Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

Bring mission critical applications and AI initiatives to market with a secure, managed OpenShift offering.

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Overview

An integrated container platform for developers

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is a fully managed OpenShift® cloud service designed with built-in security to help organizations efficiently build, deploy, and scale critical applications. Ideal for cloud-native development and modernization projects, this service ensures consistent OpenShift operations across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.​

The service is highly available and intentionally integrated with IBM Cloud to bring your team the full power of the platform, including: ​

  • Identity and access management (IAM) services for fine-grained access controls​
  • Schematics for provisioning and life cycle management​
  • Observability for workload insights
 Virtualize and containerize together is now possible on IBM Cloud with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Features

Core Red Hat OpenShift capabilities

Let IBM rapidly provision, configure, and install a regional high availability (HA) cluster, delivering resilience and speed with a 99.99% service level agreement, ensuring your application will always be there when your customers need it the most.

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The default OpenShift cluster configuration is locked down with pre-selected controls*, preventing the unintentional creation and exposure of a cluster.

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Use a pre-built deployable architecture pattern to create your cluster that meets hundreds of controls by default.

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Get the benefits of broader IBM Cloud capabilities by directly integrating your Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud clusters with Observability and Security core services.

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Empowers enterprises to develop and deploy AI-driven applications at scale across hybrid cloud environments, featuring V100, L40s, and H100 worker nodes.

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Apply the Red Hat OpenShift entitlements included in your IBM Software license directly to your IBM Cloud cluster at creation time. 

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Use cases

Where Red Hat OpenShift delivers value

Mission critical applications

Provide support for mission critical applications across industries.

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Artificial intelligence acceleration

Facilitate an AI journey with the watsonx portfolio or Red Hat OpenShift AI.

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Application modernization

Run VM-based workloads and modernize to cloud-native at your pace.

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Confidential computing

Protect data in use on your cloud-native infrastructure.

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Hybrid Cloud software platform

Give Hybrid Cloud support for IBM Software products.

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Regulated industries

Address the specific needs of highly regulated industries. 

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Case studies

Red Hat OpenShift success stories

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Accelerating DX with IBM Cloud with Red Hat OpenShift

Kampo System Solutions leverages IBM Cloud to build mission-critical systems, enhancing customer experience and operational efficiency
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Partnered with IBM as a rapid response to digitally displaying student art during the global pandemic.
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BBVA Argentina

Containerized infrastructure achieves faster processes and greater productivity in banking- despite fast-changing regulations
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IBM CIO Organization - Hybrid Cloud

Reduced hosting costs and operating costs by hosting identical environments on premises and in the cloud.

Resources

Resources

Are you a developer interested in learning all of your deployment options?

First steps are easier with guidance, see our demo video to showase how easy is to get moving on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud.

1) Create your first VPC cluster from scratch.

2) How to create VPC clusters.

Are you familiar with OpenShift but new to IBM Cloud?

1) Create a new IBM Cloud account.

2) Select an option within the banner at the top of the page, which provides simple deployable architecture patterns which enables you to quickly create your first cluster.

3) Once the cluster is complete you can access it from the OpenShift console or the command line to deploy your first app.

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Are you deploying containerized applications in a highly regulated industry?


1) Explore IBM Cloud’s Framework for Financial Services, which prominently features Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud.

2) Learn how IBM builds over 280+ controls into the standard Cloud offering.

3) Once you are ready to create your first cluster with the Cloud for Financial Services reference architecture, use the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on VPC landing zone deployable architecture to create your compliant cluster.

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Are you interested in a full AI/ML workflow to integrate AI solutions into your containerized applications?

1) Learn how to Deploy AI workloads on OpenShift demo

2) Use the OpenShift AI deployable architecture™ (DA) to quickly deploy a GPU-based cluster with OpenShift AI installed.

3) The DA creates an underlying VPC and cluster with minimal input.

4) Explore the OpenShift AI tutorials™ to learn more about its capabilities, from model pipelines to model serving.

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