Red Hat OpenShift container platform

What is the Red Hat OpenShift container platform?

Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform is a highly versatile, hybrid cloud platform designed to facilitate containerised applications' development, deployment, and scaling. Trusted by thousands of enterprises across industries, OpenShift empowers businesses to manage mission-critical workloads, whether migrating existing applications to the cloud or building new experiences. The platform is powered by Kubernetes, with Red Hat being one of the most significant contributors to this technology. It provides a strong, stable foundation for modern cloud-native applications.

OpenShift Container Platform brings together the best practices of container management with enhanced security, automation, and scalability, making it the go-to choice for enterprises looking to optimise their cloud and on-premise infrastructure.

Key features & benefits

1. Accelerate application development and delivery
   Red Hat OpenShift simplifies the entire application development process by integrating proven and trusted services, reducing the complexity associated with modernising, deploying, running, and managing applications. The platform includes developer-friendly tools such as built-in CI/CD pipelines and the source-to-image (S2I) capability, which enables developers to go straight from writing application code to deploying it in containers. These features help accelerate application delivery by eliminating many manual steps, increasing efficiency, and reducing time-to-market.
2. Automated upgrades with cloud-like simplicity
   OpenShift includes streamlined, automated installation and upgrades, allowing users to quickly deploy Kubernetes clusters and get up and running without delays. After installation, Red Hat OpenShift leverages Kubernetes Operators to enable push-button, automatic platform updates. These automated updates apply not only to the container host and Kubernetes cluster but also to application services running on the cluster. This automation dramatically reduces the need for manual intervention and minimises downtime during critical updates.
3. Consistent foundation across on-premise and public cloud
   One of the biggest advantages of Red Hat OpenShift is the consistency it provides across a wide range of environments. Whether your applications are running on-premise or in a public cloud, OpenShift delivers a unified experience, allowing organisations to manage containerised, virtualised, and serverless applications using familiar tools and frameworks. The platform also features a user-friendly management console, providing administrators with enhanced visibility and control over multiple deployments. This consistency simplifies hybrid cloud management and enables businesses to deploy applications seamlessly across various infrastructures.

Additional features & benefits

• Trusted platform with built-in security. Security is embedded into every layer of the Red Hat OpenShift platform, starting from Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® and extending through the application lifecycle. This built-in security framework helps organisations minimise risks while ensuring compliance with industry standards.
• Integrated monitoring. Red Hat OpenShift includes Prometheus, the industry standard for cloud-native applications and cluster monitoring. With integrated Grafana dashboards, administrators can easily visualise and monitor system performance, ensuring that issues are quickly identified and resolved.
• On-demand environments. OpenShift empowers development teams by offering self-service access to approved services and infrastructure, reducing delays and streamlining workflows. This on-demand capability ensures that teams can rapidly scale their development and testing environments as needed, without waiting for centralised IT approvals.
• Ecosystem integration. OpenShift is designed to work with a wide array of technologies, allowing organisations to integrate their existing infrastructure. Red Hat has partnered with hundreds of vendors to validate technology integrations with OpenShift, making it easy for companies to leverage their existing investments and infrastructure.
• Centralised policy management. Administrators can implement and enforce security, compliance, and operational policies across multiple teams and environments from a single, unified console. This centralised management simplifies the governance of large-scale deployments, ensuring that all applications meet organisational requirements.
• Certified Kubernetes. Red Hat OpenShift is a Certified Kubernetes solution under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), ensuring compatibility, interoperability, and adherence to open standards. This certification provides peace of mind for organisations that require their container workloads to be fully compatible with the broader Kubernetes ecosystem.

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