Microsoft Azure Arc will support OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

In summarizing the Ignite 2019 event, Microsoft officially announced Azure Arc, a solution that allows you to deploy Azure services anywhere and expand Azure management on any infrastructure. In other words, Azure Arc is the solution for customers who want to simplify complex and distributed environments.

With Azure Arc, you can manage Linux and Windows servers, as well as Kubernetes clusters on any infrastructure, including on-premise, redundant systems, and on a variety of clouds. In addition, Azure management processes such as Azure Resource Manager, Azure Shell, Azure Portal, API, and Azure Policy can now be used for all infrastructures, not just Azure as before.

Microsoft also said that Azure Arc will soon be adding support for both OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in the near future. With this support, customers will be able to centrally manage and control RHEL servers and OpenShift clusters. In the coming months, Microsoft plans to add support packages for advanced policies such as expiring certificate reports, password management, SSH keys management, and disk encryption enforcement. Here are some utilities that Red Hat customers should note:

1. Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers servers, either as Azure virtual machines or directly as resources managed by Azure Arc.
2. Ability to run Azure data services, such as Azure SQL Managed Instance, on the Kubernetes OpenShift platform.
3. The expansion of Azure Arc will allow Servers to add more cloud utilities to existing SQL Servers.