Red Hat OpenShift: Powering innovation around DevOps

Red Hat OpenShift is a leading-edge application platform, and its comprehensive nature means it often delivers value that extends beyond the features and capabilities reviewed in some analyst comparisons. When combined with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, they together deliver an integrated DevOps platform supporting streamlined automation and deployment processes.  OpenShift recently excelled in an analyst firm's DevOps Platform evaluation. This outstanding result is particularly noteworthy because, while OpenShift offers powerful DevOps capabilities, it's fundamentally a much broader application platform designed to provide extensive value. Its strong performance, even when assessed through a specific DevOps lens, powerfully highlights OpenShift's inherent strengths and the breadth of its capabilities.

A comprehensive application platform

At its core, Red Hat OpenShift is fundamentally an application platform, designed to help you build, deploy, run, manage and enhance security of applications with consistency across the hybrid cloud. It’s more than just a collection of DevOps tools; it's an integrated platform providing a trusted, comprehensive and consistent experience. Built on Kubernetes, OpenShift supports a wide array of workloads—from containers and virtual machines to serverless functions—and embraces modern development practices. This accelerates developer productivity and streamlines operations, which naturally includes robust, built-in DevOps capabilities. Ultimately, OpenShift is your engine for innovation, whether you're modernizing existing applications, migrating virtual machines, or building new cloud-native and AI-enabled solutions.

Powerful and competitive functionality

OpenShift's and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform’s strong performance in a DevOps-centric evaluation is particularly significant precisely because it is an application platform that contains the tools teams need to build, deploy, run and manage applications anywhere, with security in mind and at scale. This result highlights the robust, inherent DevOps capabilities that are integral to OpenShift and Ansible—they are not an afterthought or an add-on, but a core component of how they enable efficient and security-focused application delivery. It demonstrates that even when assessed against more specialized DevOps solutions, OpenShift’s and Ansible’s holistic approach delivers powerful and competitive functionality in that specific domain. This independent validation confirms the strength of features for continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), automation and security throughout the entire application lifecycle.

Enhanced by a rich partner ecosystem

The value of Red Hat OpenShift is further amplified by its extensive and vibrant ecosystem. OpenShift isn't just about Red Hat's contributions; it's about a broad community of partners, independent software vendors (ISVs) and a rich tapestry of open source projects. This ecosystem provides a wealth of integrations, certified solutions and specialized tools that seamlessly extend OpenShift's capabilities into critical areas such as advanced security capabilities, data management, AI/ML tooling and specialized developer tools. For our customers, this translates into greater choice, accelerated innovation and the confidence that OpenShift can adapt to their evolving needs and diverse technology stacks. Many of the vendors that participated in the recent DevOps Platform report are Red Hat ecosystem partners and work with OpenShift and Ansible. 

Red Hat’s strong performance in the recent evaluation is a clear testament to its power as a comprehensive application platform, fortified with deeply integrated DevOps strengths. It’s built to empower your teams to innovate faster, more securely and with greater agility.

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