Interactive: OpenShift 4.20 New Features ft. Alan Cowles (E5)

Host: Cedric Clyburn Guest: Alan Cowles Producer: Rohan Venkatram 👉 What you’ll see in this demo: Native BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) support in OpenShift Networking using OVN-Kubernetes How OpenShift 4.20 helps catch potential update issues with oc adm upgrade recommend and oc adm upgrade status commands Insights into AI workloads, virtualization, and hybrid cloud improvements in OpenShift 4.20 Exploration of security enhancements, including post-quantum cryptography support and the Zero Trust Workload Identity Manager Interactive Q&A with Cedric & Alan 🔗 Join the interactive experience: https://www.redhat.com/architect/port... 🎯 Episode Overview: Cedric Clyburn is back with Demo Deep Dive, this time joined by Alan Cowles, Principal Technical Marketing Manager. Alan brings deep expertise in networking, datacenter design, VMware, Red Hat technologies, Kubernetes, and OpenShift, making him the perfect guide to navigate the latest OpenShift 4.20 features. In this episode, you’ll discover how OpenShift 4.20-built on Kubernetes 1.33 and CRI-O 1.33-enables enterprises to innovate faster across hybrid cloud environments while maintaining robust security. From enhanced AI workloads with LeaderWorkerSet and Gateway API inference, to virtualization improvements like CPU load-aware rebalancing and faster live migration, OpenShift 4.20 is designed to support diverse workloads seamlessly. You’ll also see how the platform now supports native BGP routing, simplifying advanced networking use cases previously dependent on MetalLB and the Cluster Network Operator. Plus, OpenShift 4.20 introduces tools to proactively detect potential update issues, helping administrators maintain healthy, up-to-date clusters with confidence. 🔗 Learn more and interact: 📌OpenShift 4.20 Release Notes: https://access.redhat.com/documentati... 📌 Explore more: https://www.redhat.com/en/products/tr... 📌Explore Red Hat OpenShift: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologie... 📌Follow Cedric: https://www.cedricclyburn.com/ 📅 Live Stream: Tuesday, November 25th @ 11am ET ▶️ Watch live or on-demand on @RedHat and @OpenShift #RedHat #OpenShift #OpenShift420 #HybridCloud #AIWorkloads #Virtualization #Kubernetes #BGP #ClusterManagement #cybersecurity 00:00 Meet Alan Coles + What’s New in OpenShift 4.20 02:18 Try It Yourself: Interact Portal & Arcade Interactive Demos 03:04 OpenShift 101: What It Is and Why It Matters 04:05 OpenShift 4.20 Feature Tour Overview (What We’ll Cover) 07:10 Demo 1: Two-Node OpenShift with an Arbiter (Small Footprint HA) 12:11 Inside the Console: Arbiter Node, etcd Quorum & Split-Brain Explained 15:38 Demo 2: Automatic VM Load Balancing via Live Migration (OpenShift Virtualization) 24:17 Quick Fire: Update Pre-Check Before Upgrading Clusters 27:57 Quick Fire: OpenShift Virtualization on ARM (AWS arm64) 29:57 Wrap-Up: Open Source Wins, Links, and What to Watch Next