Red Hat, a worldwide leading provider of open source solutions, and Oracle are expanding their collaboration to break down barriers to hybrid cloud adoption, delivering a more consistent, cloud-native foundation that is critical for next-generation workloads including AI. This move brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift support to more deployment options on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), including government, sovereign, and distributed cloud services.
Red Hat and Oracle are strengthening their support and validation for the foundational technologies that will help empower IT teams both today and in the AI-driven future, according to the companies.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift on OCI now offer a comprehensive range of validated configurations. This extends their availability into even the most sensitive and regulated computing environments, including high-security government clouds and sovereign deployments adhering to specific regional mandates.
Red Hat OpenShift is now certified to run on OCI Roving Edge Infrastructure, Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.
Additionally, OCI customers can now use Red Hat Enterprise Linux on both OCI Dedicated Region Cloud and Oracle Alloy
In addition, Red Hat OpenShift now supports OCI Compute bare metal instances powered by NVIDIA A100 GPUs and OCI Compute bare metal instances powered by NVIDIA H100 GPUs.
This support expands the choices available to organizations building and scaling AI-powered applications, enabling high-performance model training and inference for demanding AI and ML workloads, the vendors said.
Oracle is now actively validating key applications and software, including Oracle WebLogic Server, to run as containers on Red Hat
In addition, the newly validated Oracle Cloud Scale Monetization portfolio on Red Hat OpenShift offers a significant advantage to communications service providers (CSPs).
Oracle Database, including Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), remains certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In addition, Red Hat has initiated a validation effort for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization to better support Oracle Database customers on this evolving platform.
As part of this initiative, Red Hat will review supported and commonly used on-premises configurations and provide guidance on how to deploy Oracle Database, including Oracle RAC where applicable, on OpenShift Virtualization.
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