Red Hat Connectivity Link Released
January 15, 2025

Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Connectivity Link, a hybrid multicloud application connectivity solution that provides a modern approach to connecting disparate applications and infrastructure.

Red Hat Connectivity Link integrates advanced traffic management, policy enforcement and role-based access control (RBAC) directly within Kubernetes, enhancing security and compliance across multiple layers of application infrastructure. Application development and platform engineering teams can now manage application connectivity across single and multi-cluster Kubernetes environments -- streamlining the definition, management and visibility of connectivity configuration and policies. Red Hat Connectivity Link enables organizations to reduce complexity by consolidating functions such as traffic routing, security and policy management functions into a single Kubernetes-native solution.

Red Hat Connectivity Link provides a new pathway to application connectivity with a unified environment for both development and platform teams to manage connectivity through a single solution.

Based on the open source Kuadrant project, Red Hat Connectivity Link is a Kubernetes-native solution designed to provide a cohesive experience and efficient approach to managing application traffic. It leverages the new Kubernetes-standard Gateway API and the broadly-adopted Envoy proxy technology to create an integrated functionality and management experience for single and multi-cluster Kubernetes environments. Authentication policies, rate limiting, DNS configuration and TLS management are specified through Kubernetes objects; operational data is surfaced through Kubernetes and customizable dashboards. The Red Hat Connectivity Link approach addresses connectivity challenges faced by modern IT organizations with a single, integrated solution rather than a complex, layered, multi-product approach.

Red Hat OpenShift users can use Red Hat Connectivity Link for a more consistent and efficient connectivity management experience across all clusters. With support for orchestrators like Istio and OpenShift Service Mesh, users have greater compatibility and flexibility in managing application connectivity within a wide range of Kubernetes environments.

Sarwar Raza, vice president and general manager, Application Developer Business Unit, Red Hat, said: “Application connectivity, within and across distributed infrastructure environments, is fundamental to developing and scaling cloud-native workloads such as generative AI applications. Red Hat Connectivity Link is an integrated, unified solution that enables platform engineers and application developers to streamline operations, more efficiently scale across multiple environments and enhance security and compliance management across multiple layers of infrastructure using emerging cloud-native standards.”

Red Hat Connectivity Link is now generally available.

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