Building apps for OpenShift? Start here

June 22, 2020

By Neal Hartman

Build partners: want to build apps for Red Hat OpenShift? This short 4 minute video explains the resources available to you.

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Introducing the Red Hat OpenShift Certified Operator Discovery Workshop

June 25, 2020

By Neal Hartman

When we started down the path of creating a Red Hat OpenShift Operator certification for partners, after a few calls it quickly came to our attention that there were a lot of moving parts that developers needed to know about prior to beginning the certification workflow.

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Testing your Operator with OpenShift Playground

June 25, 2020

By Yanai Gonzalez

Build partners: Test your Kubernetes Operator with OpenShift Playground. This 6 minute video will get you started.

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Getting Started with the Red Hat Partner Connect API

July 15, 2020

By Charles Sheridan

The Red Hat Partner Connect API provides Red Hat partners with a REST interface for automating common functions within Red Hat Partner Connect certification use cases. The purpose of this post is to provide developers with an overview of Partner Connect’s API functions and the fundamentals of access and testing.

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Building a Helm-based certified OpenShift Operator

July 28, 2020

By Yanai Gonzalez

Kubernetes Operators have been such a hot topic in the last couple years. This video discusses how to build an Operator from a Helm chart using the Operator-SDK tool. If you have a helm chart for your containerized application, follow along in my video and see how easy it is to build your own Operator!

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Building and certifying Operators - 5 things developers need to know

August 4, 2020

By Mike Guerette

If you're a software developer looking to build a Kubernetes Operator and have it Red Hat Certified, then here are "5 things" that you need to know.

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Migrating your base Image from CentOS to UBI

August 19, 2020

By Neal Hartman

There have been a number of recent workshops where partners are moving to the Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI) from CentOS for their base image. This post summarizes some easy steps to do it.

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Container Adoption: 5 Lessons on How to Overcome Barriers

December 15, 2020

By Shawn Deena

To push past early challenges such as organizational inertia, adapting processes, and difficulties in choosing the right container technologies, enterprises must focus on five key lessons. If done properly, this can transform their development journey and revolutionize their organizational flexibility

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OpenShift Troubleshooting Resources

April 16, 2021

By Charles Sheridan

An essential phase of partner engagements is to technically align a partner’s application offering with the Red Hat platform. For containerized applications, this work focuses on adopting Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform.

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Leading with containers

June 8, 2021

By Petra Heinrich

Containers and Kubernetes play a key role for modern application development, supporting new business models around edge, IoT and AI/ML. Despite all of this, there are still some barriers to even faster adoption of enterprise open source. In EMEA specifically these center around concerns with level of support, compatibility with legacy systems and lack of internal skills.

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Using Jenkins CI/CD for Container Certification

June 8, 2021

By Charles Sheridan

This post will focus on Jenkins integrations exclusively and is for partners in the Red Hat ecosystem using CI/CD for container certification automation.

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Red Hat Expands Workload Possibilities Across the Hybrid Cloud with Latest Version of OpenShift

June 24, 2021

By Shawn Deena

Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 helps organizations accelerate the creation of new cloud-native applications without abandoning existing environments and IT investments.

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API deprecation in Kubernetes 1.22 that will impact your operators

August 31, 2021

By Rob Szumski

Red Hat OpenShift 4.9 will retire a series of Beta level APIs in both alignment and support of the Kubernetes community’s goal of encouraging the use of Stable APIs to increase the trust in API usage for production workloads and meet the expectations of enterprise users.

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The new Technology Partner Success Desk features

September 2, 2021

By Karan Athwal

Red Hat's Technology Partner Success Desk has some new capabilities designed to create a better communication experience.

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Cheat Codes for Red Hat Partner Training

September 7, 2021

By Kevin Chin, Cindy Hensen

Red Hat Partner Training has so much to offer but is there a way to level up your training game? Perhaps some “cheat codes” might help.

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Things to know about Red Hat Ansible Content Collections

September 13, 2021

By Shawn Deena

There are five key things you need to know about Ansible Content Collections.

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Testing content Collections with Ansible Automation Platform 2.0

October 11, 2021

By Anshul Behl

With the release of Ansible Automation Platform 2, Ansible automators and technology partners now have a new way to consume and package automation respectively in the form of automation execution environments.

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Updating Operators for OpenShift 4.9

October 14, 2021

By Taylor Smith

Kubernetes has removed several APIs from version 1.22. Any Operators utilizing these deprecated APIs will not work on OpenShift 4.9+ (or any cluster vendor utilizing Kubernetes 1.22) and will block your

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OpenShift and Advanced Cluster Management Updates

October 19, 2021

By Shawn Deena

Red Hat Pushes the edge further with Updates to Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes

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Red Hat Enhances Developer Experience on OpenShift

October 19, 2021

By Shawn Deena

Red Hat enhances the developer experience on OpenShift with its latest portfolio updates

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Red Hat OpenShift 4.9 Is Now Generally Available

October 19, 2021

By Shawn Deena

OpenShift 4.9 has a number of exciting new enhancements and new features for developers of cloud-native apps, for cloud-native DevOps practitioners, and for cluster and cloud administrators.

