Red Hat Developer Hub

Give developers and AI agents the self-service workflows and enterprise context they need to build, deploy, and run applications within enterprise standards. Don’t let fragmented development processes and AI guesswork slow down application delivery.

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Backstage for enterprises

Red Hat Developer Hub is an agent-ready developer portal powered by CNCF Backstage. It offers the customization flexibility of open source while adding built-in security, eliminating the maintenance burden, and making extensibility easier. Platform engineers are freed to focus on improving the development lifecycle.

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Centris reduced time to market by 75% and cut support tickets by 20%

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Self-service golden paths

Golden paths eliminate the mental load that disparate tools, manual overhead, and tickets create for developers.

Software templates and orchestrator automate workflows from project setup to production while enforcing enterprise standards. For any application or environment type.

  • Software templates. Handle linear workflows for project creation, infrastructure provisioning, and deployment.
  • Orchestrator. Manage complex, multistep processes with parallel tasks, conditional logic, and approval gates.
  • Integrations. Both integrate with Jira, ServiceNow, CI/CD tools, and custom systems.

 

Use cases

 

Onboard new developers in days instead of months 

Provision accounts, development environments, and tool access. Watch the demo

Provision development environments in minutes 

Launch virtual machines (VMs) or cloud-based workspaces (Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces) with pre-configured access. 

Build AI applications faster 

Scaffold projects with model servers, databases, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment configs preconfigured. Watch the demo. Read the blog.

Context for AI agents

Without context, AI is guessing at how to build and it can't support the full app dev lifecycle. Developers also lose time looking for resources and information.

The software catalog is the governed context that tells AI what resources exist, what's allowed, and how it all connects. So agents know how to execute and can answer questions when working across the development lifecycle.

  • Everything in one place. The catalog contains software, documentation, best practices, golden paths, and live operational data.
  • Make AI assets discoverable. Add model context protocol (MCP) servers, skills, and rules to further standardize AI-driven development.
  • Continuously synched. Live sync to data sources ensures AI and devs are always working with the latest information.

Use cases

 

AI follows best practices when building

Uses approved technologies and existing services, respects compliance rules and domain boundaries, and provides traceable decisions by linking to catalog sources for verification. Read the blog.

Expedite app operations

AI can pull operational data, documentation, and ownership info to help with incident response, change impact analysis, and routine maintenance. 

Devs find answers and launch workflows fast

Portal assistant and AI coding tools quickly surface approved components, answers, and golden paths. Read the blog.

Drive adoption, maintain control

Developer Hub gives developers multiple access points and personalized experiences, easily integrating into their workflows.

Platform engineers get the tools to extend functionally faster, keep portal components updated, and meet compliance.

Adoption

 

One portal, multiple entry points. Connect AI CLIs and IDEs through MCP to give them enterprise context or use the web-based portal when you need a single, unified view for resources and application-level metrics.

Personalized web-based portal experience. Customize the web experience with persona-based homepages, localization, and structured new-developer onboarding.

Intelligent in-portal assistant. Reduce time spent searching through the portal. The assistant queries the portal to help with non-coding tasks like troubleshooting issues, finding services, and creating content faster.

See adoption trends. The Adoption Insights dashboard visualizes data on user behaviour including active users, top-executed templates, catalog entities, and most-used plugins to help you measure adoption, find gaps, and improve developer experience.

Simplified extensibility

 

Broad plugin options for integrations. Choose from Red Hat-supported plugins, build custom plugins with full programmatic control, or bulk migrate existing Backstage plugins.

Faster feature rollouts. Developer Hub's dynamic plugins load at runtime through configuration updates. So you can add functionality without rebuilding or extended downtime.

CLI for building plugins. Red Hat Developer Hub CLI streamlines the development, packaging, and distribution of dynamic plugins.

AI template skill. Guides AI-driven template creation and conversion with local validation and Red Hat Developer Hub best practices.

Governance and compliance

 

Automated template lifecycle management. Applications are linked to their source template. When the template gets an update, developers get an automatic notification to update their project.

Display component health. Scorecards display critical metrics like the number of open security vulnerabilities, outstanding high-priority bugs, or stale pull requests for a given component. By pulling from common sources such as Jira and GitHub, scorecards make it easier to spot and flag potential issues.

Audit trails. Built-in audit logging captures portal activities, template executions, role-based access control (RBAC) changes, and catalog updates—creating the compliance trails security teams require.

Built for enterprises

Red Hat Developer Hub delivers the enterprise-grade capabilities platform teams need to scale developer portals with confidence.

Security-hardened and supported

 

Red Hat Developer Hub blends the latest innovations from the Backstage open source community with enterprise capabilities.

Red Hat enhances security and reliability by continuously securing the code and curating supported plugins each release. Everything is delivered as a prebuilt, certified container for fast, reliable installation and upgrades—helping maintain business continuity.

Developer Hub offers expert support with SLAs, long-term maintenance, comprehensive documentation, and access to Red Hat's knowledge base.

On-premise or cloud deployment

 

Platform teams can balance control, security, and scalability with deployment flexibility.

They can deploy on managed Red Hat OpenShift (Red Hat OpenShift on AWS, Azure Red Hat OpenShift), managed Kubernetes (Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, Google GKE), or on-premise Red Hat OpenShift (including air-gapped environments).

The portal gets deployed in a single environment, while applications run anywhere.

Seamless integration with Red Hat products

 

Red Hat Developer Hub enables smooth interoperability across the Red Hat portfolio, including Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat OpenShift GitOps, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines, Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces, Red Hat AI, Quay, and cost management tools.

These integrations help teams streamline workflows, enhance automation, and accelerate innovation—without the burden of complex configuration.