Red Hat brings OpenShift Commons Community

To collaborate and deepen engagement with OpenShift, Red Hat has announced OpenShift Commons, Red Hat’s open-source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, and the open-source technologies that OpenShift is built upon.

Red Hat has launched OpenShift Commons with active participation from users, contributors, operators, customers, partners, and service providers from more than 30 global organizations, including Accenture, Amadeus, AppDirect, Dell, Docker, GetUp Cloud and Shippable. OpenShift by Red Hat incorporates several open-source technologies, including OpenShift Origin, Docker, Google Kubernetes, Project Atomic, and more.

Ashesh Badani, Vice-President & General Manager, OpenShift, Red Hat, said, “The OpenShift user and partner ecosystems are incredibly vibrant, as are the open-source technology communities that serve as the foundation for OpenShift and the rest of Red Hat’s product line. What we heard from customers, partners, and these communities is that they wanted a truly open community where all of these groups can intersect and help drive the future of PaaS innovation, and Red Hat is proud to facilitate development of a community to foster this broad industry collaboration.”

OpenShift Commons operates under a shared goal to move conversations beyond code contribution and explore best practices, use cases, and patterns that work in today’s continuous delivery and agile software environments. For companies not yet deploying OpenShift, OpenShift Commons can help connect them to large-scale delivery experts in the context of other common open-source projects, including Docker, Kubernetes and Project Atomic. There is no Contributor Licence Agreement, code contribution requirement or fees to join, just a commitment to collaborate on the new PaaS stack