Self-managed OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

A hybrid cloud, enterprise Kubernetes platform to build and deliver better applications faster

Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform is a consistent hybrid cloud foundation for building and scaling containerized applications. Benefit from streamlined platform installation and upgrades from one of the enterprise Kubernetes leaders.

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Red Hat OpenShift is trusted by more than 2,000 customers to deliver business-critical applications, whether they’re migrating existing workloads to the cloud or building new, innovative experiences for their users. Red Hat OpenShift is backed by a 9-year enterprise support life cycle from one of the leading Kubernetes contributors, Red Hat.

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Push-button 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.

Build and deliver faster

Red Hat OpenShift comes with developer-friendly workflows including built-in CI/CD pipelines and our source-to-image capability that enables you to go straight from application code to container. Extend to new technologies—including serverless applications with Knative, cloud services, and streamlined service communications with Istio and service mesh.

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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.

Built-in monitoring

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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Virtualization

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