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Red Hat aims to improve application container integration services
The rapid growth of cloud-based software-as-a-service systems, the Internet of Things and new data streams is forcing organizations to deliver innovative new services faster. As a result, application containers and architectures based on application programming interfaces, or APIs, that tap into software components have emerged to help speed distributed applications into production.
With that in mind, open-source enterprise software firm Red Hat Inc. on Tuesday announced a series of container integration services on its OpenShift platform, its public cloud application development and hosting platform, that are designed to link applications with data.
The main enhancement is the latest release of Red Hat’s Jboss Fuse middleware on OpenShift, which provides distributed integration capabilities on platforms running Docker containers and the open-source Kubernetes container manager. Red Hat said the latest version of JBoss, based on the open-source integration framework Apache Camel, allows developers to build and integrate applications with microservices, or small pieces of applications, in a way that allows for much faster scaling-up of services.
In addition, Jboss Fuse on OpenShift helps to simplify “the transition for customers looking to adopt containerized infrastructure for existing applications and workloads,” Red Hat said, thereby enabling the “development of custom-fit containerized applications.”
By linking distributed application with data streams, Red Hat hopes to be at the forefront of the trend among enterprises to adopt microservices as a way of delivering apps faster. The company cites a cloud adoption survey published by cloud management firm RightScale Inc. earlier this month, which shows that 38 percent of information executives want to expand the use of containers in production. Red Hat’s API-first approach is targeted at those types of executives, who are looking to speed the transition to container-based infrastructure.
Red Hat said customers can adopt an API-first approach to integration by creating, connecting and composing APIs with Apache Camel-based integration microservices and managing those APIs using its Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform, which is integrated with the OpenShift platform.
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