About Red Hat Developer Hub
Introduction to Red Hat Developer Hub
Abstract
Preface
Red Hat Developer Hub is a fully supported, open developer platform that reduces friction and frustration of developers while boosting productivity.
This platform is driven by a centralized software catalog, providing efficiency to your microservices and infrastructure.
Use Red Hat Developer Hub to simplify decision-making through a selection of internally approved tools, programming languages, and developer resources within a self-managed portal.
Chapter 1. Benefits of Red Hat Developer Hub
- Increased developer productivity
- Eliminates common organizational challenges, enabling seamless collaboration, and providing clear guidelines for creating, developing, and deploying applications.
- Unified Self-Service Dashboard
Provides development teams with a unified dashboard. Your platform engineering team can curate aspects such as:
- Git
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
- Static Application Security Testing (SAST)/Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
- Supply Chain
- OpenShift/Kubernetes cluster
- JIRA
- Monitoring
- API
- Documentation
- Best practices through software templates
Automates organizational best practices by encoding common tasks such as:
- Creating new applications
- Running Ansible jobs
- Establishing CI/CD pipelines for production deployment in Git
- Scalable technical documentation
- Code and documentation is in the same repository, eliminating dependencies on proprietary document systems.
- Efficient onboarding for new developers
- New developers can adapt quickly and become productive within a short time frame.
- Robust enterprise Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Empowers administrators to:
- Create roles
- Assign users or groups to roles
- Implement robust security policies for enhanced access control
Additional resources
- For more information about the different features of Red Hat Developer Hub and how to extend it, see Red Hat Developer Hub overview.
Chapter 2. Integrations in Red Hat Developer Hub
Red Hat Developer Hub integrates seamlessly with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and other tools, enabling comprehensive development and deployment workflows across enterprise.
2.1. Integration with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Red Hat Developer Hub is fully integrated with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, offering:
- Operators to manage application lifecycle.
- Access to advanced OpenShift capabilities such as service mesh, serverless functions, GitOps, and distributed tracing.
- Pipelines and GitOps plugins for streamlined cloud-native workflows.
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- Code scanning
- Image building
- Vulnerability detection
- Deployment
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2.3. Extending Backstage with Red Hat Developer Hub
Red Hat Developer Hub which is a fully supported, enterprise-grade productized version of upstream Backstage extends the upstream project by adding:
- Enhanced search capabilities that aggregate data from CI/CD pipelines, cloud providers, source control, and more.
- A centralized software catalog for locating applications, APIs, and resources.
- Automation through open-source plugins that expand Backstage’s core functionality.
- Simplified technical documentation using Markdown and GitHub, with integrated search for easy navigation.
Chapter 3. Supported platforms
You can find the supported platforms and life cycle dates for both current and past versions of Red Hat Developer Hub on the Life Cycle page.
Chapter 4. Sizing requirements for Red Hat Developer Hub
Scaling the Red Hat Developer Hub requires significant resource allocation. The following table lists the sizing requirements for installing and running Red Hat Developer Hub, including Developer Hub application, database components, and Operator.
| Components | Red Hat Developer Hub application | Red Hat Developer Hub database | Red Hat Developer Hub Operator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Processing Unit (CPU) | 4 vCPU | 2 vCPU | 1 vCPU |
| Memory | 16 GB | 8 GB | 1500 Mi |
| Storage size | 2 GB | 20 GB | 50 Mi |
| Replicas | 2 or more | 3 or more | 1 or more |
Chapter 5. Red Hat Developer Hub support
If you experience difficulty with a procedure described in this documentation, visit the Red Hat Customer Portal. You can use the Red Hat Customer Portal for the following purposes:
- To search or browse through the Red Hat Knowledgebase of technical support articles about Red Hat products.
- To create a support case for Red Hat Global Support Services (GSS). For support case creation, select Red Hat Developer Hub as the product and select the appropriate product version.
- For detailed information about supported platforms and life cycle details, see Red Hat Developer Hub Life Cycle.
