Extra tags: Digital Transformation
Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced sweeping updates throughout its portfolio of application services. These updates deliver a more seamless and unified experience for application development, delivery, integration, and automation across hybrid cloud environments.
The future of applications is hybrid
According to Red Hat’s 2022 Global Tech Outlook, hybrid cloud—where organisations use a mix of IT environments, from on-premises environments to public clouds and, increasingly, multiple clouds—remains the leading cloud strategy among enterprise organisations. The ability to consistently develop, deploy, and operate applications on any cloud, using the same set of tools and operational best practises, is not only a hallmark of modern, cloud-native application development, but also a critical component of today's digital transformation initiatives. With hybrid cloud and multi-cloud strategies on the rise, developers require dependable and interoperable application development capabilities that allow them to select the best solution for each task.
The modularity of the Red Hat Application Services portfolio contributes to a unified environment for application development, delivery, integration, and automation. The combination of the Quarkus platform with the connectivity capabilities of Apache Camel, the intelligent decisioning of Kogito, API management with Red Hat 3scale API Management, and the power of Red Hat OpenShift enables Java developers to fully embrace cloud-and Kubernetes-native development.
Given the strategic and competitive importance of these modernisation efforts in a post-pandemic world, industry analyst firm IDC notes that organisations have accelerated their investments in digital and predicts that “by 2023, one in two companies will generate more than 40% of their revenues from digital products and services, as compared to one in three in 2020.”
Red Hat assists organisations in delivering on these modernisation and transformation initiatives and quickly creating new applications with the flexibility and choice inherent in hybrid and multi cloud strategies. This includes a diverse set of tools aimed at providing the best cloud-native developer experience possible via Red Hat OpenShift, the industry's leading enterprise Kubernetes platform.
Strengthening the foundation for tomorrow’s Java applications with Quarkus
The open source Quarkus project offers developers innovative capabilities for building and extending their Java applications in a Kubernetes-native world. With a unique compile-time boot process, strong performance, and tight integration with Red Hat OpenShift, the Red Hat build of Quarkus is an ideal platform for building the next generation of Java applications and serves as the foundation for Red Hat Application Services.
The latest release of Quarkus strengthens this foundation with new features for developers, including:
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Continuous testing for near-instant feedback while coding;
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A new command-line interface (CLI) that helps simplify common development and deployment tasks;
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An updated and intuitive graphical user interface (GUI); and
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Out-of-the-box services that simplify creating and connecting to popular databases, message queues, and more.
Quarkus features a vast library of more than 400 extensions for configuring, booting, and integrating frameworks into a Quarkus application. New application service releases include new extensions that help businesses build for cloud scale by optimising key integration and process automation capabilities, such as Apache Camel extensions for Quarkus, which bring the power of Apache Camel connectivity and data transformation to Quarkus applications. Using these extensions, developers can more easily and quickly build fast, flexible, connected, and lightweight cloud-native applications on Quarkus.
Connect applications and data across hybrid infrastructures
Applications running in hybrid environments necessitate more modular and distributed architectures, which necessitate more cloud-native integration capabilities that connect the applications while also protecting data shared between them. Application programming interfaces (APIs) and microservices are critical components of cloud-native applications that serve as the foundation for developers to build these applications. Red Hat 3scale API Management, which is included with Red Hat Integration, enables organisations to share application logic and data more effectively with standard interfaces, both within the enterprise and with external customers and partners.
New features introduced in the latest release of Red Hat 3scale API Management include:
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Support for a new WebAssembly (WASM) extension that allows communication between Red Hat 3scale API Management and OpenShift Service Mesh, providing customers with a powerful combination for integrating, controlling, and managing APIs and microservices in a Kubernetes-native environment;
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Developers can use a modular approach to configure API management proxies directly with Istio Envoy based service mesh for improved connectivity and control across cloud-native applications.