Red Hat expands collaboration with Google Cloud

Red Hat has expanded its collaboration with Google Cloud with the aim of helping organisations accelerate application modernisation and cloud migration.

As part of the agreement, Red Hat OpenShift has been added to the Google Cloud Console, to make it easier for customers to find the right solution for running their workloads on Google Cloud.

RedHat OpenShift Dedicated users will be able to natively validate Google Cloud prerequisites before transitioning to a guided cluster provisioning flow within Red Hat’s own Hybrid Cloud Console, while organisations will be able to use pay-as-you-go pricing through Google Cloud Marketplace that counts their OpenShift subscription costs against their Google Cloud committed spend.

The agreement also covers the introduction of jointly engineered integrations with services such as Google Cloud Secret Manager, Certificate Authority Service and Workload Identity Federation.

Meanwhile Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation is now available on Google Cloud C3 bare metal instances, which will provide organisations with direct access to CPU and memory resources for performance-sensitive or licensing-constrained workloads.

Red Hat says the Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud solution will provide IT teams with a unified operational model, the ability to migrate from traditional to cloud-based virtualisation with minimal downtime, and access to modern application and development tools on virtual machines.

Red Hat VP and GM for Hybrid Cloud Platforms Mike Barrett said the company’s hybrid cloud vision is based on the ability to run any workload anywhere within the same operational model.

“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,” he said. “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.”

Google Cloud VP for Product Management Google Cloud Compute Platform Nirav Mehta said the partnership will enable the company to meet customer demand for ways to simplify their infrastructure without sacrificing performance.

“We are pleased to deepen our collaboration with Red Hat for OpenShift on Google Cloud,” he said. “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.”

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