Red Hat Cloud Product Summary...Go for Red Hat !

Red Hat is an innovative technology company with OPEN-SOURCE components for the LINUX operating system, and related programs into a distribution package that can easily be ordered and implemented for building your private cloud environment.

Red Hat can even help you securely deploy container-based applications anywhere from bare-metal to cloud environments easily.

No one knows better more about Linux than Red Hat. They are 2nd largest contributor to the Docker and Kubernetes projects along with cloud native foundation, and Open source is in their Jeans.

The Red Hat versatile product portfolio enables enterprise application deploy across on premise, virtual, private cloud, and public clouds environment easily with scale.

1. Red Hat - Openstack 

• OSP - OpenStack deployment mechanism
• 1 server = 1 director machine -> helps deploying OSP environment, 1 Subscription- every OpenStack node (controller as well as compute)
• 1 physical server = 1 Node, Pay for Socket (CPUs)

Recommendation:

• Standard deployment with 11 Nodes (3 Controller nodes (for L3 HA, HA make n/w highly available), 1 Management node, 7 Compute node), later you can add more compute nodes
• Min. You can have 3 Controller nodes and 3 Compute Nodes
• Management Node - Managing OpenStack and Scaling Compute
• Neutron - Gateway and DHCP, assign Neutron gateway to compute nodes
• Controller node - additionally does routing and Load balancing functionalities

2 Red Hat - Enterprise Linux (RHEL, an operating system)

•  It is a great operating system for:

- Functionality

- Performance

- Integration

- Long-term stability

3. Red Hat - Cloud forms

•  Orchestration management software manages OpenStack and other cloud stuff (AWS, Azure)
• Manage workloads
• Force policies on infrastructure - every machine need to have this PATCH for security compliance
• Make self-service portal

4. Red Hat - Satellite

• Seamlessly manage your environment, best bread management solution

It

- Automate

- Maintain

- Updates and,

- Processes - To free up valuable IT resources time.

• Install upgrade packages 
• Updates Hardware profiles for largest systems
• It manages to fixes bugs
• Holds Red Hat Subscription
• Centrally storing configuration channel, Private + Public
• Scheduling capabilities — package upgrades, adding remote commands
• Looks at system subscription status 

5. Red Hat - Ceph Storage

• It is mainly an Object Storage
• Object storage device
• Which uses a Shared storage
• Designed for a Highly available and Fault tolerant in Prod. Environment
• It makes sure 3 copies always consistent across 3 nodes for a single set of data (i.e. called Self healing)
• A bit Costly, if u need 1 GB data, you need 3GB space ( because it replicates 3 times)….But it prevent data loss, and it is Good for performance
• Handles Peta bytes of data
• Gluster is Block storage, Ceph can be used for block storage.

 6. Red Hat - Virtulization

•  Red Hat enterprise virtualisation based on KVM
• It is a great virtualised product

7. Red Hat - OpenShift— A Container platform ( Linux containers -- packaging your applications)

• It is a Kubernetes based container application development platform
• Containers - All Guests runs on a single OS kernel, lightweight implementation, one time OS upgrade ( versus to other Platforms-> base plus Guest os upgrades)
• Rescheduling + Maintaining environment for Containers, run Docker + Kubernetes
• Registering services included

8. Red Hat Insight

• Predictive analytics tool enabling customers managing evolving their IT environments
• Allows employees to fix technical issues before they impact your environment—avoiding costly downtime

9. Ansible by Red Hat

• Automates software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment
• Ansible is agentless, so there's no software to install on the things you're automating
• Most popular automation tool in GitHub.
• Ansible play book written in YAML

10. Red Hat - JBoss Middleware - (An Enterprise application Platform)

• It is a Red Hat Middleware platform
• Developers use to create and integrate applications, and automate processes easily whether it is a Public or Hybrid cloud scenario
• It uses open source development model
• Easy to deploy Dev and Production environment

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