Application Modernization: Red Hat OpenShift is Now Integrated into Google Cloud Console
Red Hat and Google Cloud have extended their collaboration to help customers migrate their applications to the cloud and speed up application modernization processes. Practically, the effort has focused on the integration between the Google Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift platforms.
Red Hat OpenShift is now integrated into the Google Cloud console
Thanks to the enhancement of the collaboration between the two companies, Red Hat OpenShift is now directly integrated into the Google Cloud control console.
Numerous advantages arise from this. First and foremost, the onboarding process is simplified: users can natively verify the prerequisites required by Google Cloud and then proceed with a guided flow for provisioning the cluster from the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console. The economic aspect is also streamlined: companies can purchase the service through Google Cloud Marketplace with a pay-as-you-go model, maintaining a smoother management of procurement and invoicing.
On the functional front, Red Hat OpenShift now natively integrates with key services of the Google platform. The connections, jointly designed and supported by the two companies, include Google Cloud Secret Manager, Certificate Authority Service, and Workload Identity Federation.
New features of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
The rising costs and the complexity of managing increasingly heterogeneous environments are pushing many enterprises to rethink how they approach workload modernization. Many companies are looking for a platform capable of accommodating new solutions alongside existing ones without further increasing complexity. In this regard, Red Hat offers OpenShift Virtualization, a component of Red Hat OpenShift designed to bring virtual machines, containers, and serverless workloads under the same operational perimeter.
The idea is to overcome the separation between legacy infrastructure and cloud-native models, providing IT teams with a single Kubernetes environment where management, tools, and processes converge. The availability of the service on Google Cloud's bare metal C3 instances adds an important element, as it allows direct access to resources such as CPU and memory. This aspect particularly interests companies with application workloads sensitive to performance or with software licensing constraints, seeking not only elasticity from the cloud but also greater predictability.
Businesses can introduce modern development practices and tools to VM-based applications without having to rewrite them from scratch. At the same time, the presence of a common operational model allows for more coherent management of distributed environments across internal data centers, cloud, and edge.
The migration issue is also approached pragmatically. The transition from traditional virtualization can be managed while limiting operational downtime, supported by tools like Migration Toolkit for Virtualization and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. This way, companies can shift workloads to a more current architecture without losing the ability to maintain them in a hybrid logic, integrated between OpenShift and Google Cloud.
"Red Hat's hybrid cloud vision is based on consistency and the ability to run any workload, anywhere, with the same operational model," explains Mike Barrett, Vice President and General Manager, Hybrid Cloud Platforms at Red Hat. "The extension of the collaboration with Google Cloud offers organizations the complete cloud-native functionalities of Red Hat OpenShift, both to accelerate application development and to simplify cloud migration. Together, Red Hat and Google chart a clear and unified path to modernize the entire application portfolio, helping companies manage both traditional VMs and containerized applications on a single platform."
"Our customers are constantly seeking ways to simplify their infrastructure and accelerate innovation without sacrificing performance," comments Nirav Mehta, Vice President, Product Management – Google Cloud Compute Platform at Google Cloud. "We are pleased to deepen our collaboration with Red Hat for OpenShift on Google Cloud. Customers now have a smoother path to run virtualized and containerized workloads consistently on the secure, scalable, and high-performance global infrastructure of Google Cloud."