Accelerating DevOps with Red Hat technologies

While DevOps is far from a new concept, its practices continue to be refined as new trends emerge that allow organizations to streamline their application development processes. Along with these changing practices, DevOps solutions also continue to evolve to not only help organizations be more efficient and effective -- but also to provide the latest tooling as they turn their focus towards AI-enabled apps to better support their needs.

At Red Hat, we’ve approached DevOps with solutions that deliver consistency throughout the software development lifecycle with containers and Red Hat OpenShift at its core. While containers themselves were built for speed, OpenShift has evolved alongside Kubernetes and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to add in fully supported tools to better manage container technology and build a more complete ecosystem of tools. This helps ensure containers are integrated and supportive of infrastructure and developer needs alike. Add to that  Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Developer Hub, and organizations have a DevOps solution with an end-to-end process to more quickly and easily take applications from idea, to development, and into production. We believe our approach of integrating and supporting the developer experience and the infrastructure platform together is a huge benefit in increasing development velocity, and in reducing risk throughout the software development lifecycle.

Streamlining development through an open platform + automation

Red Hat OpenShift is made up of over 50 open source projects which lay the foundation for success in the outer loop of development. With the addition of Red Hat Developer Hub (based on the open source Backstage project), streamlined onboarding, increased developer productivity, and collaboration are all unified for developers to focus on the inner loop of development. Platform engineering teams can offer software templates and pre-architected and supported approaches to maximize developer skills, allowing them to focus on writing great code and reducing friction and frustration.

Adding Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to the mix allows users to scale application infrastructure by automating the major stages of continuous integration, delivery, and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines with the right infrastructure to support the task at hand. Processes can be easily replicated and shared across disparate teams and environments, further streamlining and speeding development and management, with Ansible playbooks.

Flexibility through integrations

As with all our products - flexibility and choice are at the core of our DevOps solution. Red Hat OpenShift integrates with common Git repositories and supports CI/CD via OpenShift Pipelines (utilizing Tekton) and OpenShift GitOps (via Argo CD).  Developers are also able to use their preferred tools, not just what comes out of the box. With the Red Hat OpenShift Operator Hub, users can choose the supported tools that best meet their preferences and business needs.

Once a developer has pushed their code to a central Git repository, Kubernetes kicks in with its broad ecosystem of tools. This evolving ecosystem is essential to the changing needs of applications. As generative AI (GenAI) applications continue to influence tech decisions, developers and ops teams need AI solutions that will work with the platforms and processes they already have in place. Red Hat OpenShift provides that bridge, enabling advanced intelligent applications and its associated tooling to run in harmony with critical traditional applications and infrastructure.

Red Hat’s DevOps solution in action

Red Hat’s DevOps solution does more than just accelerate development - it provides a fully integrated platform with developer productivity tools, security and compliance features, and automation capabilities for the entire development pipeline and supporting infrastructure.

To see the solution in action, we showcase it in a demo that walks through how developers update Red Hat’s Cool Stuff Store. 

• Intro - Accelerating DevOps with Red Hat: https://youtu.be/rA03VXmw8pY
• DevOps with OpenShift Pipelines and OpenShift GitOps
• The Platform Engineers role in the DevSecOps inner and outer Loop
• The Developer: https://youtu.be/XF-FsgMj7A0
• Streamline edge deployments with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform