A new digital feature, based on generative artificial intelligence, had its general availability announced for Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed last week. The personal assistant solution promises to significantly transform how users interact with and manage their hybrid cloud application platform deployments. The tool ensures users are more accurate in their technical tasks, even without extensive expertise in the area, while freeing up more experienced professionals to focus on innovation.
Delivering applications faster is essential for organizations across all sectors looking to improve customer experience. However, many struggle to keep up with the growing complexity of IT, exacerbated by a technical skills gap. According to IDC, by 2026, over 90% of organizations worldwide will suffer from the IT talent crisis, resulting in losses of approximately $5.5 trillion due to product delays, lack of competitiveness, and missed business opportunities.
Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed directly addresses this skills gap by offering generative AI capabilities specific to 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 scale their knowledge more quickly to support production operations.
Enhanced productivity with personalized experience
Recognizing the complexity of modern IT, Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed acts as an intelligent guide, offering proactive and personalized assistance, step by step, directly in the web console. The platform enables IT teams, regardless of experience level, to navigate complex application environments with greater confidence and efficiency.
Using natural language, users can ask Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed questions about Red Hat OpenShift. This empowers users to independently resolve issues and investigate cluster resources. Additionally, professionals can share environment information in the chat, allowing 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 such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and WatsonX. It’s also possible to use private AI options hosted on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI and Red Hat OpenShift AI, offering greater control and customization in IT environments. This compatibility ensures organizations can choose the AI models best suited to 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 responses. Instead of generic guidance, Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed can answer detailed questions about specific environments.
To enable 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 allows 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 tailored to each organization’s processes, practices, and platform usage.
Modern virtualization, simplified
Hybrid cloud environments increasingly combine modern containerized applications with traditional workloads in virtual environments. Red Hat OpenShift provides a crucial unified platform to manage these diverse environments. Expanding 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 virtualization-specific questions. Now, organizations can integrate and manage virtual machines alongside containers with greater confidence, guided by Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed from VM migration to networking and storage, accelerating their journey toward a more agile and future-ready infrastructure.
Availability
Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed will be available in June 2025.
Red Hat Summit
Attend the Red Hat Summit keynotes to hear the latest updates from Red Hat executives, customers, and partners:
- Modern infrastructure aligned with enterprise AI—Tuesday, May 20, 8 AM – 10 AM EDT (YouTube)
- Hybrid cloud evolves to drive enterprise innovation—Wednesday, May 21, 8 AM – 9:30 AM EDT (YouTube)
