Red Hat Developer Hub

An enterprise-grade, open developer platform for building developer portals, containing a supported and opinionated framework. Red Hat Developer Hub helps reduce friction and frustration for engineering teams while boosting their productivity and increasing their organization's competitive advantages.

Red Hat Developer Hub

Red Hat Plug-ins for Backstage

Empowering engineering to deliver business value faster

We brought our own expertise and customer experiences together with a community of partners and open source projects to improve developer experience on Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes. Both are critical to our customers, and we want to provide developer tools that make it easier and more productive for your teams to build services and applications along with lowering the cognitive burden of navigating the complexity of application development.

Red Hat Developer Hub is an enterprise-grade, open developer platform for building developer portals, containing a supported and opinionated framework. It helps reduce friction and frustration for engineering teams while boosting their productivity and increasing their organization's competitive advantages. Learn more

Along with Red Hat Developer Hub, we are releasing Red Hat Plug-ins for Backstage, a bundle of 6 plug-ins that extend the functionality of the upstream project. Red Hat Plug-ins for Backstage can work in tandem with Red Hat Developer Hub and any other pre-existing customer installations of Backstage. Learn more

Sign up for Red Hat Developer Hub Preview

Red Hat Developer Hub is currently available to a limited set of customers as a preview. We would like to work closely with you to get feedback . To get started, send an email to

rhdh-interest@redhat.com to get access to the Red Hat Developer Hub platform today.

Reduce friction and frustration for engineering teams while boosting their productivity

Every engineering team and every IT project evolves a tailored development environment. This collection of tools, services, and configuration is often maintained by convention and transmitted by from one team member to another.

Developer portals help teams curate, manage, and replicate these environments. Backstage is an open source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project for building developer platforms and encapsulating tools, services, documentation, and best practices in “golden paths” to ease onboarding and daily development work.

Using Red Hat Developer Hub, developers can access a unified and open platform that streamlines the development process and provides a variety of tools and resources to help them build high-quality software efficiently.

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Developer Hub from the perspective of a developer

There are a lot of pains and a lot of things that developers get frustrated with all the time. Especially when it comes to starting new projects or onboarding with an existing one. Assume, you've been tasked to start a new project. Create a new microservice to do something. Maybe handle a new API, maybe work with a new database, whatever it may be. One of the biggest frustrations that happens right away is just getting it up and running. You gotta go find permissions over on this side. File a ticket here. What technologies do we have to use? Where to request access to the test cluster? See at a glance where and how the Red Hat Developer Hub can help you be a more productive developer instantly.

The advantages at a glance

Single pane of glass to increase engineering productivity

We’ve taken the open innovation of Backstage further, with a hardened and integrated internal developer platform offering: Red Hat Developer Hub.

Self-service with guardrails for cloud-native development

IT organizations are the unsung heroes in the background, keeping developer workflows rolling smoothly with the right tools, validated environments, and on-demand services. Red Hat Developer Hub helps developers focus on crafting beautiful code, not the plumbing underneath it.

Best practices with GitOps & automation

Red Hat Developer Hub adds support for key Red Hat-developed plug-ins, including GitOps with Argo CD and Pipelines with Tekton, to drive a more consistent automation experience based on GitOps and Pipelines.

Real-time view of application & infrastructure health & security

Additional plug-ins like Application Topology for Kubernetes and Multicluster View with Open Cluster Manager (OCM) drive a consistent user experience into the overall application and infrastructure health as well as security.

Simplified onboarding with customizable & repeatable golden paths

Red Hat Developer Hub includes validated templates that provide opinionated, pre-architected approaches to building and deploying software from creation to production, supporting application development teams on their journey to cloud-native deployment.

Access to system architecture & application documentation

Engineers write documentation in Markdown files that live together with their code, giving teams access to system architecture and application documentation when and where they need it.

Open source innovation with stability, support & reliability

Red Hat Developer Hub gives IT organizations a developer platform built on open source innovation, with the stability, support, and reliability that they’ve come to expect from Red Hat’s hybrid cloud technologies.