Red Hat Application Foundations
What is Red Hat Application Foundations?
Red Hat Application Foundations provides organizations with a comprehensive set of components to develop and modernize their software. The technologies in Application Foundations have been engineered to help build, deploy, and operate applications with security in mind and at scale across the hybrid cloud. Red Hat Application Foundations can be used with applications that run on premises or in the cloud and when combined with Red Hat OpenShift®, creates a platform that streamlines execution across the entire application life cycle. Red Hat Application Foundations capabilities include:
Application and API connectivity
Share, secure, distribute, and control your APIs across their entire life cycle
Data transformation
Develop and manage services with container-native integration tools
Service composition and orchestration
Accelerate the development and scalability of connected applications and services
Real-time messaging and data streaming
Create, discover, and connect to real-time data streams to unlock event-driven and data analytics patterns
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Secure web applications with SSO based on popular standards such as SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, and OAuth 2.0
Java application frameworks
Provide developers with a set of products, tools, and components for building and maintaining cloud-native applications using lightweight runtimes and frameworks (like Quarkus) for cloud architectures
Business Constraint Solver
Deliver more effective plans and schedules by solving optimization problems in your applications and services
Java Application Servers*
Provide developers with the capabilities to deploy Java EE applications that simply integrate with the existing Java EE services such as databases, queues, and security.
Red Hat Cloud Services help you get there faster
With Red Hat Cloud Services, organizations can choose which parts of their application platform they want to manage internally versus having Red Hat host manage for them. Cloud Services allow organizations to quickly add new capabilities to their applications or offload responsibilities so they can focus on high value initiatives.
Features & benefits
As organizations move to the cloud and containers with Red Hat OpenShift, they gain efficiency and scalability with a consistent application platform to manage hybrid cloud, multicloud, and edge deployments. This enables application teams to innovate with modern cloud-native patterns such as microservices, API first design, data streaming, and event-driven architectures that unlock new capabilities and benefits for their organizations.
Outcomes of using Red Hat Application Foundations
Red Hat Application Foundations helps you create a platform for building and deploying applications that supports:
- Developers by enabling higher productivity and innovation.
- Operations by making code in production more reliable, performant, and scalable.
- Business leaders by enabling agile development, integration and automation.
Develop modern applications
Speed up cloud-native app dev so you can reduce time-to-market and take advantage of containers, modern application patterns and practices like agile, DevOps, and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD).
Optimize existing applications
Improve or update legacy applications and deploy them in a hybrid environment as part of your organization’s journey to cloud operations.


Using Red Hat Application Foundations on Red Hat OpenShift helps you build more reliable and adaptable technologies by supporting a unified application environment platform comprised of:
- Comprehensive frameworks, runtimes and programming languages with the Red Hat Runtimes product group
- Integration solutions with the Red Hat Integration product grouping
Explore related resources
E-book
Cloud-native meets hybrid cloud: A strategy guide
Build application environments for reliability, productivity, and change.
Whitepaper
Red Hat research report: Cloud-native development outlook
Learn why cloud-native is the next phase of modern application development.
Datasheet
Plan your Java application modernization journey
Red Hat® Application Foundations includes frameworks and capabilities to design, build, deploy, connect, scale, and focus on the security of cloud-native applications.
Whitepaper
The business value of a unified application development
One primary challenge for development organizations is to navigate the complex technology environments that new, cloud-native application development and application modernization span.
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