Red Hat Application Foundations

Red Hat® Application Foundations includes frameworks and capabilities you need for designing, building, deploying, connecting, safeguarding, and scaling cloud-native applications. When combined with Red Hat OpenShift®, Application Foundations creates a platform for development and operations teams to build and modernize applications efficiently and safely while balancing developer choice and flexibility with operational control and security.

Application Foundations includes capabilities to help your teams adopt modern and cloud-native architectures, including foundational patterns like microservices, application programming interface (API)-first, and data streaming. And when combined with other technologies allows them to adopt more complex patterns such as event driven architecture and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) that unlock new, innovative capabilities for their organizations.

Application Foundations helps you create a platform for building and deploying modern cloud-native applications and support your developers by offering higher productivity and innovation. These tools allow operations to be more efficient by making code in production more reliable, performant, and scalable, and fully equip business leaders by supporting agile development, integration, and automation.

As part of its comprehensive portfolio, Application Foundations includes:

• Application and API connectivity
• Data transformation
• Service composition and orchestration
• Real-time messaging and data streaming
• Java (TM) application frameworks
• In-memory distributed datastore
• Single sign-on
• Migration toolkit for applications
• Java application servers.
• Enterprise integration
• Change data capture
• Data transformation and integration

Red Hat Application Foundations capabilities have demonstrated success:¹

• According to IDC, customers have linked the use of Red Hat application frameworks that are included with Red Hat Application Foundations to more than doubling the number of new applications they can deliver1 (126% more on average) as well as more frequently providing the business with new features (54% more on average). Visit the product page for more information about Application Foundations.
• IDC research has shown customers using Red Hat integration capabilities that are included with Red Hat Application Foundations, were able to increase the number of features developed by 63%, the number of API endpoints by 40%, and the number of applications by 38%. While accomplishing this output, they also improved their IT staff efficiency.

Accelerate innovation

With Application Foundations, you can combine continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) efficiencies with innovation to speed the delivery of new applications, improve customer experiences, internal processes, and command a competitive advantage with the experiences and capabilities you will be able to deliver to your customers. Application Foundations includes tools that provide modern and cloud-first approaches to architecture, giving development teams the ability to focus on innovation.

Modernize cloud management

Resolve the complexities associated with maintaining both existing and new applications using open cloud-native approaches. Application development and operations (DevOps) teams have a streamlined experience that combines container orchestration, developer efficiency and flexibility, and pipeline efficiency.

Adapt to changing requirements

Help application teams act as valued business partners who can drive organizational growth and success through technology and innovation. When the demands or requirements for applications shift, Application Foundations can provide the flexibility to help developers adapt quickly and accelerate time to market. With the comprehensive set of tools in Application Foundations, you can future-proof your application development and at the same time reduce costs over time when integrating the next big disruptive technology comes along.

Hybrid cloud and multicloud 

Realize a unified application environment designed to support and streamline the complex reality of hybrid cloud operations and modernization to the cloud. Through a consistent experience across cloud environments, operations and development teams can efficiently and predictably deliver new capabilities to stakeholders to meet organizational needs.

Create a platform for applications

When combined with Red Hat OpenShift, Application Foundations organizations can create a platform for DevOps teams to build and modernize applications efficiently and safely while balancing developer choice and flexibility with operational control and security.