With the growth of the cloud market, developers choose PaaS because of its flexibility and speed. Red Hat often paves the way for enterprises to use to create applications and to use an open cloud application platform that best fit their business needs. At this year Red Hat Summit, Red Hat addresses the current DevOps challenges facing the adoption of enterprise and provides a cloud application platform with built-in secure and scalable multi-tenancy, proven enterprise-grade application containers, middleware services and the latest technologies.

Open source community light up the cloud

Senior Vice President of the Application Platform Products Business Group for Red Hat, Craig Muzilla in an interview with Stu Miniman and John Furrier said that the open source community has been going through a major upheaval and that transformation has centered on Cloud services. OpenStack is leading the community and Red Hat embraced the concept with attracting developers to the open source community in order to maintain viability and relevance in the marketplace.

Muzilla said Red Hat often fosters and curates within the open source community by looking beyond projects that are receiving copious amounts of attention and identifying underserved areas of development.

Brian Stevens, Executive Vice President and CTO of Red Hat discussed how the open source community will effectively erase any delineation between infrastructure and platform, converging them into one idea, and how he sees the role of open source in a world becoming increasingly data-centric.

Stevens said that OpenStack is the de facto standard for industries to achieve business growth. The beauty of the open and flexible OpenStack platform is that it gives developers the necessary tools to create cloud applications or enhance existing environments, eliminating the exorbitant cost of licenses for users and fear of becoming dependent on the platform or manufacturer.

According to Stevens, the whole infrastructure category and platform category are going to be completely obliterated. He added Red Hat and the open source community are driving the innovation. Red Hat believes that by offering an open-source platform will usher the era of cloud applications.

DevOps for delivery standard practice

Anything which helps developers is usually a good sign, and Gene Kim, founder of Tripwire, Inc. and co-author of The Phoneix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps and Helping Your Business Win in an interview with John Furrier and Stu Miniman on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE said that DevOps will create a shift in how business at all levels will be conducted.

“What we are observing is the emergence of continuous innovation and continuous delivery as a standard practice,” he noted. “It’s not just for Amazon and Google and Etsy and Netflix. This is for any developer that wants to have fun doing their job.”

Kim believes to achieve continuous innovation and delivery, a standard practice has to be employed. He then highlighted how practice is helping IT and DevOps not only driving their businesses to increased agility and reliability, but the lifecycle of the developer is moving at a faster pace as well.

As the open source partner ecosystem continues to expand, both Furrier and Stu Miniman agreed that these platform is now a tier one frontrunner platform for software development. Both also agreed that the most important aspect for the continued growth and success of the open source will be the attraction of developers to the community.

Cloud innovation is happening first in open source

Red Hat is looking to streamline application development and deployment through the use of Linux Containers. Red Hat’s solution to this is to use Container technology, such as that in the Linux kernel or from the Docker project, coupled with a stripped-down version of its upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 operating system, which is optimized as a Container-host platform. Red Hat is collaborating with Docker to make sure that its Container technology works with Project Atomic, and that any changes are fed back into the relevant open-source projects.

Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat CEO, shared his view is that cloud computing and web 2.0 has led to the increased amount of code developed by the open source community. DevOps, continuous deployment–they all came from web 2.0 which is open source.

“Developers want to build their own personal brand and reputation, you can’t do that if you’re not contributing to code people can see,” Whitehurst said. “Companies want their developers to contribute, because it’s a way to keep the best and the brightest.”

He added Web 2.0 companies had applications intended to run into a cloud environment. Red Hat’s business model is taking the power of the open source model. The company’s main focus area is OpenStack but it is also looking at Hadoop and NoSQL.

Meanwhile, Red Hat also announced OpenShift Marketplace, a one-stop shop to help customers to find and trial applications running on its OpenShift cloud platform. The OpenShift Marketplace connects Red Hat’s OpenShift Platform as a Service directly to OpenShift Online users, where they can obtain information and tools to find the right fit for building cloud applications.