Red Hat Developer Hub is a fully supported, open developer platform that reduces friction and frustration of developers while boosting productivity.

This platform is driven by a centralized software catalog, providing efficiency to your microservices and infrastructure.

Use Red Hat Developer Hub to simplify decision-making through a selection of internally approved tools, programming languages, and developer resources within a self-managed portal.

1. Benefits of Red Hat Developer Hub

Increased developer productivity

Eliminates 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. Your platform engineering team can curate aspects such as:

  • Git

  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

  • Static Application Security Testing (SAST)/Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

  • Supply Chain

  • OpenShift/Kubernetes cluster

  • JIRA

  • Monitoring

  • API

  • Documentation

Best practices through software templates

Automates organizational best practices by encoding common tasks such as:

  • Creating new applications

  • Running Ansible jobs

  • Establishing CI/CD pipelines for production deployment in Git

Scalable technical documentation

Code and documentation is 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 time frame.

Robust enterprise Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Empowers administrators to:

  • Create roles

  • Assign users or groups to roles

  • Implement robust security policies for enhanced access control

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2. Integrations in Red Hat Developer Hub

Red Hat Developer Hub integrates seamlessly with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and other tools, enabling comprehensive development and deployment workflows across enterprise.

2.1. Integration with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Red Hat Developer Hub is fully integrated with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, offering:

  • Operators to manage application lifecycle.

  • Access to advanced OpenShift capabilities such as service mesh, serverless functions, GitOps, and distributed tracing.

  • Pipelines and GitOps plugins for streamlined cloud-native workflows.

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While Red Hat Developer Hub focuses on the inner loop (code, build, and test), {rhtap-very-short} manages the outer loop, automating:

  • Code scanning

  • Image building

  • Vulnerability detection

  • Deployment

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2.3. Extending Backstage with Red Hat Developer Hub

Red Hat Developer Hub which is a fully supported, enterprise-grade productized version of upstream Backstage extends the upstream project by adding:

  • Enhanced search capabilities that aggregate data from CI/CD pipelines, cloud providers, source control, and more.

  • A centralized software catalog for locating applications, APIs, and resources.

  • Automation through open-source plugins that expand Backstage’s core functionality.

  • Simplified technical documentation using Markdown and GitHub, with integrated search for easy navigation.

3. Supported platforms

You can find the supported platforms and life cycle dates for both current and past versions of Red Hat Developer Hub on the Life Cycle page.

4. Sizing requirements for Red Hat Developer Hub

Scaling the Red Hat Developer Hub requires significant resource allocation. The following table lists the sizing requirements for installing and running Red Hat Developer Hub, including Developer Hub application, database components, and Operator.

Table 1. Recommended sizing for running Red Hat Developer Hub
Components Red Hat Developer Hub application Red Hat Developer Hub database Red Hat Developer Hub Operator

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

4 vCPU

2 vCPU

1 vCPU

Memory

16 GB

8 GB

1500 Mi

Storage size

2 GB

20 GB

50 Mi

Replicas

2 or more

3 or more

1 or more

5. Red Hat Developer Hub support

If you experience difficulty with a procedure described in this documentation, visit the Red Hat Customer Portal. You can use the Red Hat Customer Portal for the following purposes:

  • To search or browse through the Red Hat Knowledgebase of technical support articles about Red Hat products.

  • To create a support case for Red Hat Global Support Services (GSS). For support case creation, select Red Hat Developer Hub as the product and select the appropriate product version.

  • For detailed information about supported platforms and life cycle details, see Red Hat Developer Hub Life Cycle.

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