Blog articles about Red Hat OpenShift

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One-shot Automation for Red Hat OpenShift Software Certification

August 21, 2025Andrew Vu, Ying Wang
One-shot certification automation streamlines the Red Hat software certification workflow and enables seamless publishing to the Red Hat ecosystem catalog…read full post
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Announcing Partner Validation as a new entry point into the Red Hat Ecosystem

February 13, 2025Hugo Rivero
Partner validation offers a new option for partners to promote their products on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Red Hat OpenShift and get published in the Ecosystem Catalog…read full post
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2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platforms

November 8, 2024Jackie Rose
Red Hat® has been positioned by Gartner® as a Leader in the first-ever Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platforms for its hybrid cloud application platform Red Hat OpenShift! The evaluation was based on specific criteria that analyzed the company’s overall Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.*…read full post
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Validate your Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization workload

November 1, 2024Paul Christensen
Test and validate support for your products on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization in 4 steps…read full post
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The OpenShift Partner Lab

October 24, 2024Francesco Lucente Stabile
In this post, we guide you through the process of requesting an OpenShift lab. You’ll find all the steps clearly outlined to ensure a smooth and efficient experience. We cover the requirements, timelines, and key information needed for successful lab setup, along with tips for making the most out of your lab time…read full post
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Suggested workflow to properly prepare your OpenShift workloads for Certification

September 26, 2024Ramon Perez
In this blog post, we will share some recommendations and good practices followed by the Telco Partner CI team for partners and internal Red Hat teams working with these partners to prepare OpenShift workloads for certification. The suggested process or workflow can be easily replicated in the collaboration between partners and Red Hat teams. We will show you, as part of the implementation of this workflow, how you can automate the report and analysis of preflight and CNF Certification tests launched with Distributed-CI (DCI) using spreadsheets to gather all the results and to check the evolution of the tests results…read full post
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2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Container Management

September 12, 2024Jackie Rose
Red Hat® has been positioned by Gartner as a Leader in the first Magic Quadrant for Container Management for its Red Hat OpenShift® offering…read full post
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Introducing OpenShift Partner Lab

September 9, 2024Taylor 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…read full post
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Certification with DCI on OpenShift Partner Labs

August 8, 2024Yanai Gonzalez, Tatiana Krishtop, PhD, Pierre Blanc
Learn how OpenShift Partner Labs and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS use distributed CI pipelines to automate, streamline, and enhance the certification process…read full post
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OpenShift Virtualization Partner Learning Guide

August 6, 2024Neal Hartman
Elevate your understanding of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization — from basic concepts all the way to advanced implementations — by using our new learning and resource guide…read full post
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Enabling Chart Dependency within the Red Hat OpenShift Certified Helm Chart Index

March 20, 2024Jose R. Gonzalez
Red Hat's Helm Chart certification program has made our partner's certified Helm charts instantly accessible for installation via the OpenShift® Console since 2021. Using the OpenShift developer console view, our customers have immediate access to your software, making the deployment and management of that software just a few clicks away…read full post
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Red Hat OpenShift 4.14 is now generally available

November 28, 2023Casey Allen
Red Hat is proud to announce the release of Red Hat OpenShift 4.14 to help further simplify infrastructure complexities and application development for DevOps and security teams…read full post
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Container certification health index grade walkthrough

October 3, 2023Adam 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…read full post
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2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™

September 25, 2023Dianna DiGiammatteo
Red Hat® has been positioned by Gartner as a Leader in the first Magic Quadrant for Container Management for its Red Hat OpenShift® offering…read full post
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Exploring Certification Test Suites Integrated in DCI: A Comprehensive Review

July 18, 2023Ramon 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…read full post
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Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study assesses the partner opportunity for Red Hat OpenShift

June 21, 2023Smriti Rao
The study includes interviews from 9 decision-makers about the business and financial value they achieved with Red Hat OpenShift. Key findings showed how Red Hat OpenShift helps enable rapid and strategic growth, fueled by Kubernetes and containerization…read full post
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Certified product distribution methods: Breaking it down

May 30, 2023Taylor 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…read full post
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Container Image Registries Changes Part 2

