
Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today introduced OpenShift
Primed, a new partner designation to recognize a growing ecosystem
of independent software vendors (ISVs) who are integrating solutions
with Openshift, Red Hat’s container application platform. As global
enterprise customers explore container adoption, OpenShift Primed is
designed to not only recognize partners in active development with
OpenShift, but also give customers better visibility to solutions being
built around OpenShift.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (formerly known as OpenShift
Enterprise) is the industry’s first web-scale container application
platform based on Docker-format Linux containers, Kubernetes
orchestration, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. As interest
in containers moves from development and testing into production,
Red Hat is committed to fostering a strong ecosystem of container-ready
solutions that can run across the datacenter's
four footprints while maintaining the strong application consistency
ISVs require.
OpenShift Primed is a technical readiness program whose designation
acknowledges the first steps of an ISV integrating its applications with
OpenShift and the steps these ISVs take as they move towards Red
Hat Container Certification as part of Red Hat’s Technology Partner
program. Via OpenShift Primed, not only can ISVs making the move to
containers benefit, but so can other partners with OpenShift
technologies -- including infrastructure and Software-as-a-Service
partners. To qualify, ISVs must submit technical evidence (e.g. source
code, how-to guides, or video demonstrations) showing integration with
any variant of OpenShift, including OpenShift Origin. Once approved,
partners gain access to various marketing resources, helping to raise
awareness that their solutions are in active development with OpenShift,
and showcasing their solutions to Red Hat’s customer base seeking
container technology solutions.
Customers can also view OpenShift Primed solutions on the OpenShift
Hub, offering insight into an extensive ecosystem of ISV solutions
that can complement their Red Hat deployments. Existing OpenShift
customers can access and review the catalog of OpenShift Primed
solutions and test them in their own environments according to specific
technology needs.
At launch, more than 15 ISVs have earned the OpenShift Primed
designation, including: 3scale; 6fusion; CloudBees; CloudMunch;
Couchbase; Crunchy Data; Diamanti; Dynatrace; GitLab; Iron.io; NGINX;
Nuage Networks; Pachyderm; Roambee; and Sysdig.