Cloud Computing: Red Hat Fortifies RHEL 7 With Docker Support

Grazed from LinuxInsider. Author: Katherine Noyes.

Red Hat on Tuesday rolled out Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, the latest major release of the company’s flagship Linux platform, six months after the software’s beta version made its debut. Among the key new features included in the release are KVM virtualization technology, an improved installation experience, Active Directory/Identity Management integration, and Linux containers as a key application packaging and delivery technology.

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 redefines the enterprise OS because we deliver new tools and technical support to allow *enterprises* to take advantage of Linux containers," Mark Coggin, Red Hat’s senior director of platform product marketing, told LinuxInsider. "This includes distribution of Docker and all of the other features required for namespace isolation, resource management, security and process management," he added…

"Having these tools made available within Red Hat Enterprise Linux and supported by Red Hat will open the door for enterprises to embrace new classes of applications, architectures and deployment models via containers."…

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