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.
Red Hat Developer Hub vs. Backstage
Feature description | CNCF Backstage | Red Hat Developer Hub |
Software Catalog | ✔︎ | ✔︎ |
Software Templates for Self-Service | ✔︎ | ✔︎ |
Technical Docs | ✔︎ | ✔︎ |
Global search and query | ✔︎ | ✔︎ |
Helm-based installation | ✔︎ | ✔︎ |
Turnkey Portal Solution | ||
24 x 7 Enterprise Support | ✘ | ✔︎ |
No-code, out-of-the-box portal | ✘ | ✔︎ |
Enterprise-friendly, Kubernetes Operator-based installation | ✘ | ✔︎ |
Advanced Workflow Automation (Orchestrator) | ✘ | ✔︎ |
Validated and supported on all major Kubernetes providers GKE, AKS, EKS, and Red Hat OpenShift | ✘ | ✔︎ |
Local deployments option for faster portal development (RHDH Local) | ✘ | ✔︎ |
Portal Adoption insights analyse how your IDP adoption is progressing | ✘ | ✔︎ |
Enterprise Grade Security | Community Support Only | World Class 24 x 7 |
Hardened, production-ready, RHEL-based UBI container image | ✘ | ✔︎ |
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) | ✘ | ✔︎ |
Enterprise authentication with Keycloak federated, PingFederate | ✘ | ✔︎ |
Audit Logging for template creation, execution, catalog creation/modification | ✘ | ✔︎ |
Fast-track Security fixes rapid CVEs resolution within X days | ✘ | ✔︎ |
Simplified extensibility | ||
Simplified Plugin Management (Dynamic Plug-Ins). | ✘ | ✔︎ |
Verified plugin compatibility with each release | ✘ Need to self-verify | ✔︎ No need to self-verify |
Extensions Catalog In-product plugin catalog | ✘ | ✔︎ |
Support for Red Hat's 20+ PlugIns Tekton, ArgoCD, Orchestrator, Cost Management, Kiali, 3scale, ACS, Ansible and many more | ✘ | ✔︎ |
Curated Templates library for rapid development of templates | ✘ | ✔︎ |
Additional supported integration with Red Hat Developer Hub | ||
Capabilities | Red Hat products | |
Application platform with Gitops, Pipelines, Virtualization, | Red Hat OpenShift Application Platform | |
Ansible Automation | Red Hat Ansible Application Platform | |
Secure Software Supply Chain | Red Hat Artifact Signer and Red Hat Profile Analyzer | |
Advanced Kubernetes Cluster Security | Red Hat Advanced Security Cluster | |
Cost Management | Red Hat Cost Management | |
One-Click Dev Environment (Cloud IDE) | Red Hat OpenShift DevSpaces | |