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Operator Certification Optimized for Continuous Integration

November 5, 2021

By Hugo Rivero

As the ecosystem of applications and infrastructure services on Red Hat OpenShift continues to grow, it is important to facilitate continuous testing and integration that tracks the Red Hat OpenShift life cycle.

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Optimize RHEL installation and deployment with RHUI 4.0

December 2, 2021

By Steve Shaffer

With the release of Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI) 4.0, Certified Cloud & Service Providers (CCSP) have enhanced features and functionality to help streamline their content management and optimize day 2 infrastructure service operations.

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An introduction to Red Hat cloud native.

January 27, 2022

By Mike Cooper

This video offers a great introduction to Red Hat cloud native.

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Introducing a new, enhanced certification tooling for container images

March 15, 2022

By Taylor Smith

Our new certification tooling allows you to run the certification tests on your own computer through the downloadable preflight tool. All you need is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system and access to the image you want to certify.

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Optimizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux hardware certification testing

March 28, 2022

By Rob Landry

This post is to assist the certification tester at our hardware partners to be effective and efficient when conducting the certification tests.

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Introduction to the Red Hat Distributed Continuous Integration process

May 31, 2022

By Yassine Lamgarchal

Taking a view from the partner's perspective, we explore the continuous integration process.

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Updating your operators for OpenShift when Kubernetes changes APIs

June 9, 2022

By Taylor Smith

Beginning with Kubernetes 1.16, the Kubernetes project periodically deprecates and removes APIs from the platform in order to maintain a clean, high functioning set of APIs.

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A useful managed application service for Red Hat partners

June 24, 2022

By Luis I. Cortes

Red Hat partners can benefit from a new managed service offering in the hybrid cloud application integration space

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2022 Global Tech Outlook: A Red Hat report

July 28, 2022

By Shawn Deena

Each year, Red Hat surveys information technology (IT) leaders and decision makers to learn their technology goals and priorities for the coming year, as well as where they are in their digital transformation journeys.

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Important OpenShift changes to Pod Security Standards

August 3, 2022

By Taylor Smith

The Kubernetes project periodically deprecates and removes APIs from the platform. Any time the Kubernetes project deprecates or removes APIs, projects using the affected APIs must adjust to accommodate these changes. OpenShift, and Red Hat partners running workloads and providing solutions for use on OpenShift, subsequently must also adopt and adjust to these upstream changes.

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Using OpenShift Pipelines CI/CD and Quay for Container Certification

August 11, 2022

By Taylor Smith

How do you build and implement your own CI/CD pipeline and more importantly why would you? Find out the rationale and reasoning as to why you would do this as well as how to do it.

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Container Certification FAQ

September 20, 2022

By Danny Bower

During a recent technical workshop we discussed what you need to know to build and certify your containers for Red Hat platforms and have shared some of the questions and answers with you.

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Migrating from Red Hat OpenShift 3 to 4 -- Part 1

October 4, 2022

By Shawn Deena

Red Hat OpenShift 3.11 officially reached its end of maintenance support on June 30, 2022. Now that OpenShift 3 has moved into the end of the maintenance support phase – it’s time for your customers to migrate.

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Leading with automation

October 10, 2022

By Shawn Deena

Through Red Hat’s Leading with Automation initiative, we are supporting our partners that go the extra mile with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, taking themselves and their customers into the future.

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Tetrate Enterprise Service Mesh is now on OpenShift

October 24, 2022

By Casey Wylie

Combining Tetrate Service Bridge with OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), built for the hybrid cloud, allows you to run workloads virtually anywhere and abstract away cloud provider details for a completely vendor-agnostic solution.

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An edge manufacturing use case

October 31, 2022

By Tanja Repo

This edge example use case shows how organizations can take advantage of Red Hat Edge, Intel hardware and expertise, and our community of open source and software partners.

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Introducing OpenShift Partner Lab

November 15, 2022

By Taylor Smith

OPL is a collaborative environment to utilize during the final phases of the development process for short-term, one day to one month, reservations.

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Build/Deploy custom RHEL images on Microsoft Azure cloud platform

November 17, 2022

By Marco Randria

This post discusses the Red Hat best practice to efficiently use and set up Image Builder for deploying and certifying custom images on Azure. Azure is pushing the use of this tool, and we would like to make Partners aware that those custom images are already certifiable through the process that will be described in this blog.

