Red Hat has made OpenShift 5 generally available, with agentic troubleshooting, post-quantum cryptography and a five-year predictable lifecycle for its Kubernetes-based hybrid cloud platform.

Customers with existing subscriptions can update in place from OpenShift 4 and run AI workloads, virtual machines and containers side by side.

OpenShift Lightspeed has moved from a conversational assistant to an agent. It handles troubleshooting and update risk assessments. It also runs pre-flight readiness checks for optional operators in the management console.

On security, the release comes with hardened multi-tenancy for sovereign deployments and post-quantum cryptography for control plane communications.

Additionally, it supports disconnected deployments and extended certificate management for air-gapped, edge and regulated environments.

OpenShift 5 forms the foundation for Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA. It features automated GPU compute slicing to share hardware between AI inference and traditional enterprise workloads.

“Red Hat OpenShift 5 evolves the application platform to meet enterprise IT teams where they are,” said Ashesh Badani (top), Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer of Red Hat.

The launch follows a busy quarter for the company in the region. Red Hat opened its Asia-Pacific AI Centre of Excellence in Singapore on October 22 with backing from the Singapore Economic Development Board. On September 1, it set out a hybrid AI strategy for Australian and New Zealand enterprises.