Red Hat has introduced the expansion of Red Hat Lightspeed across its platforms, infusing enterprise-ready AI across the Red Hat hybrid cloud portfolio. Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed will offer intelligent, natural language processing capabilities designed to make Red Hat’s enterprise-grade Linux and cloud-native application platforms easier to use for novices and more efficient for experienced professionals. Through generative AI (GenAI) integration, Red Hat intends to improve the productivity and efficiency of teams using these platforms.

With Red Hat Lightspeed infused across Red Hat’s core platforms, users will benefit from the ability to contextually apply Red Hat’s vast knowledge in using open source technologies in mission-critical environments to their specific situations, further extending the value of a Red Hat subscription.

As the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift is commonly adopted across departments and teams with varying roles and skill sets. OpenShift Lightspeed applies GenAI to how these groups deploy traditional and cloud-native applications on OpenShift clusters, simplifying application lifecycle management and resourcing scaling to meet demand. This means that OpenShift novices can more quickly build and develop the skills needed to run the application platform while experts can use OpenShift Lightspeed as a force multiplier.

One of the many scenarios that OpenShift Lightspeed will be able to support is the actions a user can take when a cluster is at capacity. It will suggest to the user that autoscaling should be enabled and, after assessing that the clusters are hosted on a public cloud, suggest a new instance of the appropriate size. By further assessing usage patterns, OpenShift Lightspeed could then offer to enable autoscaling down once capacity requirements decrease and even make additional recommendations, like using GitOps to save this configuration to use across clusters.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed will help simplify how technology organizations deploy, manage and maintain Linux environments. As systems scale and complexity becomes a challenge for even IT veterans, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed helps both novice admins and seasoned operations teams do more, faster, with the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform.

OpenShift Lightspeed is slated for availability in late 2024; those interested in learning more about early access can sign up for more information here. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed is in the planning phase, with more information available soon.

The new features of Ansible Lightspeed are generally available now.