Red Hat Software Certification

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Explore release notes, feature updates, and key changes.

Release Notes

Review new features, deprecations, known issues, and bug fixes for Red Hat software certification releases to understand their impact on your software or validation workflows.

Get started

Complete essential onboarding tasks to start using the product.

Explore software certification partnerships

Explore partner opportunities and evaluate the business value of certifying your software with Red Hat to determine if the program aligns with your company's goals.

Learn policies and set up partner accounts

Register your partner account to secure authorized access to the partner platform, and learn about software eligibility, supported architectures, and testing policies.

Core tasks

Complete essential tasks, from planning through day-to-day operations.

Plan an efficient certification strategy

Choose the most efficient testing strategy when certifying your software across multiple platforms or footprints to minimize redundant work and launch your product faster.

Certify applications for RHEL

Verify that your software complies with Red Hat packaging and runtime standards by certifying standard applications for RHEL.

Go further

Explore advanced use cases, ongoing maintenance, and troubleshooting paths.

Validate your product and manage its lifecycle

Validate your product and manage its lifecycle

Manage product components and certification relations

Register and map sub-components under your main product profile, inherit compliance validations through certification relations, and associate certified components with new products to avoid duplicate testing.

Run tests in disconnected environments

Configure and run the certification test suite in connected or disconnected environments, analyze execution logs to resolve policy violations, and verify specific assets using preflight for containers, chart verifier for Helm charts, or the operator pipel

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