Red Hat & Oracle launch OpenShift on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Red Hat, in partnership with Oracle, has announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) through virtual machines (VMs). The collaboration aims to create an ecosystem for applications built for hybrid cloud systems, combining the flexibility of OCI's distributed cloud and the robustness of Red Hat's OpenShift.

The integrative offering allows for Red Hat's OpenShift - an industry standout for building, managing and deploying cloud-native applications - to be installed on OCI across 69 regions, including Australia. Customers can customise their location and operations model to best meet their requirements for regulatory compliance, performance, and cost-effectiveness. This newly launched service builds upon and expands the collaborative relationship between Red Hat and Oracle, which began with the initial certification of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for OCI bare metal and Oracle VMware Cloud Solution workloads.

Karan Batta, Senior Vice President of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, commented on the milestone: "With Red Hat OpenShift on OCI, customers achieve the double benefit of easily extending their Red Hat OpenShift environments to OCI while gaining the flexibility to run their workloads from any location via OCI's distributed cloud."

Thanks to the existing transparent support agreements between the two technology giants, customers can confidently migrate and run their Red Hat OpenShift workloads on OCI. Supported configurations for customer-managed installations include Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, and Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine.

The partnership allows customers to extend their Red Hat OpenShift ecosystems to OCI and allows them to manage installations from their Red Hat portal. Oracle's contribution is the provision of Container Storage Interface (CSI) software, enabling OCI storage integration with Red Hat OpenShift, and Cloud Control Manager (CCM) software, which allows for API operability between OCI and the Red Hat OpenShift platform.

Furthermore, OCI's distributed cloud encompasses Oracle Government Cloud regions in the U.S., U.K., and Australia. It also includes OCI Dedicated Regions at customer-controlled sites, partner-enabled Oracle Alloy regions, Compute Cloud@Customer in customers' data centres, and Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud. Red Hat OpenShift versions 4.14 and 4.15 are approved for installation on OCI Compute flexible virtual machine shapes available in each of these offerings. This broad deployment flexibility is particularly vital for industries such as telecommunications, finance, and healthcare, operating across diverse jurisdictions and complex regulatory environments.

With the aim of potentially halving the compute cost and reducing to one-third the storage prices of other hyperscalers, OCI Compute’s flexible virtual machine shapes and OCI Block Storage auto-tuning volumes optimise performance. In the not-so-distant future, further bare metal validation is planned.