Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 brings Kubernetes to Oracle Database Appliance

Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 brings Kubernetes to Oracle Database Appliance What is Oracle Database Appliance? Why Red Hat OpenShift on Oracle Database Appliance? Core Benefits Get started Looking ahead Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform | Product Trial About the author Marcos Entenza More like this Refactoring isn’t just technical—it’s an economic hedge Introducing Red Hat build of Podman Desktop: Enterprise-ready local container development environments Do We Want A World Without Technical Debt? | Compiler Avoiding Failure In Distributed Databases | Code Comments Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 continues to expand the reach of enterprise Kubernetes into Oracle's infrastructure portfolio. Our expanded Oracle Cloud Infrastructure support in OpenShift 4.20 brings OpenShift to Oracle's distributed and edge cloud services. We now extend support to another key Oracle offering: Oracle Database Appliance (ODA). Oracle Database Appliance is an engineered system designed to simplify Oracle Database deployments for small to medium organizations and distributed environments. ODA combines optimized hardware and software into a single appliance that delivers end-to-end automation, high availability with Oracle Real Application Clusters, and reduced licensing costs by allowing Oracle Database licensing to start from as few as two CPU cores. It is widely adopted across industries where organizations need reliable database infrastructure without the complexity and overhead of building and managing it themselves. Bringing OpenShift to ODA creates a compelling opportunity for organizations that already rely on Oracle Database Appliance as the foundation for their database workloads. Instead of managing separate infrastructure for containerized applications, teams can now run OpenShift alongside their Oracle databases on the same appliance, consolidating their footprint while maintaining the operational simplicity that ODA is known for. This combination benefits Red Hat and Oracle customers in several ways. Organizations can modernize their application layer by deploying cloud-native workloads on OpenShift while keeping their critical Oracle databases where they are. Minimized latency : Applications running in OpenShift containers benefit from high-speed, co-located connectivity to Oracle databases, which is vital for transactional and data-intensive workloads. Footprint consolidation : Reduce hardware sprawl by running your entire modern application stack, from the Kubernetes orchestration layer to the data layer on the same appliance.