Azure Red Hat OpenShift adds hosted control planes
Azure Red Hat OpenShift now lets you try hosted control planes in public preview. This setup runs the Kubernetes control plane—the brains coordinating app deployment—in a Microsoft-managed Azure account, not your own. The change could mean lower costs and simpler management since you don't have to pay for or maintain the control plane servers yourself. You handle only the worker nodes for your applications.
- Control plane now managed by Microsoft, not you
- Red Hat SREs handle ongoing maintenance
- Faster deployment and autoscaling possible
- You only manage and pay for worker nodes
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