Red Hat adds partners and new pricing to OpenShift

At its AWS Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas,Red Hat has introduced a number of new developments, including the expansion of its OpenShift partner ecosystem so that it  offers additional services, and a new pricing structure for fully supported public PaaS offering.

The expansion of the OpenShift partner ecosystem adds several new partners that are intended to deliver on the company’s vision of providing even more choice to developers across public, private and hybrid cloud deployments.

“Phase2 used OpenShift Silver to set up a first-class continuous integration environment for Drupal by utilizing Jenkins for continuous integration, PHP and Ruby for our build process, and even to run the client's Java-based suite of acceptance tests”

With today’s announcement, Red Hat’s OpenShift Partner Program includes several new ecosystem partners.

AppDynamics isan Application Performance management (APM) company that simplifies the management of complex web applications, including applications based on Red Hat JBoss middleware offerings running on OpenShift.

Continuent provides Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solutions for MySQL and Oracle and enables OpenShift Enterprise customers to take advantage of advanced clustering and database replication for their mission critical applications in an easy-to-deploy and manage integration via OpenShift cartridges.

Kinvey is a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform for enterprise applications which is helping to bring OpenShift’s mobile customers closer to their back-end data by offering various data connectors to vital enterprise business systems.

Netsource Partnersis a software engineering firm developing large-scale online and operational systems for both Fortune 500, mid-sized companies, and academic institutions.

Phase2provides digital content strategy, design and technology together with strategic consulting, development, and design services.

The StrongLoopSuite cartridge provides streamlined integration so OpenShift customers can take advantage of its API tier for connecting enterprise data to devices and browsers, including an open, mobile, BaaS, API development framework, operational console, and certified distribution of Node.js with supported modules.

Vizuriis a software design, development and consulting company that is working with customers to modernise their traditional applications to take advantage of OpenShift.

Pat V. Mackis a leading IT consulting service offering clients a full range of engineering and business solutions, including business process management, project management, engineering architecture, design, development, integration, and support of mission-essential products.

OpenShift offers developers a cloud application platform with a choice of programming languages, frameworks and application lifecycle tools to build and run their applications. The platform provides built-in support for Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, and Java and the capability for developers to add their own. OpenShift also supports many popular frameworks, including Java EE, Spring, Play and Rails.

On the PaaS front, Red Hathas announced the introduction of a new pricing for fully supported public PaaS offering as the OpenShift Online Platform-as-a-Service comes to 14 new countries, and expands gear size offerings for developers.

Red Hat introduced OpenShift Online Silver Tier back in June, giving users access to technical support and additional platform resources from both Red Hat and JBoss developers. Now it is expanding Silver Tier availability to 14 new Eurozone countries, including Greece, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Cyprus and Malta. This brings the total where Silver Tier support is available for developers and application providers to more than 30 countries. 

Additionally, Red Hat is lowering OpenShift Online’s gear/hour pricing by 50 percent and providing additional gear sizes to host larger applications. With this change, gear/hour prices now range from just $0.02 cents to $0.10.

In addition to Small (512 MB) and Medium (1GB) gears, developers can now choose Large (2GB) gears, offering them a larger memory option to run their most demanding applications. 

Red Hat has also added support for group membership and user management to enhance multi-developer collaboration. Other recent updates include enhanced support for environment variables and updates to multiple OpenShift cartridges including Python, Node.js and Postgresql.

OpenShift Online enables developers to quickly build, launch and host applications in the public cloud. The elastic, multi-language, PaaS architecture of OpenShift Online automates the provisioning, management and scaling of applications so developers can focus on writing the code for these applications for their business idea.