Red Hat, a global open-source solutions company, said on Nov. 10 it will officially launch Red Hat OpenShift 5, a Kubernetes-based hybrid cloud application platform.

The company said OpenShift 5 adds embedded operations intelligence and zero trust security. It is designed to simplify complex operations across data centres, cloud and environments separated from external networks.

It can be migrated from Red Hat OpenShift 4 through a simple in-place update. IT teams can deploy AI workloads, virtual machines and container workloads on a single platform.

Red Hat OpenShift 5 provides an application foundation designed to connect and run enterprise AI. Customers can use it to monitor, manage and scale their environments.

It also includes support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, AI interfaces and automated AI-based reasoning tools. Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed has evolved from a conversational assistant into an agent, strengthening interactions with the platform.

Red Hat OpenShift 5 also supports enhanced multitenancy for sovereign deployments and post-quantum cryptography.

Ashesh Badani (아셰시 바다니), Red Hat senior vice president and chief product officer, said Red Hat OpenShift 5 evolves the application platform to fit corporate IT teams' real operating environments. He said it has natural-language interaction built in as a baseline for everyday operational tasks and provides strict multitenancy and sovereign protection features essential for modern enterprises. He said customers can confidently build, run and scale virtual machines, containers and agentic AI across hybrid clouds.