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What is Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform?

Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform is a consistent hybrid cloud foundation for building and scaling containerized applications. Red Hat OpenShift is trusted by thousands of customers in every industry to deliver business-critical applications, whether they’re migrating existing workloads to the cloud or building new experiences for customers. It’s also backed by one of the leading Kubernetes contributors, Red Hat. 

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Bring bigger ideas to life when you choose our lead self-managed offering, Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus. OpenShift Platform Plus includes everything that comes with OpenShift Container Platform, along with a set of powerful, optimized tools to secure, protect, and manage your apps.

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Features & benefits

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Accelerate application development and delivery

Red Hat OpenShift integrates tested and trusted services to reduce the friction of developing, modernizing, deploying, running, and managing applications. Developer-friendly workflows, including built-in CI/CD pipelines and source-to-image capability, enable you to go straight from application code to container.

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Automated upgrades, cloud-like ease

Red Hat OpenShift comes with a streamlined, automatic install so you can get up and running with Kubernetes as quickly as possible. Once installed, Red Hat OpenShift uses Kubernetes Operators for push-button, automatic platform updates for the container host, Kubernetes cluster, and application services running on the cluster.

Consistent foundation for on-premise and public cloud workloads

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform delivers a single, consistent Kubernetes platform anywhere that Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® runs. The platform ships with a user-friendly console to view and manage all your clusters so you have enhanced visibility across multiple deployments.

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Trusted platform

Red Hat OpenShift builds security checks into your container stack—starting with Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® and continuing throughout the application life cycle.

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Built-in monitoring

Red Hat OpenShift includes Prometheus, the standard for cloud-native cluster and application monitoring. Use Grafana dashboards for visualization.

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On-demand environments

Self-service for application teams to access approved services and infrastructure, with centralized management and administration.

Ecosystem integration

Red Hat has worked with hundreds of partners to validate technology integrations with Red Hat OpenShift, so organizations can make the most of their existing investments.

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Centralized policy management

Red Hat OpenShift gives administrators a single place to implement and enforce policies across multiple teams, with a unified console across all Red Hat OpenShift clusters.

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Certified Kubernetes

Red Hat OpenShift is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Certified Kubernetes program, ensuring compatibility and interoperability between your container workloads.

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Committed spend

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Red Hat OpenShift 4.12 releases with security updates and more

Scale efficiently without compromising security

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Announcing Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service

Fast-track your cloud native security with a fully managed software as a service deployment model for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security

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Technologies supported by Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Red Hat OpenShift extends to databases, frameworks, and tools so your teams can move faster.

Knative

Istio

Prometheus

Jenkins

Node.js

Operators

Red Hat AMQ Streams

Virtualization

Red Hat OpenShift editions

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Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus logo

Builds on the capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with a complete platform for accelerating application development and application modernization. Download the datasheet.

Includes:

  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
  • Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation Essentials
  • Red Hat Quay

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Mid-level

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Adds a full set of operations and developer services and tools that includes everything in the Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine plus additional features. Download the datasheet.

Includes:

  • Developer console
  • Red Hat OpenShift Serverless 
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
  • Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines and Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
 

Entry-level

Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine

Delivers the foundational, security-focused capabilities of enterprise Kubernetes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS to run containers in hybrid cloud environments. Download the datasheet.

Includes:

  • Administrator console
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS immutable container operation system
  • Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

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The Red Hat subscription advantage

A Red Hat subscription offers production-ready code, life-cycle management, software interoperability, and the flexibility to choose from multiple supported versions.

It also gives you access to a community of experts, thousands of software, cloud, and hardware partners, knowledge resources, security updates, and support tools that you can't get anywhere else.

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Services & programs

More ways to improve your Red Hat experience

Training & certification

Red Hat OpenShift I: Containers & Kubernetes (DO180)

Red Hat OpenShift Administration II: Operating a Production Kubernetes Cluster with exam (DO281)

Consulting

Our strategic advisers can help you find the best ways to improve your Red Hat OpenShift experience and effectiveness.

Partner program

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