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Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift is a hybrid cloud application platform for building, deploying, and managing containerized…

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Red Hat OpenShift at a glance

Overview

01

Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

Red Hat OpenShift is a hybrid cloud application platform that provides a comprehensive experience with tools to modernize and build new applications, accelerate AI adoption, and fuel growth S40. It is used by organizations to build, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications and services across environments, from datacenter to edge S1 S46. The platform offers self-managed and fully managed options, with managed services available on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM Cloud, providing flexibility and consistency S115.

02

Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: Red Hat OpenShift is a hybrid cloud application platform for containerized workloads S40.
  • Core purpose: It solves the problem of deploying and managing applications consistently across diverse environments S70.
  • Intended users: Development and IT operations teams in enterprises seeking to modernize applications S40.
  • Product scope: It is a platform family including self-managed and fully managed editions, with components like OpenShift Container Platform and OpenShift Dedicated S115.
  • Positioning: Red Hat positions OpenShift as a comprehensive experience for modernizing and building applications, accelerating AI adoption, and fueling growth S40.
  • Claimed distinction: It claims to provide consistent experiences across environments, workflows, and teams S70.
03

Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
EnterprisesModernize operations for virtualized and containerized workloads S1.
Development teamsBuild, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications and services S1.
AI teamsDevelop and deploy AI solutions across the hybrid cloud S1.
Edge operationsDeploy workloads closer to the source with edge technology S1.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Application deploymentBuild, deploy, and manage apps at scale S1.
AI model deploymentBuild, deploy, and monitor AI models and apps S1.
Edge computingDeploy workloads closer to the source with edge technology S1.
Security-focused developmentCode, build, deploy, and monitor security-focused software S1.
Hybrid cloud managementOperate consistently from datacenter to edge, maintaining security standards S46.
Managed servicesFully managed in the public cloud of your choice, with joint management by Red Hat and cloud providers S40.
10

Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
AWSIntegrationRun OpenShift as a managed service natively on AWS S1.
Google CloudIntegrationDeploy OpenShift Dedicated with infrastructure on Google Cloud S115.
AzureIntegrationRun Azure Red Hat OpenShift managed by Red Hat and Microsoft S115.
IBM CloudIntegrationRun Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud managed by IBM S115.
Red Hat Ansible Automation PlatformIntegrationScale automation and unite tech, teams, and environments S1.
Red Hat Ecosystem CatalogEcosystemFind solutions from a collaborative community of experts and technologies S1.

Pricing

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Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWSFrom $0.076 per hour (reserved) S115Managed OpenShift service running natively on AWS S1; includes support, monitoring, logging, CI/CD S11599.95% uptime SLA S115; 3-year contract for lowest rate S115
Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShiftPricing details on Azure S115Managed by Red Hat and Microsoft S11599.95% uptime SLA S115
Red Hat OpenShift DedicatedPricing details on Red Hat S115Managed by Red Hat, infrastructure by Google Cloud S11599.95% uptime SLA S115
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM CloudPricing details on IBM Cloud S115Managed by IBM S11599.99% uptime SLA S115
Self-managed editionsContact sales S115Platform Plus, Container Platform, Kubernetes Engine editions S115Not established
Free Developer SandboxFree S115Trying OpenShift S115Not established
8-hour hands-on ROSA experienceFree S40Red Hat owned demo environment S408 hours S40

Competition

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
youtube.com224.5a rest, 3scale
cloud.ibm.com1113scale
merriam-webster.com112a rest
access.redhat.com1123scale
3scale.net1133scale
ibm.com114a rest
medium.com1143scale
en.wikipedia.org115a rest
telecoms.com1153scale
shanelonergan.github.io116a rest

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

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AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 1.9%
MonthSource
—All AI assistants
—All AI assistants
—All AI assistants

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

Page typeEvidenceSource
otherServices for AIhttps://www.redhat.com/en
featuresServices for AIHybrid cloudhttps://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions
featuresServices for AIhttps://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions
featuresServices for AIHybrid cloudhttps://www.redhat.com/en/blog/whats-new-ansible-automation-platform-2-7?intcmp=RHCTG0260000487184
featuresServices for AIhttps://www.redhat.com/en/blog/whats-new-ansible-automation-platform-2-7?intcmp=RHCTG0260000487184
featuresServices for AIHybrid cloudhttps://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions/ai
featuresServices for AIhttps://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions/ai
featuresServices for AIHybrid cloudhttps://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions/application-development
featuresServices for AIhttps://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions/application-development
features[Skip to content](#rhdc-main-content) AIhttps://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions
featuresAI newshttps://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions
featuresLive AI eventshttps://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions
featuresRed Hat AI Enterprisehttps://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions
featuresRed Hat AI Inferencehttps://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions
featuresRed Hat Enterprise Linux AIhttps://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions
featuresRed Hat OpenShift AIhttps://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions
featuresExplore Red Hat AIhttps://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions
featuresLearning hubhttps://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions
featuresAI topicshttps://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions
featuresAI partnershttps://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

15

Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Competitor gap2 first-page appearances across a rest, 3scale

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • pricing: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • integrations: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

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Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

PlatformPageHow it was foundNote
G2Compare Red Hat OpenShift and VMware vSphereGrounded web searchRed Hat OpenShift(296)4.5 out of 5Red Hat OpenShift By Red Hat Get a quote ... Red Hat OpenShift Star Rating (296) 4.5 out of 5 Market Segments Enterprise (49.1% of reviews) Entry-Level Pricing ... Management, and Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)
GartnerAssessing Red Hat OpenShift for Cloud-Native Application DeliveryGrounded web searchSummary Organizations adopt cloud-native application platforms with DevOps capabilities to accelerate application delivery. This assessment will help software architects evaluate Red Hat OpenShift as a Kubernetes-based cloud-native application platform.

