space, Intel is collaborating with the community provides a consistent and security-enabled Kubernetes to advance Kubernetes for networking. You can visit the Intel® cloud-native, hybrid-multicloud experience. A cloud-native Network Builders’ Container Experience Kits website for the infrastructure must accommodate a large, scalable mix latest developments. Here are a few examples: of services-oriented applications and their dependent components. These applications and components are • Kubernetes single-root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV) generally microservices-based, and the key to sustaining for I/O acceleration in OpenShift their operation is to have the right platform infrastructure. • Kubernetes Topology Manager for NUMA enhancement The solution documented here empowers enterprises to • Kubernetes Userspace common network interface (CNI) for accelerate and automate the development, deployment, and east-west traffic management of portable and cloud-native hybrid applications. • Kubernetes Multus CNI for high-performance container By taking full advantage of containers and automation without networking and data plane acceleration for NFV having to completely re-architect enterprise applications, environments application-development and IT operations teams gain the agility needed to develop cloud-native applications. They can also create and deploy portable applications with the speed Reduce Total Costs while Increasing Flexibility and consistency that businesses need to stay ahead of the in the Hybrid-Multicloud competition and drive new and increased revenue streams.2 The reference implementation described in this solution brief delivers a turnkey, end-to-end solution using the latest Advanced Multi-Cluster Management Intel technologies (see Figure 2) to deliver a production- Cluster Management Discovery | Policy | Compliance | Configuration | orkloads ready foundation. The solution simplifies hybrid-multicloud deployment, shares the latest best practices, and provides a Manage Workloads Build Cloud-Natve Apps Developer Productivity stable, highly available environment for running production applications. It also helps to provision and deploy a highly Platform Services Application Services Developer Services Service Mesh Databases | Languages Developer | VS Code available Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster Serverless | Builds Runtimes | Integration Extensions | IDE Plugins either on-premises or in a hybrid cloud with the registry CI/CD Pipelines Business Automation Code Ready orkspaces OpenShift Full Stack Logging 100+ ISV Services and Containers and the application pods backed by Red Hat Data Services Container Chargeback (OpenShift Container Storage). Proven to scale with 2nd Platform Cluster Services Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, these verified Automated Ops | Over-The-Air Updates | Monitoring reference configurations are workload-optimized and let Registry | Networking | Router | KubeVirt | OLM | Helm organizations deploy data center infrastructure quickly and efficiently with less tuning—thereby reducing total costs. Kubernetes OpenShift Kubernetes Engine Red Hat Enterprise Linux and RHEL CoreOS Node Node Node Pod Pod Pod Pod Pod Pod Any Infrastructure Pod Pod Pod Pod Pod Pod Red Hat Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Registry Edge Physical Virtual CoreOS CoreOS CoreOS Infrastructure Optimied for Intel® Architecture Public Cloud Private Cloud Managed Cloud Software-defined storage, network, and hybrid-cloud infrastructure Intel® Memory and Storage Technologies Intel® Ethernet Adapters Intel® Xeon® Intel® Optane™ Intel® Optane™ Intel® Ethernet Intel® QuickAssist Scalable Processor Persistent Memory SSD Products Technology Figure 1. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, which is Figure 2. Enterprises can use Red Hat OpenShift optimized for Intel® technologies, helps customers develop, Container Platform to develop, deploy, and manage deploy, and manage innovative applications. innovative applications. Solution Brief | Cloud-Native, Hybrid-Multicloud Platform: Red Hat OpenShift with Data Services Powered by Intel® Technology 3 Accelerate and Simplify Application Development Sample Use Case: Modern applications have a lot of moving parts, and there Hybrid-Multicloud Data Analytics from are many different concepts developers need to be aware of. Data Center Cloud to Edge This complexity can slow down innovation. OperatorHub (see To illustrate the value of the Red Hat OpenShift Figure 3) is an easy-to-use catalog of operators (a method Container Platform on Intel® technologies, consider of packaging, deploying, and managing a Kubernetes-native the following example use case. A financial fraud application) from the Kubernetes community and Red Hat detection use case built on Red Hat OpenShift can use partners. data analytics and AI to analyze patterns in historical Developers and Kubernetes administrators can use credit card transactions to accurately predict whether OperatorHub to gain automation advantages while enabling a credit card or banking transaction is fraudulent or the portability of the services across Kubernetes environments. not. Beyond financial services, the example can be