Red Hat and Google Cloud Expand Collaboration to Accelerate Application Modernization and Cloud Migration with Red Hat OpenShift

AMSTERDAM – KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVE CON EU – March 26, 2026 —

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to help organizations accelerate application modernization and cloud migrations. This extension introduces Red Hat OpenShift in the Google Cloud console, deeper integrations with Google Cloud services and marks the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud.

Today’s announcement reinforces both companies’ shared commitment to provide a comprehensive application platform where enterprises can confidently build, deploy, manage and scale containerized, virtualized and AI applications on Google Cloud. Customers can work with the assurance that both Red Hat and Google are committed to the performance, security and continued success of applications running on Red Hat OpenShift on Google Cloud.

Improved workload flexibility on Google Cloud

Red Hat OpenShift is now available in the Google Cloud console. This makes it easier for customers to find the right solution to run their workload on Google Cloud and guides users through a more seamless onboarding experience. Key benefits include:

• Streamlines on board: Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated users can natively validate Google Cloud prerequisites before transitioning to a guided cluster provisioning flow within the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.
• Uniform billing and procurement: Organizations can take advantage of flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing through Google Cloud Marketplace that counts their Red Hat OpenShift subscription cost against their Google Cloud dedicated spend.
• Native Service Integrations: Red Hat OpenShift users can unlock the power of Google native integrations through co-designed and supported integrations with key services such as Google Cloud Secret Manager, Certificate Authority Service and Workload Identity Federation among others.

Modernizing infrastructure with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Faced with rising costs and increased complexity, organizations today need solutions that enable them to migrate workloads and modernize at their own pace. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualizationa built-in capability of Red Hat OpenShift, bridges the gap between legacy infrastructure and modern innovation by unifying traditional virtual machines (VMs) with containers and serverless workloads on a consistent Kubernetes platform. Users benefit from one interface, one toolset and one set of operational practices across all workloads.

Available on Google Cloud C3 bare metal instances, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization enables organizations with direct access to CPU and memory resources for performance-sensitive or license-constrained workloads, helping to support modernization while maintaining predictable performance in the cloud to achieve:

• Accelerated Modernization: Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud brings modern application development processes and tools to VMs, enabling organizations to accelerate the modernization of VM-based applications at their own pace.
• Consistent management across hybrid environments: With a unified operational model, IT teams can consistently manage VMs and containers across on-premises, cloud and edge environments, improving efficiency and gaining flexibility.
• Simplified migration: Organizations gain flexibility to migrate from traditional virtualization with minimal downtime through tools such as the migration toolkit for virtualization and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to ease the transition to a modern offering with flexibility to bring these workloads to a consistent hybrid approach with OpenShift and Google Cloud.
• Improved scalability and reliability: Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud enables organizations to achieve more predictable performance, elastic scaling and stronger SLAs, backed by a comprehensive application platform and highly scalable infrastructure.

Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated to Google Cloud is a fully managed application platform that enables customers to focus on building and scaling applications that drive their core business. Global Site Reliability Engineers and built-in automation reduce operational overhead and improve efficiency.

To experience these new capabilities and accelerate the modernization journey, organizations can explore Red Hat OpenShift directly within the Google Cloud console. Additionally, organizations can begin their modernization journey at their own pace Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated to Google Cloud.

Supporting citations

Mike Barrett, Vice President and General Manager, Hybrid Cloud Platforms, Red Hat

“Red Hat’s hybrid cloud vision is built on consistency – the ability to run any workload, anywhere, with the same operational model. This expanded collaboration with Google Cloud further empowers organizations with comprehensive cloud-native capabilities from Red Hat OpenShift, whether they need to accelerate application development or streamline migration to the cloud. Together, Red Hat and Google help manage their entire organization to unify their modern portfolio, co-manage traditional VMs and containerized applications on a single platform.”

Nirav Mehta, Vice President, Product Management – Google Cloud Compute Platform, Google Cloud

“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 hosted workloads consistently on Google Cloud’s global, secure and performant infrastructure.”