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Red Hat OpenShift

Build, accelerate, and scale with an application platform that’s built for today's workloads and tomorrow's innovation. Deliver a comprehensive experience to modernize and build new applications, accelerate AI adoption, and fuel growth. 

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Red Hat OpenShift 5 is here

Find out more about the agentic capabilities, security controls, and predictable release cadence available in the latest version.

Why choose Red Hat OpenShift as your application platform?

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Power the entire application lifecycle

Build modern, cloud-native applications on a single, centralized platform with Kubernetes at its core.

A consistent experience, anywhere

Use familiar tools and frameworks on your choice of self-managed editions or managed cloud services.

Security at the speed of AI

Security built into every step of the application lifecycle for a consistent experience, everywhere.

One platform. Any workload. Any infrastructure.

AI

Run agentic applications

Manage the lifecycle of agentic applications at scale, across hybrid cloud environments.

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Virtualization

Migrate your VMs

Migrate and manage traditional virtual machines (VMs) onto a trusted, consistent, and comprehensive hybrid cloud application platform.

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App dev and delivery

Build your apps—your way

Simplify the entire lifecycle of application development—from building and deploying to running and managing.

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App modernization

Modernize your apps

Maintain, rehost, re-platform, or refactor existing apps at your own pace—and develop new cloud-native apps—with a single platform.

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With IT now closely aligned to our business goals, many of our competitors are chasing us to catch up in the digital space.

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Security

Platform security at release speed

Ship apps faster with built-in security. Red Hat OpenShift protects work from code to production across hybrid cloud.

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Strengthen your security audit readiness. Banque Misr protects customer data and validates PCI and CIS compliance with Red Hat OpenShift security controls.

Choose how and where you build

Manage your environment on any supported infrastructure or cloud—or let Red Hat manage it for you on one of our partner cloud platforms. However you want to run, there’s a Red Hat OpenShift edition to meet your needs.

Managed cloud services

Managed cloud services

Red Hat OpenShift is available as a managed application platform on the cloud provider of your choice. Make the most of your existing cloud investments by using your committed spend on Red Hat products and services.

Self-managed editions

Self-managed editions

Red Hat OpenShift’s self-managed editions build upon each other, giving you the flexibility to choose the features that matter most to you.

Advanced

Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus

A suite of solutions with advanced multicluster security and management to build and scale applications across environments. 

Standard

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

A complete platform with services and tools to develop, operate, and modernize applications. 

Entry-level

Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine

An enterprise Kubernetes runtime for container orchestration and management.

Just for VMs

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine

A cost-effective solution to migrate, deploy, manage, and scale virtual machines exclusively.

Here’s what analysts have to say about Red Hat OpenShift

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Red Hat is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms

Give your ideas a trusted place to run

Red Hat OpenShift provides automated management capabilities and helps protect your systems with enhanced security controls.

Management

Make your app platform work for you

Extend Red Hat OpenShift from a single console with Red Hat OpenShift operators, built-in tools with automated management capabilities.

Enhanced CI/CD workflows

Create advanced CI/CD workflows for your applications with OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines.

Infrastructure management

Simplify the development, management, and scaling of cloud-native and microservice-based applications with OpenShift Serverless and OpenShift Service Mesh.

Agentic and real-time monitoring

Visualize and analyze your systems and troubleshoot issues before they impact your applications with Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed and Red Hat OpenShift Observability.

Security

Secure from the start

Red Hat OpenShift helps protect apps, data, and users with security controls from Day 0.

Verify every identity

Give each person, workload, and AI agent the right access. Short-lived identities and conditional authorization help reduce standing privilege.

Isolate every tenant

Run teams, customers, and sensitive workloads on shared infrastructure with stronger separation. User-defined networking, hosted control planes, and sandboxed containers help contain lateral movement.

Protect data for what comes next

Protect sensitive data now and as threats change. Integrity checks, confidential computing, and post-quantum cryptography help guard data at rest, in motion, and in use.

Move security fixes to production faster

Fix dependency risk without slowing teams down. Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite connects Lightwell remediation with Red Hat OpenShift delivery workflows, so teams can move approved fixes through policy checks and toward production with less manual work and fewer handoffs.

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Start learning

Explore resources about Red Hat OpenShift based on your goals, expertise, and learning style.

OpenShift essentials

Access the tools and guidance you need to get the most out of Red Hat OpenShift, organized by environment and role.

Training

Validate your Red Hat OpenShift skills with training tailored to administrator or developer roles.

Livestream

Explore the tools that containers need to run in a cloud-native environment in the Ask an OpenShift Expert livestream.

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Build on a reliable foundation

Enterprises around the world trust our broad portfolio of hybrid cloud infrastructure, application services, cloud-native application development, and automation solutions to deliver IT services on any infrastructure quickly and cost effectively.

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Support application deployments—from on premise to the cloud to the edge—in a flexible operating environment.

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Quickly build and deploy applications at scale, while you modernize the ones you already have.

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Automation Platform

Create, manage, and dynamically scale automation across your entire enterprise.

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Tune small models with enterprise-relevant data, and develop and deploy AI solutions across hybrid cloud environments.

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What's next?

Try it

Whether you want to try our no-cost trials or get started with a pay-as-you-go option, we’ve got you covered.

Get started

We offer multiple ways to use Red Hat OpenShift. Buy it in the cloud, from our partners, or work with sales.

Get documentation

Find answers, get step-by-step guidance, and learn how to use Red Hat products.

Plan your next update

Get the documentation and tools you need to update your Red Hat OpenShift clusters.

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