Open-source Linux software company Red Hat Inc. on Wednesday announced an update to its OpenShift Container Platform, with new features that include support for dynamic storage provisioning for both local and remote applications.

Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform is deployed on-premises as a Platform-as-a-Service product, and enables enterprises to run apps built on Docker application containers using Kubernetes for orchestration.

Version 3.4 of the platform uses the software-defined file storage system, Red Hat Gluster Storage, to enable container-native dynamic provisioning storage on the fly. What this means is that developers can allocate storage as and when it’s needed and deploy it with minimal fuss. Previously, developers would have had to involve an administrator to achieve this, Red Hat said.

“The latest version of our flagship container application platform goes a step beyond simply creating and deploying applications by addressing the growing storage needs of both stateful and stateless applications across the hybrid cloud, allowing for coexistence of modern and future-forward workloads on a single, enterprise-ready platform,” said Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager of OpenShift at Red Hat.

Another new update in the OpenShift Container Platform is improved multi-tenancy capabilities, which has been made possible via Kubernetes namespaces. The platform now sports a revised web console that allows development teams to separately search for project details and manage project membership.

Finally, Red Hat said users will now have access to new reference guides for running the OpenShift Container Platform on different kinds of infrastructure, including OpenStack, VMware, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Engine and Microsoft Azure.

The company said OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 is available now via the Red Hat Customer Portal, either as a standalone product or as a pre-integrated offering with its Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Cloud Suite, Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Virtualization solutions.

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