Red Hat Open Shift is becoming popular and there are many reasons behind it. It helps develop applications faster and deploy software more frequently. Also, it cut down operations expenses and application portability across hybrid cloud and multicloud footprints.

And that’s not all. Read this article to learn many of the OpenShift platform’s benefits to understand how it can transform your IT operations and development process. But before that, let’s understand what the Red Hat Open Shift Platform is.

What Is Red Hat Open Shift?

Red Hat Open Shift is an open-source container application platform. It is built on Docker containers and Kubernetes container cluster Documents.

It supports many services and programming languages ranging from web databases, frameworks, or connectors to external back ends. The platform supports both traditional, stateful and cloud-native, stateless applications.

The platform brings IT operations and developers on a single platform to build, deploy, and manage applications consistently across hybrid cloud and multicloud infrastructures.
It comes in three flavors as mentioned below:

●  Red Hat Open Shift Container Platform

●  Red Hat Open Shift Dedicated

●  Red Hat Open Shift Online

Benefits of Red Hat Open Shift Platform

Helps with Security and Monitoring

Reports say around 25% of images in official Docker repositories have high priority vulnerabilities. CloudForms and security scanners (e.g. OpenSCAP) can help as they allow to add further security capabilities. And the best part is OpenShift includes CloudForms to help manage the cluster and its infrastructure.

You can also use the platform to identify and respond to environmental changes by sensing configuration changes, monitoring activities, and capturing events.

Zero Restrictions

Red Hat Open Shift incorporates both Open Containers Initiative (OCI)/Docker-formatted containers and Kubernetes for container orchestration, along with other open-source technologies.

This means you or users are not restricted to the technology or business roadmap of a specific vendor.

Ensure Quality Application Development

Red Hat Open Shift helps develop powerful applications. This is because developers have more environments to test. They can do various stages of tests from UAT, QA, and dev.

It also brings more agility and makes sure there is almost zero opportunity for making any errors, especially on the deployment and releases.

Expedite Development Lifecycle

Open Shift is your best bet if you want to get to market quickly. Developers can use various frameworks, languages, and databases on the same platform with ease. They can quickly and easily create applications on-demand from the tools they use most. This makes it easy to develop applications faster than ever before.

Also, OpenShift has a great community of users and contributors availability. So you can immediately get help with any issues or problems you might be facing while developing new features and fixing bugs. This makes your job easier.

Increase Productivity

Like mentioned earlier, Open Shift speeds up the application development process which helps developers create more applications than before. This means they contribute substantially more value to your organization. Freeing up developer’s time means more time invested in innovation and enhanced functionality for applications and services, which will help you drive additional business and increase employee productivity.

Moreover, meeting demand for compelling and high-quality business applications and services on the OpenShift platform leads to improved business results.

Reduces IT Infrastructure Costs

You need to do fewer testing and would not require many production servers when you use the Red Hat Open Shift platform for development. This is because the Open Shift platform supports microservices, containerization, and multitenancy which cut down infrastructural expenses even if you expand.

Below we explain some of the features of the Red Hat Open Shift platform and how that translates into benefits.

Offers Persistent Storage: Red Hat Open Shift Container platform supports persistent storage to allow users to run both cloud-native stateless and existing, traditional stateful applications.

Powerful User Interfaces: Open Shift platform provides developers direct access to a multi-device web console, an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDEs), a rich set of command-line tools, and container-native CodeReady Workspaces.

Long story short, the Red Hat Open Shift platform offers a consistent application development and deployment platform, regardless of the underlying infrastructure.

And it provides you or the operations teams with a secure, scalable, and enterprise-grade application platform and unified container and cloud management capabilities.