Red Hat and Google Cloud Expand OpenShift Collaboration to Accelerate Enterprise Modernization
Red Hat today announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud aimed at helping organizations accelerate application modernization and cloud migrations, introducing deeper integrations and new capabilities for running enterprise workloads on Google Cloud.
As part of the expansion, Red Hat OpenShift is now available directly within the Google Cloud console, providing customers with a more streamlined path to deploy and manage workloads. This integration enables users to validate prerequisites natively and move through a guided cluster provisioning experience, improving onboarding and operational efficiency.
The collaboration also introduces unified billing and procurement through Google Cloud Marketplace, allowing organizations to apply Red Hat OpenShift subscription costs toward their existing Google Cloud committed spend. In addition, customers gain access to deeper integrations with Google Cloud services, including Google Cloud Secret Manager, Certificate Authority Service, and Workload Identity Federation, enabling more seamless and secure operations across environments.
A key component of the announcement is the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud. This capability allows organizations to run virtual machines alongside containers and serverless workloads on a unified Kubernetes platform, helping bridge legacy infrastructure with modern cloud-native architectures.
Running on Google Cloud C3 bare metal instances, OpenShift Virtualization provides direct access to CPU and memory resources for performance-sensitive workloads. This supports organizations in modernizing applications at their own pace while maintaining predictable performance and minimizing disruption during migration.
The companies stated that the combined platform enables consistent management across hybrid environments, allowing IT teams to operate workloads across on-premises infrastructure, cloud, and edge environments using a unified toolset and operational model. Migration tools, including the migration toolkit for virtualization and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, further support transitions from traditional virtualization to modern cloud-native environments.
Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud is positioned as a fully managed application platform supported by global Site Reliability Engineers and built-in automation, helping reduce operational overhead while improving scalability, reliability, and performance for enterprise applications.
“Red Hat’s hybrid cloud vision is built on consistency – the ability to run any workload, anywhere, with the same operational model,” said Mike Barrett, vice president and general manager, Hybrid Cloud Platforms at Red Hat. “This extended collaboration with Google Cloud further empowers organizations with comprehensive cloud-native capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift.”
“Our customers are constantly looking for ways to simplify their infrastructure and accelerate innovation without sacrificing performance,” said Nirav Mehta, vice president of Product Management for Google Cloud Compute Platform. “This collaboration provides a smoother path to run both virtualized and containerized workloads consistently on Google Cloud’s infrastructure.”