Red Hat And Nokia Strategic Partnership FAQ
Red Hat News, Thursday, June 29,2023
On June 29, 2023, Red Hat announced an agreement with Nokia to tightly integrate Nokia's core network applications with Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat OpenShift, the leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes.
As part of this strategic partnership, Red Hat will support Nokia cloud infrastructure platforms, including Nokia Container Services and Nokia CloudBand Infrastructure Software, while developing a transition path with Nokia for customers who choose to move to Red Hat platforms.
Additionally, Red Hat will serve as Nokia's primary reference platform to develop, test and deliver its core network applications. Nokia will certify its core network portfolio of cloud-native network functions and virtualized network functions on Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenStack Platform and service providers will have a greater choice of deployment for bare-metal, virtualized and public cloud telco infrastructure offerings, including those from Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and others.