Real-world OpenShift stories: Inspiration for your next OpenShift Commons Gathering talk

At Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gatherings, we shine a spotlight on the people behind the screens who are building, scaling, and evolving with Red Hat OpenShift. These events are powered by real-world experiences, and we're inviting you to take the mic.

The next OpenShift Commons Gathering is coming to Atlanta, Georgia, on November 10, alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, and the call for proposals is officially open. Whether you're enabling AI at scale, migrating from legacy virtualization or accelerating application development, your experience can help guide others on the same path.

Need some inspiration on what to submit? Take a look back at a few of the powerful stories shared at past gatherings. 

Mastercard: Transforming data science with cloud-native technologies

Mastercard, a technology company in the global payments industry, needed to transform their Data Science Workbench to support machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) applications. Through Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift AI, they were able to build a new platform utilizing containerization, cloud-native tools, and automated deployment pipelines to deliver faster model training times, scalability of resources, and enhanced support for complex ML/DL projects.

Internal users of the platform note that they are happy with the "scalable and dynamic allocation of resources," and that they have access to "powerful infrastructure and very diverse support for key libraries."

SWIFT: Disconnected OpenShift, a zero touch provisioning approach

SWIFT, a leading provider of secure financial messaging services, adopted OpenShift to unify development across business units, improve automation and accelerate time to market. With hundreds of clusters across zero privilege environments for increased security, they now operate from a consistent and scalable platform.

"We are in a disconnected environment, that means none of our OpenShift clusters are connected to Internet. It used to take weeks for us to download the software. Now it just takes 90 minutes to build a cluster. We expanded on that and now we can build hundreds of clusters and manage hundreds of clusters using the fleet management. All that was possible because of Red Hat's help…We have access to the engineers who contribute to open source, and that helped put us on the right track, and to make the right strategic and design decisions at every step of the way." —Praveen Siddu, Senior Enterprise Architect, SWIFT

Deloitte: Go from zero to hero with internal developer portals

As a leading global provider of financial services, Deloitte picked Red Hat Developer Hub as their internal developer portal (IDP) of choice to help their internal users be more productive. With an enterprise-grade version of the open source project Backstage, Deloitte was able to turn the portal into exactly what they wanted, without having to manage the IDP directly themselves.

“When (Red Hat) Developer Hub came and produced a managed version (of Backstage), we thought that it's going to take care of the upgrades, take care of the enterprise support. This is a really great opportunity for us, as an internal developer organization, to create more on top of the IDP, and spend less time managing the IDP itself.”  —Adam Sykes, Engineering Manager, Deloitte

New York University: Step into the world of virtualization

The New York University Research and Instructional Technology team discuss some of the exciting work they have in flight (and out of the door) in the world of virtualization. Their legacy virtualization solution had been inconsistent across varying environments and manual processes were getting in the way of success. They were looking for a modern platform that was not only easy to manage across various teams, but could also grow with them in the future. Ultimately, they decided on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. 

"Another thing that was very nice about OpenShift Virt is the GUI is very beautiful. I mean, the metrics are all right there…all the monitoring stack is in all the places you're used to looking for it in OpenShift." —Carl Evans, HPC Specialist, New York University 

Have a story to share?

If your organization is building on Red Hat OpenShift in a meaningful way, now is the time to share your journey. The call for proposals is open for OpenShift Commons Gathering in Atlanta and closes August 18th, so submit your story today!  

Your voice matters. Share it with the community.

OpenShift Commons Gathering
Atlanta, GA (co-located with KubeCon NA)
November 10, 2025
Submit your proposal today!