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Accelerating AI adoption with Red Hat Ecosystem Partners
Artificial Intelligence (AI) introduces unique challenges, as it requires multiple components in the AI stack to work cohesively to deliver practical solutions for real-world problems.
The Red Hat partner ecosystem unites these diverse AI elements, enabling the construction of robust AI stacks on enterprise hybrid cloud platforms. By collaborating closely with Red Hat, partners validate their products for compatibility with the Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® and Red Hat® OpenShift® AI platforms. This approach ensures the necessary infrastructure and applications are in place, setting our customers up for success as they embark on their AI adoption journey.
To get started working with Red Hat and be included in the AI stack, partners can validate software in four steps:
- Become a Red Hat partner.
- Validate your product. Identify the role the partner product plays in the AI stack (data management, AI tooling and models, MLOp/LLMOps, infrastructure, security, governance, and observability). Then assess its compatibility with Red Enterprise Linux AI and Red Had OpenShift AI.
- Document compatibility with Red Hat products used (Red Hat OpenShift AI, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI).
- Fill out a statement of support form as part of your request to list your software in our Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog.
Register for the partner program
If your company is not already registered as a technology partner, use this guide to onboard. Everything up to the certification section is relevant for joining the program. If your company already has a profile, request to join your company’s profile, and the account’s organization administrator can add you. If you need any assistance please contact the partner acceleration desk, a global team that can troubleshoot issues associated with partner registration.
Validate your product
Verify your product’s functionality on Red Hat OpenShift. Test the product using a Red Hat Partner Subscription (RHPS), and reference this documentation if you need guidance setting up your own environment. Alternatively, request access to the OpenShift Partner Lab to get access for a limited time to a cluster hosted by Red Hat.
Note: Red Hat does not provide specific test criteria. Red Hat will provide an architectural blueprint. It is up to partners to determine how to verify the functionality of their product according to their support standards. Performance testing and benchmarks are not considered functional testing for these purposes. The goal is to deploy the Red Hat blueprint with necessary Red Hat products, and ensure your product is able to deploy and operate with other applications included in the blueprint.
Document compatibility
Partners should indicate their support for Red Hat AI products using their standard documentation practices. This is usually captured in a support matrix or product installation guide. Multiple documentation types can be included to better assist customers consulting the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog. They can include:
- Reference architectures
- Blog posts
- User guides
- Videos
- Whitepapers
The documentation must be publicly accessible and a link to at least one document will be required as part of the Ecosystem Catalog listing. It’s strongly recommended that the documentation cover how a customer can deploy and operate your products or services in conjunction with the appropriate Red Hat products for the AI use case.
Statement of support
Once validated — and you are comfortable stating support for your product with the Red Hat products — please fill out a statement of support form to submit it for inclusion in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog.
Get started
Once you’ve registered or confirmed your company as a partner, you can access the partner workflow to complete or update your company profile and review the partner agreement. Details can be found in our user documentation.
The key areas that are needed for the catalog listing are:
- A product listing
- Completion of the company profile
- Legal terms and conditions have been signed
- Creation of at least one product component
If you have any questions, please open a support ticket on connect.redhat.com and our Partner Acceleration team will be happy to help.
