Chapter 2. New Features

OpenShift Enterprise now supports the following new or updated cartridges:

Users can now set one or more custom environment variables for their applications. Set, view, and remove environment variables with the rhc env commands. See the OpenShift Enterprise User Guide for more information on using environment variables.

OpenShift Enterprise now features an optional Administration Console, providing administrators with a read-only view of their deployment data. Administrators can view gear profiles and resource management, and can receive suggestions on how to improve performance. See the OpenShift Enterprise Deployment Guide for the installation procedure, and the OpenShift Enterprise Administration Guide for usage instructions.

Users can now create multiple domains. See the OpenShift Enterprise User Guide for information on using domains, including creating and maintaining domains, and the OpenShift Enterprise Administration Guide for information on administering domains for users, such as configuring domain settings.

Users can now work collaboratively on applications within a domain. Add another user to your domain with view, edit, or administer access. See the OpenShift Enterprise User Guide for more information on members.

Users can now configure an application's deployment process. Use the rhc configure-app command to enable or disable automatic deployments, deploy from different Git branches, keep deployment metadata, and switch between Git and binary deployments. These new features also enable users to rollback an application to a previous deployment, or deploy using a binary snapshot. See the OpenShift Enterprise User Guide for more information on deployments.

OpenShift Enterprise 2.0 allows external load balancing by introducing pluggable web routing for high-availability instances. See the OpenShift Enterprise Deployment Guide for a more information on external load balancing.