Chapter 1. About this release
The release notes provide high-level coverage of the features that have been implemented in Red Hat Developer Hub 1.1 and document known issues in this release.
Some features within this release may be available as a Technology Preview, providing access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and to provide feedback during the development process.
For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, read Technology Preview Support Scope.
Benefits of Red Hat Developer Hub include:
- Increased developer productivity: Increases productivity by eliminating common organizational challenges, enabling seamless collaboration, and providing clear guidelines for creating, developing, and deploying applications.
- Unified self-service dashboard: Provides development teams with a unified dashboard covering various aspects such as Git, CI/CD, SAST/DAST, Supply Chain, OpenShift/Kubernetes cluster, JIRA, monitoring, API, documentation, and more, facilitated by over 150 plugins. All curated by a platform engineering team, aligning with the company’s best practices.
- Best practices through software templates: Automates organizational best practices by encoding common tasks such as creating new applications, running Ansible jobs, and establishing CI/CD pipelines for production deployment in Git.
- Scalable technical documentation: Code and documentation resides in the same repository, eliminating dependencies on proprietary document systems.
- Efficient onboarding for new developers: New developers quickly adapt and become productive within a short timeframe.
- Robust enterprise Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Empowers administrators to create roles, assign users or groups to roles, and implement robust security policies for enhanced access control.
1.1. Supported platforms
- OpenShift Container Platform 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15
- Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)
- Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)
- Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
- Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- [Technical Preview] Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
1.2. Supported architectures
Containers are available for the following CPU architectures:
- AMD64 and Intel 64 (x86_64)
1.3. Upgrading the Red Hat Developer Hub Helm Chart
You can upgrade to a new version of Red Hat Developer Hub by using:
OpenShift web console
- In the Developer perspective, click Helm to open the Helm Releases tab.
- Click the three dots next to the Helm release entry and select Upgrade.
- In the Upgrade Helm Release page, select the version of Developer Hub that you want to upgrade to from the chart version drop-down list.
Click Upgrade.
NoteYou must wait while the resources in the older versions are deleted and newer versions of the Developer Hub pods are launched.
- Close all open Developer Hub web pages, and log in again to verify that the upgrade was successful.
OpenShift CLI
Log in to the OpenShift cluster as the cluster administrator and switch to the
devhubproject.oc login -u <user> -p <password> https://api.<HOSTNAME>:6443 oc project devhub
For a new version of the Developer Hub helm chart, run the following upgrade command:
helm upgrade -i rhdh -f new-values.yml \ openshift-helm-charts/redhat-developer-hub --version 1.1.4
NoteYou can also provide extra values to the chart by creating a
new-values.ymlfile on your workstation with values that override the attributes in the installed chart or by adding new attributes.
