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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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Red Hat named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management

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Red Hat OpenShift named a leader by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave™: Multicloud Container Platforms, Q4 2023

Features & benefits

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.

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 delivers a consistent experience across diverse environments. Deploy and manage containerized, virtualized, and serverless applications using your familiar tools and frameworks. The platform ships with a user-friendly console to manage your clusters for 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.

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.

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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.

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Istio

Prometheus

Jenkins

Node.js

Operators

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Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus logo

Provides a complete platform for accelerating application development and application modernization. Download the datasheet.

Includes everything in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, plus:

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

Mid-level

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Provides a full set of operations and developer services and tools. Download the datasheet.

Includes everything in the Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine, plus:

  • 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

Provides 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 everything in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, plus:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS immutable container operating system
  • Enterprise-grade Kubernetes for container applications

Entry-level for virtual machines

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine

Provides the proven virtualization capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift in a streamlined, cost-effective solution to deploy, manage, and scale VMs exclusively. Download the datasheet.

Includes:

  • Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
  • Virtual machine-based workload hosting
  • Virtualization administrator web console

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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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Training & certification

Red Hat OpenShift Administration I: Operating a Production Cluster (DO180)

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

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