Red Hat SummitChapter 1. What is the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console?
You can use the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console to access a comprehensive set of hosted services from a single interface. The Hybrid Cloud Console provides the content, tooling, and visibility developers and IT administrators need to build, deploy, and optimize workloads across the hybrid cloud.
From the Hybrid Cloud Console, you can connect with your various platforms and then centrally manage and automate your hybrid cloud and the deployments within it. Use the Hybrid Cloud Console to manage your Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) infrastructure, Red Hat OpenShift clusters, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform infrastructure, and application services.
You can perform the following tasks from the Hybrid Cloud Console:
- Use Red Hat Insights to reduce risk and downtime, improve compliance, and optimize spend for your RHEL , Ansible Automation Platform, and Red Hat OpenShift resources.
- View information about your RHEL systems, Red Hat OpenShift clusters, and Ansible Automation Platform nodes from a single interface.
- Manage, update, and deploy different types of Red Hat OpenShift clusters and install cluster add-ons such as data services.
- Deploy applications on Red Hat OpenShift.
- Manage security policies and build pipelines.
Additional resources
For more information about the Hybrid Cloud Console features and to start using console services, see the Hybrid Cloud Console information page.
1.1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the Hybrid Cloud Console
The Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console provides a centralized view into operations, security, and subscriptions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
Through tooling, rule-based analytical models, and the support of Red Hat, you can use the console to streamline many of the tasks and analysis required to build and deliver a stable and secure environment for applications on RHEL.
The following services are available on the Hybrid Cloud Console for RHEL:
- Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For more information about Red Hat Insights for RHEL, see the Red Hat Insights documentation page.
- Edge management. For information about RHEL and Edge management, see the Edge management documentation page.
- Repositories
- Image builder. For information about creating RHEL images, see Composing a customized RHEL system image.
- Subscriptions. For information about the Red Hat subscriptions service, see Getting Started with the Subscriptions Service.
Additional resources
- For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux, see the Cloud section on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux documentation page.
1.2. Red Hat OpenShift on the Hybrid Cloud Console
The Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console provides centralized reporting and management for Red Hat OpenShift clusters. Using the OpenShift Cluster Manager service, you can streamline and simplify how operators create, register, and upgrade Red Hat OpenShift clusters across supported environments. Additionally, Insights for OpenShift can monitor clusters for configuration problems, upgrade compatibility, and cost optimization.
The following services are available on the Hybrid Cloud Console for Red Hat OpenShift:
- Insights for OpenShift monitors the health of your OpenShift Container Platform clusters and helps you identify, prioritize, and resolve risks to service availability, fault tolerance, performance, and security. For information about using Insights Advisor to monitor your OpenShift cluster health, see Monitoring your OpenShift cluster health with Insights Advisor.
- Clusters contains your OpenShift cluster inventory, and provides the ability to create, manage, and delete OpenShift clusters. For more information about the console services you can use with Red Hat OpenShift, see the OpenShift Cluster Manager documentation page.
- Subscriptions provides the ability to monitor your usage and subscription information for your OpenShift clusters. For information about the Red Hat subscriptions service, see Getting Started with the Subscriptions Service.
Cost management aggregates and displays the costs of your OpenShift deployment and infrastructure across bare-metal servers, virtual machines, and private clouds and public cloud infrastructure, including AWS and Microsoft Azure. For information about cost management services, see the following guides:
- Developer sandbox provides you with a private OpenShift environment in a shared, multi-tenant OpenShift cluster that is pre-configured with a set of developer tools. For more information, see Deploying sandboxed containers in OpenShift Container Platform.
1.3. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on the Hybrid Cloud Console
The Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console provides a centralized view of analytics, content management, and policy and governance for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. It supports hybrid cloud automation on Ansible Automation Platform through the following features and components:
- Automation playbooks and collections that are tested and supported by Red Hat and our partners
- Aggregated health monitoring and analytics
- A private catalog to make automation available to appropriate teams at a faster pace
- Policy and governance that is applied to all of these resources
The following services are available on the Hybrid Cloud Console for the Ansible Automation Platform:
- Insights for Ansible Automation Platform
- Automation hub
- Automation analytics
- Remediations
Additional resources
- For information about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, see the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform documentation page.
- For information about using Red Hat automation hub as the default source for certified Ansible collections content, see Getting started with automation hub.
- For requirements, options, and recommendations for installing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, see the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Planning Guide.
For information about installing and configuring Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform from different sources, see the following guides:
