Connecting and orchestrating different clouds, including those in a hybrid environment, will no longer be a problem for organizations of various sizes and ambitious goals. With Red Hat Connectivity Link, a solution launched by Red Hat earlier this week, companies can integrate advanced traffic management and role-based control (RBAC) directly into the Kubernetes system, enhancing security and compliance across the IT sector.
Additionally, thanks to Red Hat Connectivity Link, application development teams and platform engineering can manage application connectivity in single or multi-cluster Kubernetes environments — streamlining the definition, management, and visibility of connectivity configurations and policies. The platform also enables organizations to reduce complexity by consolidating functions such as traffic routing, security, and policy management into a single Kubernetes-native solution.
For Sarwar Raza, Vice President and General Manager of Red Hat's Developer Applications Business Unit, the software represents a breakthrough in how organizations think about their technology journey. "The connectivity of applications within and around infrastructure environments is essential for developing and scaling native cloud workloads such as generative AI applications. Through Red Hat Connectivity Link, platform engineers and application developers can streamline operations, scale more efficiently across various environments, and enhance security and compliance management across multiple infrastructure layers using new native cloud standards," he stated.
Reducing complexity through a unified approach
The adoption of native cloud architectures, containers, and Kubernetes has driven an explosion of applications, services, and endpoints. In turn, this increased both the need and the challenges of configuring and governing connections between these components. Applications can encompass Kubernetes clusters, data centers, and cloud providers. Technological advancements in generative AI (gen AI) and edge deployments are bringing more complexity and introducing new requirements for security and traffic management. With many organizations running applications in on-premises environments and multiple clouds, and deploying containers and virtual machines, managing application connectivity becomes complicated, costly, and error-prone.
Historically, organizations need to implement individual tools for tasks such as API security, rate limiting, service meshes, and application networking. Having multiple solutions requires specific product skills and time spent integrating these solutions with each other and with the Kubernetes environment. This leads to layers of complexity in the setup and management of these environments. The Red Hat Connectivity Link provides a new pathway for application connectivity with a unified environment for development teams and a platform to manage connectivity through a single solution.
Based on theKuadrant open source projectThe Red Hat Connectivity Link is a native Kubernetes solution designed to provide a seamless experience and an efficient approach to managing application traffic. He leverages the new default Kubernetes API Gateway and the widely adopted Envoy proxy technology to create integrated functionality and management experience for single-cluster and multi-cluster Kubernetes environments. Red Hat Connectivity Link's approach addresses the connectivity challenges faced by modern IT organizations with a single, integrated solution instead of a complex, layered, and multi-product approach.
OpenShift users can use Red Hat Connectivity Link for a more consistent and efficient connectivity management experience across all clusters. With support for orchestrators like Istio and OpenShift Service Mesh, users have greater compatibility and flexibility in managing application connectivity across a wide range of Kubernetes environments.
Availability
The Red Hat Connectivity Link is now available. More information can be foundhereThe Red Hat Connectivity Link is now available. More information can be foundhereThe Red Hat Connectivity Link is now available. More information can be foundhere.
