By Sofiah Nichole Salivio
Publication Date: 2026-03-29 22:00:00
Red Hat and Google Cloud have expanded their collaboration around Red Hat OpenShift on Google Cloud. The update adds Red Hat OpenShift to the Google Cloud Console and makes Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization generally available on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud.
The changes target organisations moving applications into cloud environments while still running older virtual machine-based systems. By bringing OpenShift into Google Cloud’s main management interface, the companies aim to reduce the number of steps needed to set up and run workloads.
Users of Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated can now validate Google Cloud prerequisites natively before entering a guided cluster provisioning flow in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console. This is intended to simplify onboarding for customers deploying clusters on Google Cloud.
Billing and procurement have also been more closely aligned. Organisations can buy through Google Cloud Marketplace on a pay-as-you-go basis, and Red Hat OpenShift subscription costs count toward Google Cloud committed spend.
The update also includes tighter integration with Google Cloud services, including Secret Manager, Certificate Authority Service, and Workload Identity Federation.
Virtual machines
The expanded collaboration also covers Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, now generally available on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud. The product is designed to let companies run traditional virtual machines alongside containers and…