- Red Hat OpenShift is now available on the Google Cloud console.
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation is generally available on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud.
Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to help organisations accelerate application modernisation and cloud migrations. This expansion introduces Red Hat OpenShift in the Google Cloud console, deeper integrations with Google Cloud services and marks the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud.
Today’s announcement reinforces both companies’ shared commitment to provide a comprehensive application platform where enterprises can confidently build, deploy, manage and scale containerised, virtualised and AI applications on Google Cloud. Customers can operate with the assurance that both Red Hat and Google are committed to the performance, security and continued success of applications running on Red Hat OpenShift on Google Cloud.
Enhanced flexibility for workloads on Google Cloud
Red Hat OpenShift is now available within the Google Cloud console. This makes it easier for customers to find the right solution for running their workloads on Google Cloud and guiding users through a more seamless onboarding experience. Key benefits include:
- Streamlined onboarding: Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated users can natively validate Google Cloud prerequisites before transitioning to a guided cluster provisioning flow within the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.
- Unified billing and procurement: Organisations can use flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing through Google Cloud Marketplace that counts their Red Hat OpenShift subscription costs against their Google Cloud committed spend.
- Native service integrations: Red Hat OpenShift users can unlock the power of Google-native integrations through jointly engineered and supported integrations with key services such as Google Cloud Secret Manager, Certificate Authority Service and Workload Identity Federation among others.
Modernising infrastructure with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation
Faced with rising costs and increased complexity, organisations need solutions that let them migrate workloads today and modernise at their own pace. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation, a built-in capability of Red Hat OpenShift, bridges the gap between legacy infrastructure and modern innovation by unifying traditional virtual machines (VMs) with containers and serverless workloads on a consistent Kubernetes platform. Users benefit from one interface, one toolset and one set of operational practices across all workloads.
Available on Google Cloud C3 bare metal instances, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation enables organisations with direct access to CPU and memory resources for performance-sensitive or licensing-constrained workloads, helping support modernisation while maintaining predictable performance in the cloud to achieve:
- Accelerated modernisation: Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud brings modern application development processes and tools to VMs, allowing organisations to accelerate the modernisation of VM-based applications at their own pace.
- Consistent management across hybrid environments: With a unified operational model, IT teams can consistently manage VMs and containers across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments, improving efficiency and gaining flexibility.
- Simplified migration: Organisations get flexibility to migrate from traditional virtualisation with minimal downtime using tools like the migration toolkit for virtualisation and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to ease the transition to a modern offering with flexibility to bring these workloads to a consistent hybrid approach with OpenShift and Google Cloud.
- Enhanced scalability and reliability: Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud enables organisations to gain more predictable performance, elastic scaling, and stronger SLAs, backed by a comprehensive application platform and highly scalable infrastructure.
Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud is a fully managed application platform that allows customers to focus on building and scaling applications that drive their core business. Global Site Reliability Engineers and built-in automation reduce operational overhead and improve efficiencies.
To experience these new capabilities and accelerate the modernisation journey, organisations can explore Red Hat OpenShift directly within the Google Cloud console. Additionally, organisations can begin their modernisation journey at their own pace with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud.
Supporting Quotes
Mike Barrett, vice president and general manager, Hybrid Cloud Platforms, Red Hat.
“Red Hat’s hybrid cloud vision is built on consistency – the ability to run any workload, anywhere, with the same operational model. This extended collaboration with Google Cloud further empowers organisations with comprehensive cloud-native capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift, whether they need to accelerate application development or streamline migration to the cloud. Together, Red Hat and Google provide a clear, unified path for organisations to modernise their entire application portfolio, helping them manage both their traditional VMs and containerised applications on a single platform.”
Nirav Mehta, vice president, Product Management – Google Cloud Compute Platform, Google Cloud.
“Our customers are constantly looking for ways to simplify their infrastructure and accelerate innovation without sacrificing performance. We are pleased to deepen our collaboration with Red Hat for OpenShift on Google Cloud. Customers now have a smoother path, enabling them to run both virtualised and containerised workloads consistently on Google Cloud’s global, secure, and performant infrastructure.”
