Red Hat Launches OpenShift 4.22, Adding Confidential AI and AWS Cost Cuts
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Updated · InfoWorld · Jul 15
Red Hat Launches OpenShift 4.22, Adding Confidential AI and AWS Cost Cuts
3 articles · Updated · InfoWorld · Jul 15
Summary
OpenShift 4.22 is now generally available, with Red Hat positioning the release around lower cloud spending, tighter security and simpler management of virtualized workloads.
Version 4.22 hardens the platform with a minimal Universal Base Image, generally available confidential containers on bare metal, and a confidential AI technology preview that isolates sensitive workloads in cryptographically protected memory and CPU.
New virtualization features include EVPN integration for user-defined networks, multi-volume VM snapshots for crash-consistent backups, and two-node OpenShift with fencing for resilient edge deployments.
On AWS, Red Hat made its Karpenter build generally available for OpenShift Service hosted control planes and added EC2 Spot Instance support for fault-tolerant workloads to reduce infrastructure costs.
The release also adds the JobSet operator to coordinate distributed training and LLM fine-tuning, aiming to improve utilization of expensive GPU capacity.