Red Hat Developer Hub Now Generally Available

Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Developer Hub, an enterprise-grade internal developer platform (IDP) based on Backstage, an open source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project. Featuring a self-service portal, standardized software templates, dynamic plug-in management, enterprise role based access control (RBAC) and premium support, Red Hat Developer Hub provides organizations with tools and capabilities to overcome DevOps bottlenecks and address issues like complexity, lack of standardization and cognitive load.

Red Hat Developer Hub enables teams to accelerate development and deployment across any platform with more consistent and standardized pipelines. For organizations looking to standardize operations across the open hybrid cloud, Developer Hub is fully integrated with Red Hat OpenShift to unlock innovations like artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud native application architectures.

Tame complexity to accelerate and scale application development

According to industry analyst firm IDC, the digital business era has arrived. The firm predicts that “spending on digital technology by organizations will grow at 7x the economy in 2024, as companies are compelled by market demands to grow digital business models and strengthen digital capabilities.”

The advanced pace of doing business and competing in a digital-first economy has increased the pressure to create new sources of value through digital products, services and experiences. Delivering on this promise has come at a cost for enterprise IT departments that now face extensive technical debt, skills gaps, architectural constraints and security risks as a result of the sharp rise in IT complexity and lack of standardization in the development toolchain.

Accelerate onboarding and time-to-deliver software with a unified portal and standardized software templates

Red Hat Developer Hub addresses these challenges with a self-service portal that brings together all of the information that developers need, including access to various consoles, a unified software catalog, and up-to-date documentation within the same repository. Not only is this environment easier for teams to manage, but new team members can more easily find what they need as they familiarize themselves with tools and processes, and ultimately become productive faster.

Standardized software templates further streamline application and developer onboarding by abstracting ancillary tasks and technology details that can slow down the development and delivery process. With the click of a button, developers can get everything they need – best practices and pre-architected components from platform engineering teams – automatically built and ready to go so they can immediately start creating and delivering applications.

Customize and extend your development environment with technology plug-ins

Red Hat Developer Hub features the same plug-in architecture as the Backstage project, enabling users to integrate new capabilities into their development toolchain. With the new dynamic plug-in management capabilities in Red Hat Developer Hub, users can quickly and easily install, update and remove plug-ins without having to plan for downtime to modify source code, and rebuild and redeploy the base Backstage environment.

Red Hat has created a number of technology plug-ins based on feedback from users, and contributed them to the Backstage community. These plug-ins are supported and verified for use with Red Hat Developer Hub, mitigating potential compatibility risks and operational issues. In addition, Red Hat Developer Hub is fully capable of running and accommodating community plug-ins, giving organizations greater control and flexibility over their environments.

Explore Red Hat plug-ins for Backstage or browse the full catalog of Backstage community plug-ins.

Shift security left for more resilient development life cycles

Software security is more than code. It spans people, processes and tools. Building trust and transparency throughout the software development life cycle requires prioritizing the adoption of security measures across each of these vectors from the very beginning.

Red Hat Developer Hub simplifies and standardizes user management with role-based access control (RBAC) via a new plug-in available today. The RBAC plug-in gives administrators and project leads the ability to manage user access to the portal based on their role within a team. The plug-in can be connected to the organization’s authentication provider and mapped to custom workstream roles, allowing users to get appropriate permissions for the software catalog and the associated data.

Red Hat Developer Hub is also complementary to and integrated with Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain, a software supply chain security solution that offers an opinionated framework for curating trusted content at code-time, with an automated chain of trust that can verify pipeline compliance at build-time. These tools provide provenance and attestation for languages, frameworks and dependencies used in the Red Hat Developer Hub portal, and give platform engineers the ability to more quickly respond with updates as needed for security and compliance.

Red Hat Trusted Application Pipelines, Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer, and Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer are currently available in technology preview, with general availability expected later this quarter.

Availability

Red Hat Developer Hub is now generally available with full support. Learn more and get started at https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/developer-hub