Red Hat, known for its open source solutions, has expanded its collaboration with Google Cloud to support application modernisation and cloud migrations. The updated partnership introduces Red Hat OpenShift within the Google Cloud Console and marks the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud.
The collaboration reflects both companies’ focus on providing an application platform for building, deploying, managing, and scaling containerised, virtualised, and AI applications on Google Cloud, with an emphasis on security and performance.
Red Hat OpenShift integration in the Google Cloud Console aims to simplify access for customers running workloads on Google Cloud and support a more streamlined onboarding process. Key features include:
Streamlined onboarding: Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated users can validate Google Cloud prerequisites and move through a guided cluster provisioning process.
Unified billing: Organisations can use pay-as-you-go pricing via Google Cloud Marketplace, with costs aligned to Google Cloud committed spend.
Native service integrations: Integration with Google Cloud services such as Google Cloud Secret Manager and Certificate Authority Service.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation is designed to support the use of both virtual machines and container-based workloads on a consistent Kubernetes platform, helping organisations manage mixed workloads across environments.
Available on Google Cloud C3 bare metal instances, the capability provides direct access to CPU and memory resources to support workload performance:
- Accelerated modernisation: Supports the development and modernisation of VM-based applications at varying speeds.
- Consistent management: Enables management of VMs and containers across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments through a unified operational model.
- Simplified migration: Migration tools, including the migration toolkit for virtualisation, support workload movement with reduced downtime.
- Enhanced scalability: Provides elastic scaling, predictable performance, and service level agreements.
