Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, has announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift, the next major release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform. This is a significant step forward in how enterprises, particularly telecommunication service providers, can better unify traditional and cloud-native networks into a singular, modernized network fabric. Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift opens up a new pathway for how organizations can rethink their virtualization strategies, making it easier for them to scale, upgrade and add resources to their cloud environments.

With Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift, organizations will be able to manage complexity for faster, simplified deployments of both virtualized and cloud-native applications from the core to the edge all in one place. Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift can deploy compute nodes 4x faster than before when compared to Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 (as measured in Red Hat labs, April 2024). Additional benefits include:

• Accelerated time-to-market with Ansible integration;
• A scalable OpenStack control plane that can manage Kubernetes-native pods running on Red Hat OpenShift;
• Easier day 2 operations for control plane and lifecycle management;
• Greater cost management and freedom to choose third party plug-ins and virtualize resources;
• Improved security and compliance scanning of the control plane and Role-based Access Control encrypts communications and memory cache;
• A deeper understanding about the health of your hybrid cloud with observability user interface, cluster observability operator and an OpenShift cluster logging operator;
• AI-optimized infrastructure supports hardware acceleration technologies to help ensure seamless integration and efficient utilization of specialized hardware for AI tasks.