Chapter 1. About Red Hat Developer Hub
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.
1.1. 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.
