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Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
What is Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform?
Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform is a consistent hybrid cloud foundation for building and scaling containerized applications. Red Hat OpenShift is trusted by thousands of customers in every industry to deliver business-critical applications, whether they’re migrating existing workloads to the cloud or building new experiences for customers. It’s also backed by one of the leading Kubernetes contributors, Red Hat.
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Bring bigger ideas to life when you choose our lead self-managed offering, Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus. OpenShift Platform Plus includes everything that comes with OpenShift Container Platform, along with a set of powerful, optimized tools to secure, protect, and manage your apps.
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Features & benefits
Accelerate application development and delivery
Red Hat OpenShift integrates tested and trusted services to reduce the friction of developing, modernizing, deploying, running, and managing applications. Developer-friendly workflows, including built-in CI/CD pipelines and source-to-image capability, enable you to go straight from application code to container.
Automated upgrades, cloud-like ease
Red Hat OpenShift comes with a streamlined, automatic install so you can get up and running with Kubernetes as quickly as possible. Once installed, Red Hat OpenShift uses Kubernetes Operators for push-button, automatic platform updates for the container host, Kubernetes cluster, and application services running on the cluster.
Consistent foundation for on-premise and public cloud workloads
Red Hat OpenShift delivers a consistent experience across diverse environments. Deploy and manage containerized, virtualized, and serverless applications using your familiar tools and frameworks. The platform ships with a user-friendly console to manage your clusters for enhanced visibility across multiple deployments.
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Trusted platform
Red Hat OpenShift builds security checks into your container stack—starting with Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® and continuing throughout the application life cycle.
Built-in monitoring
Red Hat OpenShift includes Prometheus, the standard for cloud-native cluster and application monitoring. Use Grafana dashboards for visualization.
On-demand environments
Self-service for application teams to access approved services and infrastructure, with centralized management and administration.
Ecosystem integration
Red Hat has worked with hundreds of partners to validate technology integrations with Red Hat OpenShift, so organizations can make the most of their existing investments.
Centralized policy management
Red Hat OpenShift gives administrators a single place to implement and enforce policies across multiple teams, with a unified console across all Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
Certified Kubernetes
Red Hat OpenShift is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Certified Kubernetes program, ensuring compatibility and interoperability between your container workloads.
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Here’s what analysts have to say about Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat is a Leader for the 3rd year in a row in the 2025 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Container Management
Red Hat is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Cloud-native Application Platforms
Technologies supported by Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Red Hat OpenShift extends to databases, frameworks, and tools so your teams can move faster.
Knative
Istio
Prometheus
Jenkins
Node.js
Operators
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Virtualization
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Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus logo
Provides a complete platform for accelerating application development and application modernization. Download the datasheet.
Includes everything in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, plus:
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
- Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation Essentials
- Red Hat Quay
Mid-level
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Provides a full set of operations and developer services and tools. Download the datasheet.
Includes everything in the Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine, plus:
- Developer console
- Red Hat OpenShift Serverless
- Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
- Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines and Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
Entry-level
Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine
Provides the foundational, security-focused capabilities of enterprise Kubernetes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS to run containers in hybrid cloud environments. Download the datasheet.
Includes everything in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, plus:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS immutable container operating system
- Enterprise-grade Kubernetes for container applications
Entry-level for virtual machines
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine
Provides the proven virtualization capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift in a streamlined, cost-effective solution to deploy, manage, and scale VMs exclusively. Download the datasheet.
Includes:
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
- Virtual machine-based workload hosting
- Virtualization administrator web console
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