New updates to Red Hat Developer Hub, an internal portal for developers focused on the enterprise market, based on the Backstage project, have just been released by Red Hat. The features, delivered with the general availability of Red Hat Developer Hub 1.5, are designed to accelerate technology adoption within organizations and provide a more personalized experience to further enhance developer productivity and efficiency.
Currently, organizations are increasingly prioritizing the delivery of better customer experiences through intelligent applications, including AI-enabled and edge applications—however, these applications can be complex and time-consuming to develop. As companies prepare their infrastructure and tools for an AI-focused future, internal developer portals help overcome the complexity associated with intelligent applications and maximize the necessary developer skills to increase productivity. The recent improvements to Red Hat Developer Hub aim to more than fulfill this promise, optimizing the developer experience and helping accelerate the time-to-market.
For Balaji Sivasubramanian, Senior Director of Developer Tools at Red Hat, in addition to breaking down technical barriers, the updates promise a customized experience for organizations. “The latest features of Red Hat Developer Hub are designed not only to help organizations increase technology adoption and efficiency but also to ensure a more personalized portal, providing developers with direct access to the tools, templates, and components they need to drive innovation,” he said.
Detailed data and analytics
Widespread adoption of an internal developer portal is one of the fastest ways to streamline application development and improve developer productivity in an organization. On the other hand, the information within these environments is not always easily accessible to truly determine who is accessing and how a portal is being used.
With Adoption Insights, available as a developer preview, platform engineers will have access to a detailed analytical dashboard on how development teams are using Red Hat Developer Hub within their organizations. These insights allow teams not only to focus on areas of success but also to better understand where improvements can be made—helping drive adoption and strengthen engagement.
The dashboard provides a detailed view of templates and plugins that are being regularly used, metrics on visits, usage, and more, facilitating data-driven decision-making, improving the user experience, and ultimately increasing overall developer productivity.
Simplified customization through dynamic plugins
No organization approaches application development in the same way, and as such, they need access to tailored tools and customized components to better meet their needs. With the Red Hat Developer Hub Extensions Catalog, available as a developer preview, users have access to a catalog of community and Red Hat-verified plugins.
The extensions catalog provides information on over 60 dynamic plugins, all available through a simplified interface for a better user experience. With access to the plugins, organizations have greater control and flexibility to customize the Red Hat Developer Hub portal according to their specific needs. Additionally, with the dynamic plugin framework in Red Hat Developer Hub, teams can manage any plugin, including custom ones, from the runtime, without the need to redesign the portal. This makes it significantly faster and easier to integrate new tools and developer courses.
Agile service changes through local development tools
Red Hat Developer Hub also offers a local version of RHDH Local. With the developer preview already available, the solution allows platform engineers to run a lightweight, standalone version of Red Hat Developer Hub on their physical machines, enabling users to make changes to their portal more quickly and easily, with a more agile lifecycle in mind.
With RHDH Local, users can work on templates, test plugins, validate software catalogs, and more, without needing to install Red Hat Developer Hub on a Kubernetes cluster. Since it runs in a container environment, users can start RHDH Local in seconds and shut it down just as quickly. By allowing users to iterate more quickly and perform troubleshoot locally before deploying changes to a production system, RHDH Local helps increase daily developer efficiency and simplify the user experience.
Availability
Red Hat Developer Hub 1.5 is now available.
