Red Hat Integrates OpenStack Natively on OpenShift for Enhanced Cloud-Native Operations

The new offering, also known as Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18, promises significant performance improvements

Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift, enabling OpenStack to run natively on Kubernetes clusters. This integration allows IT teams to orchestrate OpenStack components as microservices alongside other cloud-native applications, enhancing flexibility and efficiency in managing hybrid application portfolios.

Sean Cohen, Red Hat’s Director of Product Management for Hybrid Platforms, highlighted that this capability enables the use of OpenStack's control plane to manage Kubernetes pods on OpenShift. This approach also unifies observability across both platforms, offering a more streamlined management experience. The new offering, also known as Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18, promises significant performance improvements, with the ability to deploy compute nodes up to four times faster than the previous version. Additionally, IT teams can now deploy OpenShift in as little as three minutes, accelerating the pace of operations. Red Hat is also leveraging its Ansible framework to automate workflows and its AI-powered Red Hat Lightspeed for OpenShift, developed in collaboration with IBM, to further simplify management tasks. The integration is expected to appeal to organizations, particularly in sectors like telecommunications, by centralizing the management of monolithic and microservices-based applications.

As the lines between OpenStack and Kubernetes continue to blur, Red Hat’s latest innovation offers a unified platform for organizations looking to optimize their IT infrastructure.