Red Hat and Google Cloud expanded their partnership to support application modernization and migration to the cloud. Red Hat OpenShift is now available on the Google Cloud console. The news was announced on March 26 during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU event at Amsterdã.
The expansion includes the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud. Clientes gain more fluid integration with native platform services. The companies highlight their focus on providing a comprehensive platform for containerized, virtualized and AI applications.
Direct integration into the Google Cloud console
Red Hat OpenShift can be found and provisioned more easily within the Google Cloud console. Usuários Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated natively validates prerequisites before starting the guided flow of clusters.
The pay-as-you-go option for Google Cloud Marketplace allows you to include Red Hat subscription costs in your committed spending for Google Cloud. Essa flexibility helps teams manage expenses in an integrated manner.
Customers access co-developed integrations with services such as Google Cloud Secret Manager, Certificate Authority Service, and Workload Identity Federation. Joint support ensures performance and security across workloads running on the platform.
Virtualization features now available
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization bridges the gap between legacy infrastructure and modern environments. Ele integrates traditional virtual machines, containers, and serverless workloads into a single Kubernetes platform.
Organizations operate everything through a unified interface and consistent toolset. Isso Reduces the need for multiple sets of operations. The feature is available on Google Cloud C3 bare metal instances.
In these instances, users directly access CPU and memory resources for critical workloads or workloads with licensing restrictions. The result is predictable cloud performance and support for hybrid environments.
- Direct access to CPU and memory on bare metal C3
- Consistent management of VMs, containers, and serverless loads
- Migrate with minimal downtime using dedicated tools
- Unified operations across on-premises, cloud and edge environments
- Support gradual modernization of VM-based applications
Modernization of applications at your own pace
Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud provides a fully managed platform. Equipes development focuses efforts on creating and scalability of core applications for the business.
Red Hat Global Site Reliability Engineers take care of daily operations with integrated automation. Isso Reduces the burden on internal IT teams. Clientes migrate from legacy virtualization using the migration toolkit and Automação Red Hat Ansible.
The unified operating model allows you to manage VMs and containers in the same way across different environments. Organizações achieve greater efficiency and flexibility in this process.
Operational and scalability benefits
The platform delivers predictable performance and resilient scalability. Robust SLAs come from Google Cloud’s highly scalable infrastructure combined with Red Hat’s management.
Customers experience modern development processes and tools for both VMs and containers. Native integration with Google Cloud services expands the possibilities of use.
Companies that adopt the solution report a reduction in operational complexity and a greater focus on innovation. Console availability makes it simple to discover and start using the technology.
How to access new features
Interested organizations can try Red Hat OpenShift directly in the Google Cloud console. The initiative aims to accelerate application modernization efforts.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated lets you start the journey at the pace each customer desires. Suporte joint venture between companies ensures peace of mind when executing workloads.
