Atomic Enterprise Platform

Based on the world’s leading enterprise Linux, Red Hat Atomic Enterprise Platform provides the foundation for production scale container deployments, utilizing the same core enabling technologies as Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3, including Docker as a Linux container format, and Kubernetes for container orchestration.

For more information read the press release.

Differences from Openshift v3

The following features are not provided with Atomic Enterprise, but are with OpenShift v3:

  • STI (Source-To-Image builder)
  • UI (web console)
  • Docker Builder

Atomic Enterprise will be introduced with a series of early access releases. This document provides an overview of the training materials for each release and what that release covers.

Work in progress

Early Access Program based on Openshift v3

The following is an overview of the Atomic Enterprise (AE) features covered in Early Access Program training:

  • Installation and configuration of AE and atomic-sdn
  • Adding nodes to the master
  • Extensive command line use
  • Basic HTTP/S (only) routing.
  • Work with supplied example applications
  • User authentication
  • Project quotas (display)
  • Complex / Tiered app deployment
  • Arbitrary docker image deployment
  • Ansible-based installer (non-interactive)
  • Improvements and enhancements in the CLI
  • "Regions" and "Zones"
  • Quota enforcement
  • Templates from the console
  • Beginnings of user/team management
  • Internal service DNS
  • Expanded documentation/explanations
  • Integrated sdn into OpenShift
    • No separate openshift-sdn-node and openshift-sdn-master packages or services You should remove openshift-sdn-master and openshift-sdn-node packages or preferably reprovision your environment when installing Beta 4
    • Openvswitch based implementation provided via 'openshift-sdn-ovs' plugin package and configuring networkPluginName: redhat/openshift-ovs-subnet on master and nodes. Ansible does this for you by default. [//]: # (- Web console and project basics) [//]: # (- Rollback / Activate) [//]: # (- "integration" / webhooks)

The specific documentation is here.