April 3, 2023Shawn Deena
This post will take a deep dive into the changes coming to the Red Hat container registries…read full post
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Disaster Recovery of Minecraft Server from ROSA to ARO

February 27, 2023Rodolfo 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…read full post
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Migrating from Red Hat OpenShift 3 to 4 -- Part 3

December 21, 2022Shawn Deena
Check out some customer success stories of OpenShift migration you can share with any of your customers that are still using OpenShift 3…read full post
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Migrating from Red Hat OpenShift 3 to 4 -- Part 2

December 5, 2022Shawn 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…read full post
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Red Hat OpenShift training tailored to your partner journey

November 15, 2022Fernando Lozano, Ravi Srinivasan
If your journey involves upskilling on Red Hat OpenShift, there are several courses that have been updated in the portal for your specific job roles and responsibilities…read full post
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Tetrate Enterprise Service Mesh is now on OpenShift

October 24, 2022Casey 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…read full post
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Migrating from Red Hat OpenShift 3 to 4 -- Part 1

October 4, 2022Shawn 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…read full post
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Container Certification FAQ

September 20, 2022Danny 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…read full post
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Certification Updates for Red Hat OpenShift 4.11

August 16, 2022Hugo Rivero
Red Hat OpenShift 4.11 is now generally available, incorporating many enhancements such as hosted control planes, improved pod security options, better support for air-gapped environments, deeper observability via the web console, among others…read full post
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Using OpenShift Pipelines CI/CD and Quay for Container Certification

August 11, 2022Taylor 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…read full post
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Important OpenShift changes to Pod Security Standards

August 3, 2022Taylor 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…read full post
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Red Hat expands free training courses available to Partners

August 3, 2022Emily Morency
Our open culture inspires us to empower partners to train using the same set of tools and practices that guide Red Hatters in our own customer engagements…read full post
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A useful managed application service for Red Hat partners

June 24, 2022Luis I. Cortes
Red Hat partners can benefit from a new managed service offering in the hybrid cloud application integration space…read full post
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Updating your operators for OpenShift when Kubernetes changes APIs

June 9, 2022Taylor 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…read full post
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Introduction to the Red Hat Distributed Continuous Integration process

May 31, 2022Yassine Lamgarchal
Taking a view from the partner's perspective, we explore the continuous integration process…read full post
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Red Hat OpenShift lowers the barriers to artificial intelligence projects

March 22, 2022Shawn Deena
Red Hat OpenShift 4.10 adds new capabilities in support of AI, along with NVIDIA AI Enterprise 2.0 certification to help streamline development and fuel innovation around intelligent applications…read full post
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Introducing a new, enhanced certification tooling for container images

March 15, 2022Taylor 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…read full post
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Red Hat Hackfest drives ecosystem collaboration and innovation

February 8, 2022Jackie Rose
In November 2021, 20 teams took part in the third edition of Red Hat Hackfest, our partner community initiative that brings partners and customers together to build innovative solutions that address complex business challenges. …read full post
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An introduction to Red Hat cloud native

January 27, 2022Mike Cooper
This video offers a great introduction to Red Hat cloud native…read full post
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Operator Certification Optimized for Continuous Integration

November 5, 2021Hugo 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…read full post
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Red Hat OpenShift 4.9 Is Now Generally Available

October 19, 2021Shawn 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…read full post
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Red Hat Enhances Developer Experience on OpenShift

October 19, 2021Shawn Deena
Red Hat enhances the developer experience on OpenShift with its latest portfolio updates…read full post
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Updating Operators for OpenShift 4.9

October 14, 2021Taylor 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…read full post
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Simplifying Red Hat Operator Certification

September 22, 2021Hugo Rivero
Based on recent partner feedback, we will be releasing a new certification tool for Operator bundles that can be executed on any OpenShift cluster…read full post
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API deprecation in Kubernetes 1.22 that will impact your operators

August 31, 2021Rob 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. …read full post
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Red Hat Expands Workload Possibilities Across the Hybrid Cloud with Latest Version of OpenShift

