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on security. At the heart of OpenShift is Kubernetes (aka, “kube”), an open source platform and the de facto standard
in container orchestration technology that automates
the manual work of deploying, managing and scaling containerized applications. OpenShift clusters groups of hosts running Linux containers and streamlines development and administration. Moreover, multiple OpenShift clusters can be managed via Red Hat’s Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, whether those exist on AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, some other cloud, on-premise or as a mix.
The advantages of choosing open source can’t be overestimated. As numerous institutions have found, Red Hat’s products and services eliminate costly vendor lock-in and represent the best thinking of the community, which the company participates in, fosters and works with.
Modernizing the campus approach to IT infrastructure for supporting research has never been so urgent. Fortunately, that’s where Red Hat shines — in helping reduce the effort and expense of building, moving and managing workloads, to keep the insights and discoveries coming.
Damien Eversmann is a delivery strategist for higher education, North America public sector, for Red Hat.
ANSIBLE FOR ENTERPRISE AUTOMATION
As colleges and universities have
sought ways to make their processes
more efficient, a lot of them have
turned to the use of Ansible, Red
Hat’s automation platform, which is relevant for
both IT and business users. The idea is simple: Take repetitive tasks that are a time sink and involve infrastructure, applications, networks, security or business functionality, and automate them — whether that’s on-premise, virtual, cloud-based or in a container (or some combination).
There are two ways to deploy automation with Ansible. IT staffers can create tasks for themselves or other users in YAML (Yet Another Markup Language) and run them sequentially in “Playbooks.” Or users can pick what’s needed out of the self-service Ansible Services Catalog.
The Modern Campus:
Security, Automation,
Hybrid Cloud
Tra
nsform the student
experience th
rough innovation.
Download the eBook:
carah.io/TheModernCampus
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