Red Hat Developer Hub is a fully supported, enterprise-grade, open developer platform that you can use to build developer portals. This platform contains a supported and opinionated framework that helps reduce the friction and frustration of developers while boosting productivity. Red Hat Developer Hub simplifies decision-making by providing a developer experience that presents a selection of internally approved tools, programming languages, and developer resources within a self-managed portal. As a developer, you can use Red Hat Developer Hub to experience a streamlined development environment. Red Hat Developer Hub is driven by a centralized software catalog, providing efficiency to your microservices and infrastructure. It enables your product team to deliver quality code without any compromises.

Chapter 1. Benefits of Red Hat Developer Hub

Red Hat Developer Hub is designed to streamline developer workflow by providing a consistent self-service experience and can simplify application development through pre-built resources and enhanced collaboration tools. The following are the benefits of Red Hat Developer Hub:

  • Increased developer productivity. Increases productivity by eliminating common organizational challenges, enabling seamless collaboration, and providing clear guidelines for creating, developing, and deploying applications.

  • Unified self-service dashboard. Provides development teams with a unified dashboard covering various aspects such as Git, CI/CD, SAST/DAST, Supply Chain, OpenShift/Kubernetes cluster, JIRA, monitoring, API, documentation, and more, facilitated by over 150 plugins. All curated by a platform engineering team, aligning with the company’s best practices.

  • Best practices through software templates. Automates organizational best practices by encoding common tasks such as creating new applications, running Ansible jobs, and establishing CI/CD pipelines for production deployment in Git.

  • Scalable technical documentation. Code and documentation resides in the same repository, eliminating dependencies on proprietary document systems.

  • Efficient onboarding for new developers. New developers can adapt quickly and become productive within a short timeframe.

  • Robust enterprise Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). Empowers administrators to create roles, assign users or groups to roles, and implement robust security policies for enhanced access control.