Red Hat Developer Hub is available now

Red Hat, Inc., the provider of open-source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat Developer Hub, an enterprise-grade internal developer platform (IDP) based on  Backstage, an open-source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project. Featuring a self-service portal, standardized software templates, dynamic plug-in management, enterprise role-based access control (RBAC), and premium support, Red Hat Developer Hub provides organizations with tools and capabilities to overcome DevOps bottlenecks and address issues like complexity, lack of standardization, and cognitive load.

Red Hat Developer Hub general availability

Red Hat Developer Hub enables teams to accelerate development and deployment across platforms with more consistent and standardized pipelines. For organizations looking to standardize operations across the open hybrid cloud, Developer Hub is fully integrated with Red Hat OpenShift to unlock innovations like artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-native application architectures.

Tame complexity to accelerate and scale application development

According to industry analyst firm IDC, the digital business era has arrived. The firm predicts that “spending on digital technology by organizations will grow at 7x the economy in 2024, as companies are compelled by market demands to grow digital business models and strengthen digital capabilities.”

The advanced pace of doing business and competing in a digital-first economy has increased the pressure to create new sources of value through digital products, services, and experiences. Delivering on this promise has come at a cost for enterprise IT departments that now face extensive technical debt, skills gaps, architectural constraints, and security risks as a result of the sharp rise in IT complexity and lack of standardization in the development toolchain.

Accelerate onboarding and time-to-deliver software with a unified portal and standardized software templates

Red Hat Developer Hub addresses these challenges with a self-service portal that brings together all of the information that developers need, including access to various consoles, a unified software catalog, and up-to-date documentation within the same repository. Not only is this environment easier for teams to manage, but new team members can more easily find what they need as they familiarize themselves with tools and processes, and ultimately become productive faster.

Standardized software templates further streamline application and developer onboarding by abstracting ancillary tasks and technology details that can slow down the development and delivery process. With the click of a button, developers can get everything they need – best practices and pre-architected components from platform engineering teams – automatically built and ready to go so they can immediately start creating and delivering applications.

Customize and extend your development environment with technology plug-ins

Red Hat Developer Hub features the same plug-in architecture as the Backstage project, enabling users to integrate new capabilities into their development toolchain. With the new dynamic plug-in management capabilities in Red Hat Developer Hub, users can quickly and easily install, update, and remove plug-ins without having to plan for downtime to modify source code and rebuild and redeploy the base Backstage environment.

Red Hat has created several technology plug-ins based on feedback from users and contributed them to the Backstage community. These plug-ins are supported and verified for use with Red Hat Developer Hub, mitigating potential compatibility risks and operational issues. In addition, Red Hat Developer Hub is fully capable of running and accommodating community plug-ins, giving organizations greater control and flexibility over their environments.

Shift security left for more resilient development lifecycles

Software security is more than code. It spans people, processes, and tools. Building trust and transparency throughout the software development life cycle requires prioritizing the adoption of security measures across each of these vectors from the very beginning.

Red Hat Developer Hub simplifies and standardizes user management with role-based access control (RBAC) via a new plug-in. The RBAC plug-in gives administrators and project leads the ability to manage user access to the portal based on their role within a team. The plug-in can be connected to the organization’s authentication provider and mapped to custom workstream roles, allowing users to get the appropriate permissions for the software catalog and the associated data.

Red Hat Developer Hub is also complementary to and integrated with  Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain, a software supply chain security solution that offers an opinionated framework for curating trusted content at code-time, with an automated chain of trust that can verify pipeline compliance at build-time. These tools provide provenance and attestation for languages, frameworks, and dependencies used in the Red Hat Developer Hub portal, and give platform engineers the ability to respond with updates as needed for security and compliance more quickly.

Red Hat Trusted Application Pipelines, Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer, and Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer are currently available in technology preview, with general availability expected later this quarter.

General availability

Red Hat Developer Hub is now generally available with full support. Learn more and get started on the Red Hat website.

“Internal developer platforms provide that sweet spot where domain knowledge and best practices intersect with standardized tooling and processes, delivering a developer experience that results in higher productivity, faster time-to-market, and a more effective path to innovation. Red Hat Developer Hub enables organizations to fast-track the adoption of IDPs and scale them across the enterprise in a flexible, more secure and fully supported manner,” said Balaji Sivasubramanian, senior director, Developer Tools Product Management, Red Hat.

“Fragmentation of knowledge, lack of standardization across tools and documentation, and overwhelming complexity are all stifling innovation and making it hard for organizations to meet the needs of today’s digital business imperative. Platform engineering teams can help bring order to the chaos; however, building and maintaining custom portals can be difficult to scale over the long term. Red Hat Developer Hub takes the heavy lifting off of these teams and gives them the tools that support the collective DevOps effort so that developers can focus on writing code and delivering a competitive advantage for their organizations,” said Lara Greden, research director for Cloud Platforms at IDC.

“Developer efficiency and productivity are critical metrics for our business today. The more intentional we can be about implementing technologies that not only have a positive impact on what our developers can accomplish but how they work and who they work with, the better prepared we will be to compete and respond to market challenges in the future. For years, Red Hat has demonstrated its commitment to developers through its work in communities like Backstage, and we believe the launch of Red Hat Developer Hub will help fill the need for a fully supported, enterprise-grade distribution of the project,” said Robert Bauer, product manager, Bundesrechenzentrum GmbH.