Red Hat OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes container platform (2024)

What is RedHat OpenShift

RedHat OpenShift, the industry's leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes, brings together tested and trusted services to reduce the friction of developing, modernizing, deploying, running, and managing applications. OpenShift delivers a consistent experience across public cloud, on-premise, hybrid cloud, or edge architecture.

Choose a self-managed or fully managed solution. No matter how you run it, OpenShift helps teams focus on the work that matters.

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Red Hat named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management

Red Hat named a Challenger in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms

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

Use Cases

Work with traditional, modernized, and cloud-native applications

Whether you're building new applications or modernizing existing ones, OpenShift supports the most demanding workloads including AI/ML, edge, and more. Automate deployment and life-cycle management with our vast ecosystem of technology partners.

Application development and delivery

Streamline workflows to get to production faster, including built-in Jenkins pipelines and our source-to-image technology to go straight from application code to container.

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Cloud Services Editions

Start quickly: we manage it for you

RedHat OpenShift is available as a turnkey application platform from major cloud providers. Build, modernize, and deploy applications at scale on the cloud provider of your choice.

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468%

ROI using OpenShift Cloud Services

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Self-managed Editions

You manage it for control and flexibility

A self-managed deployment option, RedHat OpenShift Platform Plus can be installed on premise, cloud, managed cloud, or at the edge providing consistent user experience, management, and security across hybrid infrastructure.

RedHat's self-managed offerings build upon each other to give you the flexibility to choose your level of control and security. RedHat's recommended self-managed option is RedHat OpenShift Platform Plus, which includes all the features of RedHat OpenShift Container Platform along with advanced cluster management and security, data management essentials, and an enterprise container registry.

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54%

reduced operating costs

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Flagship

A complete platform for accelerating application development and application modernization. Download the datasheet on Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus.

Includes

Everything in RedHat OpenShift Container Platform plus:

RedHat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
RedHat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
RedHat OpenShift Data Foundation Essentials
RedHat Quay

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Additional self-managed options

Mid-level RedHat OpenShift Container Platform

A full set of operations and developer services and tools that includes everything in the RedHat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine plus additional features and services. Download the datasheet.

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Entry-level RedHat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine

An enterprise Kubernetes runtime that includes RedHat Enterprise Linux CoreOS immutable container operation system, administrator console and RedHat OpenShift Virtualization. Download the datasheet.

Learn more about Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine

Read our sizing and subscription guide to better understand the subscription model for self-managed RedHat OpenShift offerings.

Customer Success

The Fortune Global 500 are embracing RedHat OpenShift

50%

of Fortune Global 500 aerospace and defense companies¹

57%

of Fortune Global 500 technology companies²

51%

of Fortune Global 500 financial companies³

80%

of Fortune Global 500 telecommunications companies⁴

54%

of Fortune Global 500 motor vehicles and parts companies⁵

50%

of Fortune Global 500 food and drug stores⁶

Red Hat OpenShift wins TrustRadius Best Of 2023 Awards

TrustRadius holds an annual Best Of Awards to recognize technology vendors that exhibit exceptional strengths across feature sets, customer relationships and value. OpenShift has been named a Best Of product across these three categories.

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Outcomes of using RedHat OpenShift

Employers created a central application environment and automated policy processes, resulting in a 40% increase in 3-year sales and a better customer experience.

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Volkswagen built a standardized architecture and virtualized, automated test environment for testing components.

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Facing technical debt from rapid growth and acquisitions, Brightly worked with RedHat Consulting to build a new platform through RedHat® OpenShift® on AWS (ROSA).

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Next Steps

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Try RedHat OpenShift

Get started in the developer sandbox, launch a trial cluster of RedHat OpenShift Dedicated, or set up a trial of self-managed RedHat OpenShift Container Platform.

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Activate a complimentary, fully-supported OpenShift subscription available through the Level Up program.

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Related resources

Download the RedHat OpenShift datasheet Learn what's new and what's next in OpenShift OpenShift sizing and subscription guide RedHat OpenShift Blog Channel Red Hat OpenShift Library

Communities

OpenShift Commons Kube by Example konveyor.io

Training and certification

Try RedHat OpenShift training for free RedHat OpenShift Administration II with exam (DO281) Container Adoption Boot Camp (DO700) Developing Applications with RedHat OpenShift Serverless and Knative (DO244)

Additional services

RedHat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes RedHat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes RedHat OpenShift Data Foundation RedHat OpenShift Data Science RedHat Marketplace RedHat Quay

Open Hybrid Cloud

A shared technological foundation

RedHat's open hybrid cloud strategy is built on the technological foundation of Linux®, containers, and automation. An open hybrid cloud approach gives you the flexibility to run your applications anywhere you need them.

RedHat Ansible Automation Platform helps RedHat OpenShift users create and run reusable infrastructure as code and automate provisioning tasks for cloud providers, storage solutions, and other infrastructure components.

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RedHat OpenShift delivers a complete application platform for both traditional and cloud-native applications, allowing them to run anywhere. Built on RedHat Enterprise Linux and compatible with RedHat Ansible Automation Platform, RedHat OpenShift enables automation inside and outside your Kubernetes clusters.

RedHat Enterprise Linux is the proven foundation for RedHat OpenShift, certified on thousands of hardware and cloud vendor technologies. This means the security, performance, interoperability, and innovation of RedHat Enterprise Linux is extended throughout your infrastructure to provide a single platform that can run wherever you need it.