June 24, 2021Shawn Deena
Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 helps organizations accelerate the creation of new cloud-native applications without abandoning existing environments and IT investments…read full post
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Delivering containers to sports clubs and stadiums

June 21, 2021Daniel Cartter
Working with Red Hat, SCC realized containers could be deployed to develop apps to help enrich the fan experience inside and outside of the stadium…read full post
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Leading with containers

June 8, 2021Petra 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…read full post
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Helm Chart software certification now available for OpenShift

May 14, 2021Mike Guerette
Helm Certification complements Operators for kube-native application automation…read full post
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OpenShift Troubleshooting Resources

April 16, 2021Charles 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…read full post
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Removing cloud complexities from the channel (part 3)

April 6, 2021Matt Child
If you thought implementing a successful hybrid cloud architecture could be complex, then you should try sourcing all the right tools to deliver a winning hybrid cloud channel proposition…read full post
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Tech Data and Red Hat provide the hub for channel innovation (part 2)

March 22, 2021Matt Child
The role of the Value-Added Distributor (VAD) is often overlooked. Tech Data is a hub for new and innovative technology. We have access to lots of different vendors, platforms and skill sets. This collective knowledge informs how we manage our community and our resources…read full post
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Tech Data and Red Hat provide the hub for channel innovation (part 1)

March 16, 2021Matt Child
Success in business, or in any walk of life, typically rests on like-minded groups and individuals coming together to share experiences and insights to deliver a positive outcome…read full post
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Container Adoption: 5 Lessons on How to Overcome Barriers

December 15, 2020Shawn 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…read full post
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Red Hat recommended practices for container distribution

December 14, 2020Neal Hartman
When your product is Red Hat certified, the distribution method you choose applies to two things: the repository where your images are hosted, and where your Operator will be listed and available for deployment. This article explains three options for you…read full post
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Red Hat to publish Container Health Index for certified partner images

October 13, 2020Shubha Badve
Red Hat has been publishing the Container Health Index for Red Hat images, and now the CHI will track certified partner images that include Red Hat images. This grading system will be part of the certified product listing in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog…read full post
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Red Hat Tech Ready: The Partner Experience

October 12, 2020Kevin Chin
Red Hat Tech Ready is a new virtual global technical enablement series that provides the latest in the Red Hat product strategy and enablement on the newest features, exclusive to our Red Hat internal teams and Red Hat Partners. It is a 4 week series that covers 4 different aspects of Red Hat’s Open Hybrid Cloud Strategy…read full post
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Streamlining projects with the Red Hat Partner Connect API

September 28, 2020Charles Sheridan
Using the Partner Connect API is recommended for large products that are made up of tens or hundreds of container images. This article explains how to use it…read full post
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Video: How and where to get software certification help as a Red Hat partner

August 25, 2020Neal Hartman
As a Technology Partner, a lot of Red Hatters are available to help guide you through the process. Learn more in this 5 minute video…read full post

Red Hat OpenShift Operator certification at-a-glance

August 6, 2020Hugo Rivero
Building and certifying your software as a Red Hat OpenShift Operator involves just five steps. Read out them here…read full post

Building and certifying Operators - 5 things developers need to know

August 4, 2020Mike 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…read full post

Building a Helm-based certified OpenShift Operator

July 28, 2020Yanai 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! …read full post

Building and certifying on containers - 5 things developers need to know

July 21, 2020Mike Guerette
When building and certifying on Red Hat containers, here are 5 things that developers need to know…read full post

Red Hat container certification at-a-glance

July 21, 2020Shubha Badve
If you’re a Technology Partner interested in bringing your container software to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, here are the five steps required to do so…read full post

Testing your Operator with OpenShift Playground

June 25, 2020Yanai Gonzalez
Build partners: Test your Kubernetes Operator with OpenShift Playground. This 6 minute video will get you started…read full post
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Introducing the Red Hat OpenShift Certified Operator Discovery Workshop

June 25, 2020Neal 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. …read full post
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Building apps for OpenShift? Start here

June 22, 2020Neal Hartman
Build partners: want to build apps for Red Hat OpenShift? This short 4 minute video explains the resources available to you…read full post