Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today 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.

Typically operating at a massive scale, enterprises are consistently tasked with managing new levels of complexity as the industries that they serve transform. To do this more effectively, they need to build modern network infrastructures that can scale towards the edge with automated resource scaling providing a high performance architecture that has the ability to optimize resource usage wherever applications are located. To achieve these goals, the underlying infrastructures need to be able to meld traditional virtualized applications with more modern cloud-native applications.

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. 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.

Red Hat’s commitment to and investment in OpenStack remains strong and remains the leading contributor at both the project and product levels. OpenStack continues to be a vital component for large IT infrastructures, especially in the telecommunication space, and this evolution can improve how these organizations deploy, manage, and maintain OpenStack footprints.

Trusted, reliable support for telecommunication service providers

To help telecommunication service providers accelerate their goals, Red Hat offers expertise at every stage of the deployment process. Whether customers are new to OpenStack or migrating from a legacy estate, Red Hat provides tailored training for customer teams to quickly build in-house technical expertise. Our consulting services help plan and deploy projects within the unique environments of telecommunication companies, focusing on minimizing operational risks. Additionally, Red Hat Technical Account Managers provide ongoing guidance and advice throughout the lifecycle of Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift, helping ensure a smooth and secure implementation.

This landscape will only become more dynamic and complex over the next few years. By further blending Red Hat OpenStack Platform with Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat will continue to help telecommunication service providers solve today’s problems while also preparing their environments to best capitalize on opportunities provided by intelligent networks that can leverage AI, flourish at the edge and scale on-demand. 94% of telecommunication companies in the Fortune 500 rely on Red Hat[3], underscoring our proven ability to support and modernize their networks. With Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift, telecommunication service providers can expand new services, applications and revenue streams – propelling their business forward for 5G and beyond.

Supporting Quotes

Chris Wright, senior vice president of global engineering and chief technology officer, Red Hat

“Red Hat’s dedication to OpenStack is demonstrated through our extensive contributions to the project, our leadership in the OpenStack community and our focus on delivering enterprise-grade OpenStack solutions to our customers. This dedication must evolve as our customers’ needs change, and Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift will help provide our OpenStack customers with a more unified, flexible application platform.”

Takeshi Maehara, deputy general manager, network and cloud platforms, KDDI

“KDDI has been a longstanding user of both Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat OpenShift and we’re excited about this next evolution. These solutions have enabled us to quickly and flexibly develop and deploy new services and applications. This integration will allow organizations like KDDI to modernize and manage complexity from the core to the edge.”

Nilay Rathod, technology automation and services lead, Spark New Zealand

“Spark is pleased Red Hat is continuing to evolve Red Hat OpenStack Platform. Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift will help to further enhance our telecommunications infrastructure, providing even greater flexibility, scalability and resilience. Our collaboration with Red Hat continues to drive innovation, allowing us to deliver superior performance and reliability to our customers. Together, we are building the future of New Zealand’s wireless mobile networks.”