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Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Deploy and scale containers on Azure Red Hat OpenShift, a fully managed application platform monitored and operated jointly by Microsoft.
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OVERVIEW

Build and deploy applications with a fully managed application platform

  • Explore the benefits that companies have experienced with Azure Red Hat OpenShift, including a reduction in development time by up to 70 percent.1
  • Save time, move faster, and reduce the complexity of IT operations with a team of specialized site reliability engineers who automate the deployment and management of OpenShift clusters.
  • Shift workloads quickly and easily to Azure with the landing zone accelerator approach for Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
  • Operationalize AI faster and build business-ready AI applications anywhere with Azure OpenAI Service and Red Hat OpenShift AI on Azure Red hat OpenShift.
FEATURES

Deploy cloud-native apps with confidence

Turnkey application platform

Get built-in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, monitoring, logging, Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), service mesh, and serverless capabilities developed on trusted open-source projects.

Enterprise-grade reliability

Deploy highly-available clusters with a service-level agreement (SLA) of 99.95% availability backed by automatic scaling, self-healing, and disaster recovery capabilities. Get built-in redundancy across availability zones to keep your applications running with a jointly supported platform from Microsoft and Red Hat.

Global scale

Deploy clusters across more than 60 Azure regions worldwide. Ensure optimal performance with automated load balancing and geo-replication capabilities that bring your applications closer to your users.

Simplified Azure operations

Access Azure Red Hat OpenShift directly from the Azure portal, with simplified Azure operations, and apply your Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment.

Comprehensive developer tools and services

Accelerate development with built-in open-source databases, frameworks, application services, third-party tools, and Helm deployments.

Application development and delivery

Streamline workflows to get to production faster using built-in OpenShift Pipelines and builds for Red Hat OpenShift technology and go straight from application code to container.
Security

Built-in security and compliance 

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Pricing

Flexible and on-demand pricing

Azure Red Hat OpenShift charges for the virtual machines (VMs) provisioned in the clusters and OpenShift licenses based on the VM instance selected. Deploy a cluster using on-demand pricing or purchase OpenShift worker node reserved instances, whichever best meets the needs of your workload and business.

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Cluster Architecture

An Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) cluster requires: 

  • 3 control plane (master) nodes for cluster management
  • 3 or more worker nodes for running your applications
Node Pricing Structure
  • All nodes run on Azure Virtual Machines with standard Linux VM pricing
  • Worker nodes incur an additional OpenShift license fee
  • Control plane nodes include the OpenShift license in the base price
Resource Billing
All cluster resources (compute, networking, storage) are billed based on actual usage. Choose between: 
  • On-demand pricing for flexible workloads
  • Reserved instance pricing for predictable workloads and cost savings up to 59%
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CUSTOMER STORIES

Customers are doing great things on Azure Red Hat OpenShift

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"The elasticity of the cloud allowed us to consider how we could do things differently (cloud native), including adding automation with infrastructure as code ...."
Nicholas Laine, Director of IT – Cloud and Platform Architecture, Teranet
<0.5%
Change failure rate after implementing automation
CAD5.6M
Savings in capital expenditures for 2023
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Symend reimagines empathetic customer engagement on Microsoft Azure

Symend is revolutionizing customer engagement with their Azure-powered Conscious Engagement platform.
5x
Increase in email engagement
45%
Reduction in calls to call center
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Global leader in cattle improvement creates new digital innovations for farmers

CRV uses data to advise farmers on how to monitor their herd’s health, fertility, and feeding targets, along with developing tools that help them manage their farm’s carbon footprint.
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Energy company focuses on business objectives with a cloud native solution

VINCI Energies uses containers to run in their central ERP system in the cloud with the flexibility to scale up and down to suit its data needs, without spending time managing its underlying infrastructure.
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RESOURCES

Featured Azure Red Hat OpenShift resources and documentation

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Intro to Azure Red Hat OpenShift

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Regional availability

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Support lifecycle for Azure Red Hat OpenShift

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Azure Red Hat OpenShift Roadmap

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Frequently asked questions

  • Azure Red Hat OpenShift is a fully managed OpenShift service on Microsoft Azure, co-managed by Microsoft and Red Hat. It combines the power of Red Hat OpenShift, an enterprise Kubernetes platform, with the scalability, security, and integration features of Azure. Deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on Azure while benefiting from automated updates, monitoring, and security patches. Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides a robust environment for building, deploying, and managing cloud-native applications.
  • Azure Red Hat OpenShift builds upon Kubernetes with a complete, enterprise-ready platform. Unlike basic Kubernetes, it includes pre-integrated components: container management, automation, networking, CI/CD, monitoring, registry, and authentication—all tested together. Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides fully managed operations with automated upgrades, enhanced security, integrated developer tools, and simplified management through the Azure portal with unified billing and support. 
  • Yes. Switching to Azure Red Hat OpenShift is seamless because it's built on upstream Kubernetes projects. Transition with minimal disruption while keeping your preferred languages, frameworks, and databases. Your Kubernetes resources will be compatible, and you'll gain access to embedded CI/CD, a container catalog, and image streams. Or, use your existing pipeline with Azure Red Hat OpenShift for a smooth migration, enhancing development with enterprise features and managed services benefits.
  • No, you don't need to sign a contract with Red Hat. Azure Red Hat OpenShift billing falls under Azure paid services.
  • Request support in the Azure portal. Microsoft and Red Hat engineers will triage and address your request.
  • Review the product availability by region page for more information.
  • Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides a service-level agreement (SLA) of 99.95% availability. Review the SLA page for more information.
  • OpenShift is Red Hat's enterprise Kubernetes platform that enhances standard Kubernetes with a suite of tools for building, deploying, and managing containerized applications at scale. It integrates developer workflows, CI/CD pipelines, security controls, monitoring solutions, and automated operations to provide a complete container platform that simplifies development and operations tasks. It’s available either as self-managed software or as managed cloud services like Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
  • Azure Red Hat OpenShift is primarily a platform as a service (PaaS), offering a complete platform for building, deploying, and managing applications with integrated tools for CI/CD, security, and monitoring. While it’s built on Kubernetes (often categorized as a CaaS or Container as a Service), Azure Red Hat OpenShift goes beyond container orchestration by providing a higher-level solution for application management, making it more of a PaaS with container orchestration capabilities.
  • Up to 250 worker nodes.
  • No. You can start an Azure Red Hat OpenShift cluster and pay as you go, or purchase a reserved instance to save costs.
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    Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift Provides More Value And Support To Cloud-First Organizations, a Forrester Consulting Total Economic ImpactTM Spotlight commissioned by Red Hat, March 2024.