Chapter 1. Overview
Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation is software-defined storage that is optimized for container environments. It runs as an operator on OpenShift Container Platform to provide highly integrated and simplified persistent storage management for containers.
Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation is integrated into the latest Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to address platform services, application portability, and persistence challenges. It provides a highly scalable backend for the next generation of cloud-native applications, built on a technology stack that includes Red Hat Ceph Storage, the Rook.io Operator, and NooBaa’s Multicloud Object Gateway technology.
Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation is designed for FIPS. When running on RHEL or RHEL CoreOS booted in FIPS mode, OpenShift Container Platform core components use the RHEL cryptographic libraries submitted to NIST for FIPS Validation on only the x86_64, ppc64le, and s390X architectures. For more information about the NIST validation program, see Cryptographic Module Validation Program. For the latest NIST status for the individual versions of the RHEL cryptographic libraries submitted for validation, see Compliance Activities and Government Standards.
Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation provides a trusted, enterprise-grade application development environment that simplifies and enhances the user experience across the application lifecycle in a number of ways:
- Provides block storage for databases.
- Shared file storage for continuous integration, messaging, and data aggregation.
- Object storage for cloud-first development, archival, backup, and media storage.
- Scale applications and data exponentially.
- Attach and detach persistent data volumes at an accelerated rate.
- Stretch clusters across multiple data-centers or availability zones.
- Establish a comprehensive application container registry.
- Support the next generation of OpenShift workloads such as Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Internet of Things (IoT).
- Dynamically provision not only application containers, but data service volumes and containers, as well as additional OpenShift Container Platform nodes, Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes and other infrastructure services.
1.1. About this release
Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.16 (RHSA-2024:4591) is now available. New enhancements, features, and known issues that pertain to OpenShift Data Foundation 4.16 are included in this topic.
Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.16 is supported on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform version 4.16. For more information, see Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation Supportability and Interoperability Checker.
For Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation life cycle information, refer to the layered and dependent products life cycle section in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Life Cycle Policy.
