Actionable disconnected cluster analysis, available now with pen drive powered by Red Hat Lightspeed

What happened

Actionable disconnected cluster analysis, available now with pen drive powered by Red Hat Lightspeed, Red Hat Blog announced. Telecommunications providers, government agencies, and financial institutions run OpenShift (cloud computing software) in environments that are intentionally air-gapped — and keeping those clusters healthy has always been the hard part. Pen drive is here to fix that. Red Hat is a software company based in Raleigh.

Disconnected or restricted Kubernetes (software that runs and manages applications across many servers) clusters suffer from a common issue: isolation makes them prone to configuration drift and issue buildup over time. This increases the risk of production incidents during Day-2 operations.

Pen drive is a single-Podman image tool that provides a streamlined toolbox for cluster state analysis. It delivers an offline version of Red Hat Lightspeed advisor, enhanced with over 1,000 proactive recommendations for debugging cluster architecture, scalability, performance, and day-to-day maintenance.

Pen drive also contains Cluster Compare capabilities, as part of Red Hat OpenShift, for blueprint-based cluster drift analysis and partner recommendations. In this mode, the tool executes a targeted set of commands to provide basic cluster health analysis.

Key facts

• Pen drive also — includes: Cluster Compare capabilities, as part of Red Hat OpenShift, for blueprint-based cluster drift analysis and partner recommendations