As open source proves critical for managing hybrid cloud environments, the partnership between Red Hat Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. grows stronger.

One example being the heavily integrated Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, ROSA, which is an open-source managed service aimed at helping enterprises address their diverse, fragmented environments.

“[This] is a jointly managed service,” said Joe Fernandes (pictured, right), vice president and general manager for core cloud platforms at Red Hat. “It’s a native AWS service offering; you can get it right through the AWS console, you can leverage your AWS committed spend. But, most importantly, it’s something that we’re working on together, bringing new customers to the table for both Red Hat and AWS.”

Fernandes and Gunnar Hellekson (pictured, left), director of product management for Linux and virtualization at Red Hat, spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during AWS re:Invent. They discussed the evolution of the Red Hat and AWS partnership to drive customers’ hybrid cloud strategy, as well as the specific demands of these increasingly common business IT infrastructures. (* Disclosure below.)

Providing operational consistency across all platforms

A major challenge for enterprises with distributed environments is having operational consistency across platforms. Companies don’t want completely different toolsets on-premises, in the cloud and at the edge as they move from one to the other, and that is why they see value on both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift, according to Hellekson.

In addition to the infrastructure being hybrid, the application portfolios are also increasingly hybrid, with a mix of traditional monolithic applications and new cloud native services that were built from scratch or are existing applications that have been refactored.

“And then they’re moving beyond the applications to make better use of data, also evolving their processes for how they build, deploy and manage, leveraging [continuous integration/continuous delivery] and GitOps and so forth,” Fernandes stated. “For us, it’s how do you help enterprises bring all that together, manage this hybrid infrastructure that’s supporting this hybrid portfolio of applications?”

Red Hat has also focused on integrating RHEL natively with AWS services, making it easier to operate on the AWS infrastructure. RHEL is an enterprise Linux operating system that provides a consistent foundation across environments and the tools needed to quickly deliver services and workloads for any application.

“A good example of this [RHEL integration into AWS] is using tools like Red Hat Insights, which we announced about a year ago [and] which is now included in every Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription … in order to give customers advice on maybe potential problems that are coming up, helping customers solve them,” Hellekson concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent. (* Disclosure: Red Hat Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Red Hat nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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