A new digital feature, based on generative artificial intelligence, had its general availability announced on Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed last week. The personal assistant solution promises to significantly transform how users interact and manage their hybrid cloud application platform deployments. The tool ensures users to be more precise in their technical tasks, even without extensive expertise in the field, while freeing up more experienced professionals to focus on innovation.
Delivering applications faster is essential for organizations across all sectors looking to enhance customer experience. However, many struggle to keep up with the increasing complexity of IT, compounded by a technical skills shortage. According to IDC, by 2026, over 90% of organizations worldwide will suffer from an IT talent crisis, resulting in about $5.5 trillion in losses due to product delays, lack of competitiveness, and missed business opportunities.
To this skills gap, Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed directly responds by offering specific generative AI capabilities for the OpenShift environment, integrated directly into the console. New platform users can more easily acquire the necessary skills to manage their applications, while experienced users can rapidly scale their knowledge to sustain production operations.
Enhanced productivity with personalized experience
Recognizing the complexity present in modern IT, Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed acts as an intelligent guide, offering proactive and personalized assistance, one step at a time, directly in the web console. The platform enables IT teams, regardless of experience level, to navigate complex application environments with more confidence and efficiency.
Using natural language, users can ask Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed about Red Hat OpenShift. This allows users to autonomously troubleshoot and investigate cluster resources. Additionally, professionals can share environment information in the chat, enabling the solution to respond to questions using real context.
Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed offers flexible integration with various AI model providers, including a range of prominent services available in models like OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and WatsonX. It is also possible to use private AI options hosted on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI and Red Hat OpenShift AI, providing greater control and customization in IT environments. This compatibility ensures organizations choose the most suitable AI models for their needs and security requirements.
Additionally, with the cluster interaction functionality, available as a technology preview, the solution can directly access the organization’s cluster context, providing faster and more accurate answers. Instead of generic guidance, Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed can answer detailed questions about specific environments.
To allow organizations to customize Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed according to their unique development process, the ‘Bring Your Own Knowledge’ (BYO Knowledge) feature is also available as a technology preview. It enables organizations to incorporate their own organizational knowledge and process documentation into the Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed system, reinforcing Red Hat’s commitment to adaptable solutions that deliver personalized responses based on each organization’s processes and practices, as well as how they use the platform.
Modern, simplified virtualization
Hybrid cloud environments increasingly combine modern containerized applications with traditional workloads in virtualized environments. Red Hat OpenShift provides a crucial unified platform for managing these diverse environments. Extending this approach, Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed delivers intelligent assistance specifically tailored for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
This capability not only simplifies the often complex process of migrating from legacy virtualization vendors but also facilitates modernization by providing accessible answers to specific virtualization queries. Now, organizations can integrate and manage virtual machines alongside containers with more confidence, with guidance from Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed ranging from VM migration to networking and storage, accelerating their journey towards a more agile and future-ready infrastructure.
Availability
Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed will be available in June 2025.
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- Modern infrastructure aligned with enterprise AI — Tuesday, May 20, 8am-10am EDT (YouTube)
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