Red Hat OpenShift 4.7 Blurs The Line Between VMs And Containers

Red Hat announced the release of OpenShift 4.7, the enterprise container management platform built on Kubernetes 1.20.

One of the prominent features of OpenShift’s latest release is OpenShift Virtualization that brings the ability to orchestrate both virtual machines and containers. The platform makes VMs first-class citizens allowing the customers to mix and match legacy and modern workloads. 

According to Red Hat, OpenShift Virtualization combines two technologies into a single management platform so organizations take advantage of the simplicity and speed of containers and Kubernetes while still benefiting from the applications and services that have been architected for virtual machines.

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