Choice is important to Red Hat and Oracle customers. Today, we are extending our commitment to choice across the hybrid cloud. Previously, we certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and validated Red Hat OpenShift on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute virtual machines (VMs). Now, we’re building on this collaboration by validating Red Hat OpenShift on OCI Compute bare metal instances.
Why Red Hat OpenShift on OCI bare metal?
Red Hat OpenShift is the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes. Bringing this platform to OCI bare metal instances provides more choices for customers who are seeking a customized, more powerful experience on multiple architectures, including Intel, AMD and Ampere.
Ampere-based Arm architecture support on OCI bare metal instances, along with Ampere-based VM support for RHEL and OpenShift, gives customers a range of options designed to meet specific cloud computing needs, such as taking advantage of performance improvements and cost savings. Red Hat OpenShift continues to fully support customers committed to x86 architectures, offered on both Intel and AMD processors.
Red Hat OpenShift on OCI bare metal instances includes integration with OCI Cloud Controller Manager and OCI Container Storage Interface. Both of these components are supported by Oracle for file system and raw block volumes, helping to simplify the experience of deploying OpenShift on OCI bare metal instances.
Continued collaboration for greater hybrid cloud innovation
Red Hat and Oracle share a substantial number of customers in the financial services, telecommunications, government and many other industries. We are committed to working together to support our mutual customers by certifying the latest versions of RHEL and validating new releases of OpenShift on OCI.
In addition, Red Hat and Oracle intend to bring Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization to OCI in the future, enabling organizations to reduce the friction between traditional VMs and cloud-native applications. OpenShift Virtualization provides a single platform to manage existing VM workloads alongside cloud applications and offers a path to modernizing IT operations while maintaining existing investments in virtualization infrastructure.
You can check out what is possible with Red Hat’s sessions on OpenShift Virtualization, OpenShift AI and how Palantir deploys Foundry and AIP using OpenShift and OCI Compute at Oracle CloudWorld 2024 in Las Vegas from September 9-12. While you’re there, visit Red Hat at booth #48 to learn even more about what you can gain with Red Hat OpenShift on OCI.
With Red Hat’s and Oracle’s 20+ years of collaboration around RHEL, our expanding relationship is aimed at supporting the dynamic needs of our global joint customer base. The power and scale of OCI combined with the flexibility and innovation of Red Hat’s hybrid cloud portfolio offers a more unified customer experience, backed by each company’s respective expertise. The combination of modern computing technologies shows our customers a streamlined, simpler path to hybrid cloud innovation.
About the author
Ju Lim works on the core Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments to enable customers to run Red Hat OpenShift anywhere. Ju leads the product management teams responsible for installation, updates, provider integration, and cloud infrastructure.
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