Red Hat, Google Cloud collaborate for OpenShift integration into Google Cloud console

Red Hat is collaborating with Google Cloud to integrate Red Hat OpenShift into the Google Cloud console and unveil the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud.

The idea is to provide an application platform where customers can build, deploy, manage and scale containerised, virtualised and AI applications on Google Cloud.

Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated users can natively validate Google Cloud prerequisites before transitioning to a guided cluster provisioning flow within the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.

Organisations can use flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing through Google Cloud Marketplace that counts their Red Hat OpenShift subscription costs against their Google Cloud committed spend.

Red Hat OpenShift users can also use Google-native service integrations through jointly engineered and supported integrations such as Google Cloud Secret Manager, Certificate Authority Service, and Workload Identity Federation.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, which is built into OpenShift, is designed to bridge the gap between legacy infrastructure and modern innovation, Red Hat said. It does this by unifying traditional virtual machines with containers and serverless workloads on a Kubernetes platform.

“This extended collaboration with Google Cloud further empowers organisations with comprehensive cloud-native capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift, whether they need to accelerate application development or streamline migration to the cloud,” said Mike Barrett, vice president and general manager, Hybrid Cloud Platforms at Red Hat.

“Together, Red Hat and Google provide a clear, unified path for organisations to modernise their entire application portfolio, helping them manage both their traditional VMs and containerised applications on a single platform.”

“Our customers are constantly looking for ways to simplify their infrastructure and accelerate innovation without sacrificing performance,” said Nirav Mehta, vice president, product management at Google Cloud Compute Platform.

“We are pleased to deepen our collaboration with Red Hat for OpenShift on Google Cloud. Customers now have a smoother path, enabling them to run both virtualised and containerised workloads consistently on Google Cloud's global, secure, and performant infrastructure.”

OpenShift Virtualization is available on Google Cloud C3 bare metal instances.