Customer proof

Proof typeNamed customer or sourceEvidence
Case studyWiprocustomer case study — Underpinned by Red Hat OpenShift®, the Wipro Containerization, Cloud enablement, and Cost-optimization (C3 Modernization) framework provides the flexibility needed to become cloud-and container-ready, then move to the… (Wipro solution speeds cloud migration and reduces technical debt)
Case studyVerizoncustomer case study — with its 5G RAN using single node Red Hat OpenShift deployed on bare metal across 1000s of edge locations. (Verizon 5G transformation helps gain first-mover advantage)
Case studyCiscocustomer case study — To keep pace with customer demand, Cisco, a leading provider of networking solutions, must quickly deliver new IT products and solutions. (The key to happier Cisco customers? Higher IT productivity)

Independent mentions

  • Best Practices for Deploying Red Hat OpenShift — Red Hat OpenShift is a container management platform for Kubernetes that has been designed to streamline cluster deployments. Adopting infrastructure platform engineering, GitOps and policy-as-code principles further enhances its value, streamlining self-service and multicluster deployments. ... - Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RHACM) for Kubernetes is a key tool for operating OpenShift clusters. It streamlines multicluster deployments, combining self-service capabilities, GitOps processes
  • Red Hat success stories — ## Ambitious applications. One unified platform. To meet the constant demand and realize their boldest ideas, our customers need a comprehensive and consistent hybrid cloud platform they can trust: Red Hat® OpenShift®.
  • APIS IT modernizes legacy systems, improving efficiency and compliance, with Red Hat OpenShift / Red Hat — Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation, APIS IT migrated 2 decades of legacy systems it had adopted over the past 20 years ... on OpenShift, with plans to migrate an additional 200+ Java applications and adopt both Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for
  • City of Vienna transforms citizen services with AI — -based development, deploying Red Hat OpenShift in its datacenter for a standardized approach across the ... , modernize, and deploy applications at scale. With the ... team moved them closer toward their goal of distributed AI-enabled services. The
  • KPMG improves outcomes for state citizen services through a modern systems integration platform — levels of security vital when managing sensitive and personal information. It enables a cloud-native approach using microservices, ... and a modern DevSecOps approach to build and deploy cloud-native applications at speed. KPMG also adopted a container

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipCertain statements contained in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements provide current expectsource
Contact and supportNot published on the collected pages.—
Legal and privacyNot published on the collected pages.—
Security and complianceNot published on the collected pages.—
Uptime and status pageNot published on the collected pages.—
Domain registered1994-05-26—
Domain expires2027-05-25—

Not found on the collected pages: contact and support, legal and privacy, security and compliance, uptime and status page. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

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Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
90 Percent of Respondents to Red Hat Survey Plan to Increase Mobile App Development Investments in 2016Release notesRed Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced results from a recent mobile maturity survey, which revealed that 90 percent of respondents anticipate increasing investment in mobile application development within the next 12 months. The 2015 Red Hat mobile maturity survey also finds that these same respondents predict their organization's investment for mobile application development increasing at an average growth rate of 24 percent during the same period.Red Hat’s mobile maturity survey follows findings from two years ago by app development platform provider, FeedHenry (acquired by Red Hat in October 2014). According to FeedHenry's 2013 survey, only seven percent of respondents from 100 U.K. companies of 1,000 or more employees indicated their organization had a fully implemented mobile app strategy. Now, 52 percent of respondents to Red Hat's 2015 survey claim to have a fully implemented strategy, signaling a rise in the importance (source)October 2014
Linux Container Deployment Plans Grow, While Concerns about Container Security and Certification Linger, Red Hat Survey FindsRelease notesRed Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today released the results of a survey assessing enterprise adoption plans for application containers. The survey of more than 383 global IT decision makers and professionals, representing organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to state and local governments and commissioned by Red Hat through TechValidate, shows that while container adoption is likely to surge in the next few years, concerns around security, certification and adequate skills remain – concerns that Red Hat’s container certification aims to address. Survey results show strong enterprise plans for container deployments, with 67 percent of respondents planning production roll-outs over the next two years. Survey respondents indicate that they plan to use container-based applications in cloud roles (50 percent) and as vehicles for web and e-commerce software (56 percent). Application development enhancements dominated as the top ben (source)Not dated
New OpenStack Survey Highlights Strong Adoption Plans Among Global EnterprisesRelease notesEnterprise IT organizations are moving, or planning to move to OpenStack for their cloud infrastructure, a new survey from Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, revealed. The OpenStack enterprise adoption survey of more than 310 IT decision makers and professionals from around the world, commissioned by Red Hat through TechValidate, found that the majority of respondents (75 percent) are planning to use OpenStack for cloud initiatives. The survey found respondents in varying stages of deployment, ranging from learning and evaluation (40 percent) and proof of concept / pilots (40 percent) to preparing for deployment (18 percent) and in production (16 percent). The survey results show that deployment plans for OpenStack workloads span the physical, virtual, private and public cloud footprints. Survey respondents reported strong intent to run OpenStack workloads in other environments, including traditional enterprise virtualization (35 percent); (source)Not dated
Start using Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWSRelease notesPublic product change history. (source)Not dated
Announcing OpenShift Origin – Open Source Code For Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)Product updateProduct update is publicly available. (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

