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An application development platform is a set of integrated technologies that enable teams to build software applications efficiently. A related concept is that of an app dev and delivery platform, such as a Red Hat® OpenShift®, which enables the building and deployment of software applications in a consistent way across the hybrid and multi cloud, including edge.
What is an app dev and delivery platform?
An app dev and delivery platform is an integrated, enterprise-ready alternative to an app dev stack, which is composed of individually-installed technologies. Enterprise architects, platform engineers, and IT operations teams benefit from being able to offer a standard application platform to developers across public clouds, on-premises, or edge. Meanwhile, developers benefit from a reliable, all-in-one suite of development tools within a fully-integrated environment.
In order for an app dev platform to successfully serve its user, it must provide continuous and secure development and deployment capabilities. The tools that may be utilized as part of the developers kit can include front-end tools for UI/UX creation, back-end tools for data services, or both.
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Why do I need an app dev and delivery platform?
App dev and delivery platforms provide teams of developers with the tools and support they need to collaboratively and efficiently build, test, and deliver applications in a standardized and secure manner. This means that developers can respond quickly to opportunities for improvement and react as a united front against security threats as well as competitive and market changes that can occur overnight. In other words, an app dev and delivery platform serves three main purposes: Standardization, support, and security.
Standardization: Adopting a common set of technologies, including integrations with technology ecosystems, across diverse IT teams provides the consistency and flexibility needed to modernize existing or develop new applications, and deliver business outcomes faster in a consistent way anywhere across the hybrid and multi cloud.
Support: Having a set of technologies integrated into a single platform offers a centralized source of support. This is especially beneficial for site reliability engineers (SREs) and operations teams who would otherwise be forced to communicate with multiple support teams from each app dev stack. Flexibility to integrate software from the technology ecosystem is also key to success.
Security: App dev platforms with security capabilities can help secure the entire application and software infrastructure stack, and the full software development and delivery pipeline. This helps defend against cyber attacks and vulnerabilities.
What are the benefits of an app dev and delivery platform?
The best app development platforms make developer usability and productivity a top priority. This means providing developers and programmers with the support and flexibility they need to build, test, improve, and maintain functions throughout the application’s lifecycle. Several of the most beneficial features that can be incorporated into an app dev platform include:
Cloud-native development and operations services
Platform, application, data, and developer services — including continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, integrated development environments (IDEs), programming languages, runtimes, API management , service mesh — provide capabilities for efficiently and consistently building, deploying, connecting, and managing intelligent, cloud-native applications.
A consistent infrastructure software foundation
A secure Linux® container host operating system and Kubernetes orchestration and cluster services — including automated installation, over-the-air updates, monitoring, and logging — provide consistent operations and life-cycle management across infrastructure.
Streamlined security and management capabilities
Consistent, unified security, management, and container image registry services simplify administration of large, distributed hybrid cloud environments.
Monitoring and analysis
Tracking the performance of applications and the underlying platform is critical to success. A platform that collects and reports analytics back to the development and IT operations team ensures stable and scalable operations with happy end users.
Expert DevOps/DevSecOps support
A fully supported application platform from a technology vendor that you can trust helps de-risk deployments to accelerate the development process. Having a support team on call helps resolve issues faster across the app dev and delivery pipeline and the various integrated components of the application platform. Hardening security on one single platform is more efficient and less bothersome than managing a disconnected stack of tools and their respective vendors.
Why choose Red Hat as an app dev and delivery platform?
With an industry proven, integrated technology stack based on open source development model and Kubernetes as the core engine, Red Hat offers an agile hybrid cloud foundation for application transformation.
Red Hat® OpenShift® is an enterprise grade open source application platform for accelerating the development and delivery of cloud-native applications in a consistent way across the hybrid and multi cloud, all the way to the edge. It is powered by Kubernetes as the container orchestration engine, and many more features from the CNCF open source ecosystem, all tested, packaged, and supported together as a comprehensive application platform by Red Hat. It can be consumed as either a public cloud service from the major cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google, and IBM, or as a self-managed software on the broad spectrum of bare metal and virtual infrastructure across data center, public clouds, and edge.
Red Hat a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platforms
Red Hat was positioned as a Leader in the first-ever Gartner Cloud Application Platforms Magic Quadrant. Red Hat® OpenShift® was recognized as a Leader for its ability to execute and completeness of vision.
