Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat® OpenShift® is an enterprise-ready Kubernetes container platform built for an open hybrid cloud strategy. It provides a consistent application platform to manage hybrid cloud, multicloud, and edge deployments.
What is Red Hat OpenShift?
Red Hat OpenShift is a leading enterprise Kubernetes platform1 that enables a cloud-like experience everywhere it's deployed. Whether it’s in the cloud, on-premise or at the edge, Red Hat OpenShift gives you the ability to choose where you build, deploy, and run applications through a consistent experience. Red Hat OpenShift’s full-stack automated operations and self-service provisioning for developers lets teams work together more efficiently to move ideas from development to production.
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IT leaders are embracing Red Hat OpenShift
85%
of Fortune 500 government and military companies 2
57%
of Fortune 500 logistics and transportation companies 3
62%
of Fortune 500 media and technology companies 4
50%
of Fortune 500 airlines 5
68%
of Fortune 500 commercial banks 6
58%
of Fortune 500 telecom companies 7
Features and benefits
Work with traditional, modernized, and cloud-native applications
Support the most demanding workloads including AI/ML, Java, data analytics, databases, and more. Automate deployment and life-cycle management with our vast ecosystem of technology partners.
Choose the consumption model that fits your needs
Use Red Hat OpenShift cloud services to start developing and deploying apps today, or self-manage your deployment for additional customization.
Support the builder’s journey with the right developer tools
Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced developer, Red Hat’s developer tools portfolio supports a builder’s journey to cloud-native and allows each developer to start where they are.
Start building with Red Hat OpenShift in our developer sandbox
Deploy applications closer to your users and data
Get faster data-driven outcomes and better application experiences anywhere—even at your most remote locations—with Red Hat OpenShift at the edge.
Improve security of the full application life cycle
Decrease your operational risk by shifting security left and automating DevSecOps, using built-in policy templates to enforce security and configuration best practices, and protecting application workloads at runtime.
Learn more about Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security
Gain end-to-end visibility and control for your Kubernetes clusters
Extend the value of Red Hat OpenShift by deploying apps, managing multiple clusters, and enforcing policies across clusters at scale all from a single console.
Learn more about Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management
Bring big ideas to life with
Red Hat OpenShift
From edge computing to AI/ML, serverless, DevSecOps, and cloud-native, what could you create with one hybrid cloud platform orchestrating all of your workloads?
Outcomes of using Red Hat OpenShift
Architecture
Consistency across any infrastructure
Red Hat OpenShift provides a consistent application platform for the management of existing, modernized, and cloud-native applications that runs on any cloud.
Red Hat OpenShift provides a common abstraction layer across any infrastructure to give both developers and operations teams commonality in how applications are packaged, deployed, and managed. This allows you to run applications where it makes the most sense, without creating different operational models because of the host environment.
Whitepaper: Principles of container-based application design
Development
Develop innovative applications faster
Develop faster with a complete enterprise Kubernetes platform to build, test, deploy, and run applications. Red Hat OpenShift includes self-service access to developer tools, a browser-based IDE, a broad selection of coding languages, data and storage services, and full CI/CD services for automating application delivery and supporting a DevOps process.
Red Hat OpenShift also gives you the ability to integrate and use public cloud services such as AI/ML or analytics, and access to a commercial ISV software marketplace for the platform.
E-book: Kubernetes patterns for designing cloud-native applications
Operations
Run and manage applications anywhere
With Red Hat OpenShift, sysadmins and operations teams can manage applications, virtual machines, and containers from a single control plane. Regardless of where Red Hat OpenShift is installed the interface remains the same for administrators and developers, allowing you to control clusters, services, and roles for multiple teams from a central administrative console.
Automate Kubernetes operations with OpenShift Operators and standardize automation in application delivery using built-in CI/CD tools.
E-book: Kubernetes Operators: Automating the container orchestration platform
Red Hat OpenShift options
The flexibility of Red Hat OpenShift starts with where you deploy it. The questions you should ask yourself are: Where will I deploy Red Hat OpenShift? Who sends me the bill? Who will manage and support it?
You can deploy Red Hat OpenShift as a managed service on your preferred cloud provider for a seamless experience on Azure, AWS, IBM Cloud, or Google Cloud.
For greater control, choose a self-managed deployment of Red Hat OpenShift on any private or public cloud, on bare metal, or at the edge. Read our sizing and subscription guide to better understand the subscription model for self-managed Red Hat OpenShift offerings.
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Additional services
A shared technological foundation
Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud strategy is built on the technological foundation of Linux®, containers, and automation. An open hybrid cloud approach gives you the flexibility to run your applications anywhere you need them.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform helps Red Hat OpenShift users create and run reusable infrastructure as code and automate provisioning tasks for cloud providers, storage solutions, and other infrastructure components.
Red Hat OpenShift delivers a complete application platform for both traditional and cloud-native apps allowing them to run anywhere. Built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and compatible with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat OpenShift enables automation inside and outside your Kubernetes clusters.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the proven foundation for Red Hat OpenShift, certified on thousands of hardware and cloud vendor technologies. This means the security, performance, interoperability, and innovation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is extended throughout your infrastructure to provide a single platform that can run wherever you need it.
How our customers use Red Hat OpenShift
Employers created a central app environment and automated policy processes, resulting in a 40% increase in 3-year sales and a better customer experience.
Volkswagen built a standardized architecture and virtualized, automated test environment for testing components.
Alliance Bank built an open architecture container platform to simplify banking services, increase security, and standardize processes.
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[1] The Forrester Wave™: Multicloud Container Development Platforms, Q3 2020
[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Fortune 500 subscription data as of 22 July 2021