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Migrating from Red Hat OpenShift 3 to 4 -- Part 2

December 5, 2022

By Shawn Deena

In a previous blog post we discussed some of the general details around what customers using Red Hat OpenShift 3 need to do to migrate to Red Hat OpenShift 4. In this post, we’ll dig a little deeper into steps needed to properly complete this migration in an effective and efficient manner.

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Migrating from Red Hat OpenShift 3 to 4 -- Part 3

December 21, 2022

By Shawn Deena

Check out some customer success stories of OpenShift migration you can share with any of your customers that are still using OpenShift 3.

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The Red Hat Content Center

January 31, 2023

By Jackie Rose

Search, discover, and subscribe to sales, marketing, and technical content in the Red Hat Content Center

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Introducing Red Hat Partner Subscriptions

February 21, 2023

By Shawn Deena

Introducing Red Hat Partners Subscriptions -- a way to simplify partner access to more Red Hat products and support. These subscriptions combine the benefits of Red Hat partner Not-for-resale (NFR) subscriptions and Red Hat developer subscriptions (developers.redhat.com).

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Disaster Recovery of Minecraft Server from ROSA to ARO

February 27, 2023

By Rodolfo Casás , Shaozhen Ding

Our goal here is to demonstrate as a partner how you can execute seamless disaster recovery by backing up a Minecraft server in ROSA and restoring it in ARO.

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Container image registry changes impacting your customers

March 6, 2023

By Shawn Deena

Starting May 1, 2023 Red Hat will implement changes to our container image registry. Your customers who often pull container images will be impacted by this because they may not be able to download the content after the change goes live.

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Container Image Registries Changes Part 2

April 3, 2023

By Shawn Deena

This post will take a deep dive into the changes coming to the Red Hat container registries.

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Container Image Registries Changes Part 3 - Consequences

April 24, 2023

By Tim Waugh

This post will explore why it is important to be prepared for changes coming to the Red Hat container image registries.

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Why partnership matters in edge computing

May 16, 2023

By Andrea Battaglia

Red Hat sees edge computing as a natural extension of cloud computing, where applications and data are deployed closer to the edge of the network. Our approach to edge computing is centered on an open, container-based architecture that allows for easy deployment, management, and scaling of edge applications across a diverse range of hardware platforms and environments

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Certified product distribution methods: Breaking it down

May 30, 2023

By Taylor Smith

We explore how to alleviate uncertainty on the subject of why or how to utilize on distribution method over another when certifying your container images, Helm charts or operators for OpenShift.

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Exploring Certification Test Suites Integrated in DCI: A Comprehensive Review

July 18, 2023

By Ramon Perez, Jose Alberto Rodriguez, Tatiana Krishtop, PhD

This post will focus on the certification test suites that Red Hat has created for cloud-native applications to verify their adherence to best practices. In particular, we will see how DCI can simplify the setup required for these suites by handling all of the work related to the preparation of the configuration for the test suites, execution of the suites and report of the results.

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Introducing Ansible Inside

August 1, 2023

By John Hardy

Introducing Ansible Inside, a product offering specifically designed to allow software developers to embed Ansible directly within their applications, in a more scalable and robust way.

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Private Partner Automation Hub

August 2, 2023

By John Hardy

Red Hat Ansible has introduced a new product offering specifically designed for our partners who curate and use Ansible in their services practices: Private Partner Automation Hub. It enables partners to share their content with their own specific audience.

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Container certification health index grade walkthrough

October 3, 2023

By Adam Cornett

This post explores the two-part process of container testing and validation that is done in order to meet security and support requirements from enterprise customers.

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Keysight Telco Partner Experience: Red Hat Certification for Open RAN SIM CE

November 20, 2023

By Tatiana Krishtop, PhD, Nicolae Mola , Ramon Perez

The post highlights the benefits of Preflight certification, emphasizes security enhancements, and starts the discussion about cloud-native function (CNF) certification and CNF workloads at Keysight

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Good practices to generate the best CNF Certification with DCI part 2

November 21, 2023

By Ramon Perez

This post continues providing useful information to address the CNF Certification process.

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A new login and landing page experience for partners

January 17, 2024

By Jim Berets

As part of our ongoing work to improve the Red Hat partner digital experience, we recently made improvements to the login process for partners on Partner Connect (also known as connect.redhat.com, our partner website), and how elements of our partner platform are accessed

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Keysight Telco Partner Experience: Addressing CNF Certification for Open RAN SIM CE

February 2, 2024

By Ramon Perez, Nicolae Mola , Tatiana Krishtop, PhD

This post continues the journey of Keysight Technologies to achieve Red Hat OpenShift CNF Certification for Keysight Open RAN SIM CE, describing the changes and improvements made in the product to adapt to the certification requirements, as well as the workflow followed in collaboration with Red Hat’s Telco Partner CI team using Distributed-CI. Final certification results and conclusions are also shared.