Red Hat OpenShift 4.14

We are delighted to announce that the release now includes the general availability of hosted control planes on bare metal. This feature offers a 3x reduction in infrastructure costs by hosting multiple cluster control planes as workloads on the hosting service’s cluster nodes. Additionally, it brings about twice as fast provisioning times, heightened reliability, and increased resiliency.

Unlike a standalone cluster where some of the Kubernetes services in the control plane operate as systemd services, control planes are deployed as just another workload. They can be scheduled on any available nodes placed in their dedicated namespaces. Hosted control planes on bare metal are facilitated through the multicluster engine for Kubernetes operator version 2.4.

Furthermore, hosted control planes with OpenShift Virtualization are set to be generally available in the upcoming weeks. This allows you to run hosted control planes and OpenShift Virtualization virtual machines on the same underlying base OpenShift cluster. This integration enables the simultaneous management of virtual machine workloads alongside container workloads, optimizing resource utilization by consolidating multiple hosted control planes and hosted clusters in the same underlying bare metal infrastructure.