Chapter 1. Overview of OpenShift AI

Red Hat OpenShift AI is a platform for data scientists and developers of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) applications.

OpenShift AI provides an environment to develop, train, serve, test, and monitor AI/ML models and applications on-premise or in the cloud.

For data scientists, OpenShift AI includes Jupyter and a collection of default workbench images optimized with the tools and libraries required for model development, and the TensorFlow and PyTorch frameworks. Deploy and host your models, integrate models into external applications, and export models to host them in any hybrid cloud environment. You can enhance your data science projects on OpenShift AI by building portable machine learning (ML) workflows with data science pipelines, using Docker containers. You can also accelerate your data science experiments through the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) and Intel Gaudi AI accelerators.

For administrators, OpenShift AI enables data science workloads in an existing Red Hat OpenShift or ROSA environment. Manage users with your existing OpenShift identity provider, and manage the resources available to workbenches to ensure data scientists have what they require to create, train, and host models. Use accelerators to reduce costs and allow your data scientists to enhance the performance of their end-to-end data science workflows using graphics processing units (GPUs) and Intel Gaudi AI accelerators.

OpenShift AI has two deployment options:

For information about OpenShift AI supported software platforms, components, and dependencies, see the Red Hat OpenShift AI: Supported Configurations Knowledgebase article.

For a detailed view of the release lifecycle, including the full support phase window, see the Red Hat OpenShift AI Cloud Service Life Cycle Knowledgebase article.