Google Cloud Puts on its Red Hat

Speaking of Google Cloud, Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform is now available on the cloud computing provider’s marketplace.

Organizations managing multiple clouds need simple ways to deploy and scale automation, especially to free up IT teams to focus on high-value projects, Red Hat said. As such, the Ansible Automation Platform delivers pre-integrated services, including Google Virtual Private Cloud, security groups, load balancers, Google Compute and instance groups. There’s also integrated billing. Red Hat said customers may count Ansible Automation Platform toward any existing enterprise committed spend agreements with Google.

Red Hat also has released OpenShift 4.12. New features support scaling workloads across hybrid clouds without compromising security, Red Hat said. To make good on that claim, Red Hat said that OpenShift 4.12, based on Kubernetes 1.25, introduces three new Operators and an update to the Compliance Operator.

The new Operators are made up of the Security Profiles Operator, the Ingress Node Firewall Operator and the Network Observability Operator. Changes to the Compliance Operator include compliance scans and remedies for detected problems.