<p>Red Hat has goosed its locally deployable platform cloud to version 1.2, bringing a host of improvements.</p><p>The upgrades to OpenShift Enterprise were announced on Wednesday, and see the company broaden the range of modifications possible for its application containers which Red Hat rather charmingly calls "cartridges".</p><p>Customers can now add their own frameworks and backends to OpenShift via the Cartridge API, though the open source community has already created a platter of pre-integrated containers for technologies such as vert.x, node.js, and the Redis database.</p><p>New features aside from the cartridge customization include custom SSL certifications for application domain aliases, websocket support, Tomcat 7 availability, token-based authentication for enterprise client tools, and various administrative utility scripts such as oo-diagnostics, oo-admin-repair, oo-admin-broker-auth, and oo-admin-broker-cache, among others.</p><p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/10/red_hat_takes_openshift_to_12/">Keep reading...</a></p>