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Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)Fully managed in the public cloud of your choice S40.S40
Platforms and appsAvailable on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM Cloud S115.S115
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)Not published on the collected pages.—
Data ownership and exportNot published on the collected pages.—
Performance and reliability claims99.95% uptime SLA for managed services S115.S115
Release activityNot published on the collected pages.—
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
Domain registered1994-05-26 — Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE
Domain expires2027-05-25
TLS certificateDigiCert Inc, valid, expires 2027-03-06
Security headersHSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy
Server headerApache
Mail handled byus-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.com, us-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com
Nameserversdns4.p01.nsone.net, dns1.p02.nsone.net

Not measurable: wayback: rate limited by archive.org, ladder stopped after 1 probe(s); rdap: exceeded the overall budget; wayback: exceeded the overall budget; tls: exceeded the overall budget; dns: exceeded the overall budget; headers: exceeded the overall budget. A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

21

Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 96/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 7
  • Notices: 9

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
noticeImages are missing alt text1https://www.redhat.com/en
noticeImages are missing alt text1https://www.redhat.com/en
noticeImages are missing alt text1https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/channel/artificial-intelligence
warningTitle length should be reviewed9https://www.redhat.com/en/lightwell
noticeImages are missing alt text1https://www.redhat.com/en/products/ai/enterprise
warningPage should have one primary H10https://www.redhat.com/en/products/ai/enterprise-linux-ai
noticeImages are missing alt text1https://www.redhat.com/en/products/ai/enterprise-linux-ai
noticeImages are missing alt text1https://www.redhat.com/en/products/ai/openshift-ai
noticeImages are missing alt text3https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/ai
warningPage should have one primary H12https://www.redhat.com/en/services/consulting/red-hat-consulting-for-ai
noticeImages are missing alt text3https://www.redhat.com/en/services/consulting/red-hat-consulting-for-ai
noticeImages are missing alt text1https://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions/ai
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.redhat.com/en
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.redhat.com/en
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample2https://www.redhat.com/en
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample2https://www.redhat.com/en

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200Red Hat - We make open source technologies for the enterprise1228772 mshttps://www.redhat.com/en
200Red Hat - We make open source technologies for the enterprise1228731 mshttps://www.redhat.com/en
200Artificial intelligence (AI)11162342 mshttps://www.redhat.com/en/blog/channel/artificial-intelligence
200Live AI events from Red Hat11034173 mshttps://www.redhat.com/en/events/ai
200Why you should care about AI inference12321146 mshttps://www.redhat.com/en/artificial-intelligence/inference
200Artificial intelligence (AI) at Red Hat1147162 mshttps://www.redhat.com/en/artificial-intelligence
200Lightwell1155152 mshttps://www.redhat.com/en/lightwell
200Red Hat AI Enterprise1172767 mshttps://www.redhat.com/en/products/ai/enterprise
200Red Hat AI Inference1221134 mshttps://www.redhat.com/en/products/ai/inference
200Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI0211245 mshttps://www.redhat.com/en/products/ai/enterprise-linux-ai
200Red Hat OpenShift AI1202861 mshttps://www.redhat.com/en/products/ai/openshift-ai
200Red Hat AI1196870 mshttps://www.redhat.com/en/products/ai
200Understanding AI1240682 mshttps://www.redhat.com/en/topics/ai
200Red Hat Consulting for AI2137747 mshttps://www.redhat.com/en/services/consulting/red-hat-consulting-for-ai
200AI solutions from Red Hat1148359 mshttps://www.redhat.com/en/hybrid-cloud-solutions/ai

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

22

Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct40.9%
search38.7%
search organic36.9%
search paid1.8%
social4.4%
social organic4.3%
social paid0.2%
referrals9.8%
paid referrals0.9%
mail3.4%
gen ai1.9%
affiliate0.0%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

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Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages do not mention any competitors by name. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed pricing for self-managed editions, no explicit API documentation, and no independent review ratings. Open questions remain about data export capabilities and specific security certifications.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from redhat.com, including product pages, pricing pages, success stories, and press releases. The evidence catalog includes 15 static requests and 8 rendered pages. External proof search was enabled but only verified the existence of linked results; no external review content was collected. Limitations include potential outdated press releases and marketing-oriented content.

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