The freely available version of Kubernetes (upstream) is not difficult to download and install, but additional effort is required to make it truly suitable for running business-critical applications. There are additional services that complement Kubernetes, making it suitable for creating a more robust and feature-rich environment when deploying containers. Red Hat provides additional features built on top of the base Kubernetes that integrate these additional services and offer them as a product, providing a robust and secure enterprise solution in a single package. Managing a Kubernetes environment can be complicated and difficult for those who do not have solid practical experience in its installation and use, and this becomes even more complex when there are a large number of application instances. Kubernetes operators can simplify the management of stateful applications that use other components such as databases, caches, and monitoring environments to function. They create certified application packages using standard Kubernetes tools in line with best practices, while automating tasks such as updating, backing up, and scaling. Red Hat OpenShift supports the use of Kubernetes Operators, using them as a model for scaling applications while reducing operational tasks and ensuring operational consistency. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform works both on-premise and in public cloud environments, enabling the creation of hybrid solutions where applications can be deployed in a self-managed manner. Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated is an environment hosted and managed by Red Hat that offers hosted OpenShift clusters to users as a virtual private cloud. Similar to this is Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift, where Microsoft provides the OpenShift platform to users. Both hosted OpenShift platforms serve the purpose of enabling developers to create secure applications in hybrid cloud environments even faster and more portably.

Red Hat OpenShift offers automated deployment, updates, and lifecycle management for the entire container stack, including the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, applications, and persistent storage management. The result is a more secure, continuously updated Kubernetes application platform that eliminates the headaches of constant manual updates and potential downtime.

As one of the leaders of the Kubernetes and container project communities, Red Hat contributes significantly to the innovation and commercialization of these technologies with its knowledge and experience gained in open source projects. Through OpenShift, Red Hat provides comprehensive and continuous security improvements to the Kubernetes project, as OpenShift's design principle is to maximize security across the entire stack, from the operating system through the software lifecycle to the applications.

As applications evolve into collections of decentralized services, managing communication between these services and ensuring security becomes increasingly difficult. Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh offers a unified way to connect, manage, and monitor applications built on microservices. With Red Hat OpenShift Serverless, applications can easily use only the resources they actually need, as resources are automatically scaled up or down based on current load and demand. This approach removes the burden of server deployment and configuration from developers, allowing them to focus on application development instead. OpenShift Serverless helps developers deploy and run serverless applications that can scale up and down flexibly, with zero load and resource usage. With Red Hat OpenShift Pipeline, developers can take complete control of their application deployment processes, plug-ins, and access management without the need for a central CI/CD server. OpenShift Pipeline runs each step of the CI/CD pipeline in its own container, allowing each step to be scaled independently to meet pipeline requirements. It provides a streamlined, task-oriented user experience through the OpenShift console developer view, command line interface (CLI), and integrated development environment (IDE).

Red Hat supports its customers' cloud journeys by providing a consistent, long-term hybrid cloud foundation for building and running innovative, container-based applications with Red Hat OpenShift. It facilitates business transformation and supports collaboration across teams by creating a cost-effective, unified platform that enables customers to meet their expectations quickly and anywhere. Red Hat OpenShift is fully capable of meeting the needs of IT organizations and application developers. Customers can choose from a wide range of Kubernetes-based solutions, from platforms built on their own community projects to managed services built on public clouds or their own infrastructure. As one of the market's leading solutions, Red Hat OpenShift offers a complete solution for customers who do not want to build and maintain their own custom platform based on the upstream project, acquire the necessary deep expertise, but need a secure, supported Kubernetes platform for their day-to-day business operations.