Red Hat announced its latest developments at its open source summit, being held in Boston.
The open source solutions provider said International Airlines Group (IAG) is using Red Hat solutions as the basis of its hybrid cloud platform.
IAG has expanded its use of Red Hat Virtualization to provide the server infrastructure for provisioning new Group-wide services. They have also selected Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure as part of its plans to provide new cloud-based services.
Cloud Infrastructure is an integrated solution for building and managing an open, private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, as the basis for IAG’s OpenStack-based cloud.
The Group has been working with Red Hat since 2003, with British Airways selecting the IT vendor’s Enterprise Linux as its Linux-based platform to support core operational functions, including flight and passenger management.
International Airlines Group was formed in 2011 following the merger of British Airways and Iberia and has since acquired Aer Lingus and Vueling. The core commitment to an open source technology backbone remained, with Red Hat Virtualization now running on more than 600 physical servers and supporting more than 7,500 virtual machines.
In another announcement, the company said Miles & More GmbH, operator of Europe’s largest frequent flyer and awards program, now uses Red Hat’s container and cloud technologies to deliver a scalable and automated Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environment.
Based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Miles & More GmbH is a fully-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa AG. With the program, participants can earn and spend with almost 40 airline partners, including 28 airlines belonging to the Star Alliance, as well as with more than 270 companies such as hotels, rental cars, cruises, banks and insurance providers. Previously, for its interfaces with partners outside of the air travel sector, the company used a middleware solution.
Together with Red Hat, the company developed a new platform based on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to implement innovations more easily in the future. The OpenShift Container Platform provides a more secure and stable platform for container-based deployments without sacrificing current IT investments, enabling mission-critical, traditional applications to coexist alongside new, cloud-native and container-based applications.
Alongside Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Miles & More GmbH has deployed JBoss Fuse, Ansible and JBoss AMQ.
The company further informed that Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Europe’s third largest airport, is also using OpenShift Container Platform deployed across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its on-premise virtualized environment.
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol chose Red Hat to support its needs for a modern and agile platform aligned with its technology vision, including new cloud-native applications and digital services based on open APIs.
