Red Hat announced on March 26 an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud, introducing Red Hat OpenShift in the Google Cloud console and making Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization generally available on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud.
The move aims to help organizations modernize applications and migrate workloads more efficiently by providing integrated tools for both virtualized and containerized environments. The companies say these developments offer customers a streamlined path for running workloads while maintaining performance, security, and flexibility.
According to Nirav Mehta, vice president of product management at Google Cloud Compute Platform, “Our customers are constantly looking for ways to simplify their infrastructure and accelerate innovation without sacrificing performance. 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 virtualized and containerized workloads consistently on Google Cloud’s global, secure, and performant infrastructure.”
Red Hat said that the new offerings allow users to access Red Hat OpenShift directly within the Google Cloud console. Key benefits include streamlined onboarding through guided cluster provisioning flows, unified billing via flexible pay-as-you-go pricing that counts toward existing cloud commitments, and native integrations with services such as Secret Manager and Certificate Authority Service.
Mike Barrett, vice president and general manager of Hybrid Cloud Platforms at Red Hat said: “Red Hat’s hybrid cloud vision is built on consistency – the ability to run any workload, anywhere, with the same operational model. This extended collaboration with Google Cloud further empowers organizations with comprehensive cloud-native capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift… Together, Red Hat and Google provide a clear, unified path for organizations to modernize their entire application portfolio…”
The general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization allows organizations using legacy virtual machines (VMs) or containers a single platform managed through one interface across different environments including cloud or edge locations. The solution also offers direct access to CPU and memory resources via C3 bare metal instances in the cloud for performance-sensitive tasks.
Both companies encourage interested organizations to explore these new features directly in the Google Cloud console as they plan their modernization journeys.
