Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift is a Kubernetes container platform for enterprises running applications across data centres and clouds, self-managed or as a managed service.

Red Hat OpenShift gives development and operations teams one place to build, deploy and run containerised applications, with Kubernetes at its core. It is a Red Hat product, and Red Hat has been part of IBM since IBM closed its acquisition on 9 July 2019. The problem it takes on is keeping applications consistent across hybrid cloud and multicloud estates. The same platform runs on infrastructure a company manages itself or as a service Red Hat manages on a partner cloud. The platform extends Kubernetes with operators, built-in tools that automate the management of the services running on it. OpenShift Pipelines and OpenShift GitOps handle CI/CD, with Argo CD keeping clusters in step with their Git repositories. OpenShift Serverless and OpenShift Service Mesh cover microservice applications, and Red Hat OpenShift Observability helps teams troubleshoot before users notice a problem. Underneath sit the Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator, machine autoscaling for cluster nodes, routes and ingress controllers, dynamic storage provisioning and network policies. Developers install applications from Helm charts in the Developer perspective, and administrators update cluster versions in place. OpenShift is built for enterprises that run Kubernetes across their own data centres and several public clouds. Platform engineering and operations teams use it to give each development team a project with its own quotas and role-based permissions. Red Hat builds solutions on it for financial services, healthcare, automotive and industrial companies. Self-managed editions suit organisations that keep their own infrastructure, while Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), Azure Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated suit teams that want Red Hat to run the cluster. It is bought in the cloud, through partners or from Red Hat's sales team. A typical job is moving an application estate onto one Kubernetes platform and then shipping changes to it through pipelines and Git. On AWS, ROSA with hosted control planes runs the control plane as part of the managed service, so the team sizes only the worker nodes its applications need. The same platform extends to edge sites that need low-latency workloads, and to teams building AI platforms. OpenShift fits an organisation that wants one supported way to run containers wherever its infrastructure lives.