Chapter 3. Changes and improvements
These are some notable changes introduced in Red Hat OpenShift Local 2.14.
3.1. Notable enhancements
Red Hat OpenShift Local brings a minimal, preconfigured OpenShift Container Platform 4 cluster or Podman container runtime to your local notebook or desktop computer for development and testing purposes. Red Hat OpenShift Local has a Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine that supports native hypervisors for Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows 10.
- Red Hat OpenShift Local is designed for local development and testing on an OpenShift 4 cluster or Podman container runtime. To run an OpenShift 3 cluster locally, see Red Hat Container Development Kit.
3.2. Technology Preview
Support for these features falls under the Technology Preview Features Support Scope.
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Red Hat OpenShift Local 2.14 includes the ability to create a custom bundle based on the currently running cluster with the
crc bundle generatecommand. This command, its parameters, and behavior might change in incompatible ways in future releases.
3.3. Notable changes
- Red Hat OpenShift Local 2.14 provides OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.1 as the embedded OpenShift version.
- Red Hat OpenShift Local 2.14 provides Podman 4.3.1.
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The
crc oc-envandcrc podman-envcommands work on PowerShell Core. See commit. -
The
crc podman-env --rootoutput adds the missing--rootto the printed instructions. See issue #3492.