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An end to complex, multi-year contracts with ROSA

T-Systems launches Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA) service, taking the hassle out of infrastructure management 

June 23 2022Madhu Kumar Yeluri

Say hello to simplicity and faster time to market

T-Systems consulting service for ROSA RedHat OpenShift on AWS - removes infrastructure management headaches and eliminates the need for complex, multi-year contracts with an elegant single provider experience. Enterprises can realize a host of economic, compliance, and efficiency benefits. Learn what ROSA is and how it works, the focus of the service, and the roles and responsibilities of the client organization and the key players.     

What is RedHat OpenShift on AWS?

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OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) is a full PaaS product based on kubernetes (container orchestrator) and well proven RedHat ecosystem and best practices offering a trusted environment for enterprise workloads across hybrid cloud environments and providers. Using Red Hat OpenShift, the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) manages containerized services and workloads across multiple hosts. The service includes management tools for deploying, monitoring, and scaling containerized apps in an automated way. 

RedHat OpenShift on AWS in brief  

The Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is a turnkey application and enterprise Kubernetes platform. The T-Systems consulting service for ROSA enables organizations to create OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) quickly and easily via the AWS console with seamless access to all AWS services using familiar APIs and tools from Red Hat OpenShift.

Our consulting service for ROSA

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Reference: https://docs.openshift.com/rosa/rosa_architecture/rosa_architecture_sub/rosa-architecture-models.html

As an AWS certified Managed Service Provider, we support our clients with an AWS managed Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA) as an automated provisioning of OpenShift clusters using Terraform as an IaC.

The consulting service for ROSA allows you to focus on delivering value to your end-users. RedHat Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and our consulting experts take care of the underlying platform to save you from the complexity and hassle of infrastructure management. Moreover, given the seamless integration of ROSA with a wide range of AWS analytics, networking, compute, mobile, machine learning, and other AWS services, ROSA lends itself to excellent customer experiences by speeding up the delivery of services.   

Our ROSA service – like cargo on a ship

ROSA is a fully-managed, turnkey application platform that allows you to focus on delivering value to your customers by building and deploying applications. ROSA empowers you with all the functional benefits that Kubernetes offers you and much more.

Our ROSA service functions on two levels:

  • Onboarding Consulting (focusing on AWS infrastructure and OpenShift expertise)
  • Automated provisioning of OpenShift clusters using Terraform

Our ROSA consulting service is focused on: 

The advanced element of our managed ROSA service primarily focuses on the following aspects:

  • Support seamless integration into AWS native services and our AWS managed cloud service ecosystem (e.g., monitoring, audit logs, billing, and provisioning)
  • Our consultancy power allows us to provide customers with value-added services. Key areas are security, networking, performance, and support of customer-specific requirements.

What are the benefits of ROSA?   

Our service brings economic, compliance, and efficiency advantages, including:

  • Cost - ROSA brings elasticity and pay-as-you-go pricing to Red Hat OpenShift through a new Red Hat subscription. It eliminates the need for complex, multi-year contracts and enables companies to tailor Red Hat OpenShift on AWS to their business needs.
  • Simplicity - With ROSA, companies can now access a Red Hat OpenShift subscription with billing and support directly from AWS. This gives the simplicity of a single provider experience and frees organizations from the procurement and operational complexities associated with having two separate providers. In addition, cluster deployment is easily possible through API & CLI
  • Compliance - ROSA meets important compliance guidelines, including SOC 2ISO 27001, and PCI security standards.
  • Quicker Time to Market – As an OpenShift managed by Red Hat, ROSA enables customers to easily change or add a specific application function because they don‘t have to consider other functions. This means effective DEVOPS and faster time-to-market. 

ROSA – the roles and responsibilities

While Red Hat and Amazon Web Services (AWS) manage the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, T-Systems and the customer share certain responsibilities. The ROSA services are accessed remotely, created in customer-owned AWS accounts, hosted on public cloud resources, and have an underlying platform and data security that Red Hat owns. The customer, Red Hat, and AWS share responsibility for the monitoring and maintenance of a Red Hat OpenShift Service on the AWS cluster.

For a detailed overview of responsibilities for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, click here.

Wrapping Up

Adopting cloud-native applications is the key to business agility and success. And given that cloud-native applications like ROSA use reusable and discrete components, it accelerates the development and deployment process and speeds time-to-market. Moreover, as our ROSA consulting service is supported by our CKA certified professionals, we encourage our customers to adapt to microservices architecture, where the focus is on building new applications while also supporting the modernization of existing ones. All processes reflect best practices and are fully optimized for cloud computing and agility.  

About the author
Madhu Kumar Yaluri – Principal Cloud Architect

Madhu Kumar Yeluri

Principal Cloud Architect, T-Systems International GmbH

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