Red Hat is expanding its hybrid cloud portfolio on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as a first-party offering directly through the OCI Console. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, RHEL, Red Hat OpenShift, and OpenShift Virtualization subscriptions are also available through Oracle Marketplace.

RHEL 9 and 10 images are optimized for Intel- and AMD-based OCI virtual instances, with integration into OCI monitoring, APIs, CLI, and console. Customers may apply Oracle Universal Credits, with pay-as-you-go metering per Oracle CPU-hour and Oracle front-line support.

Oracle AI Database 26ai is certified on RHEL 8, 9 and 10. Oracle RAC on Database 19c and Oracle AI Database 26ai have received Red Hat validation for on-premises OpenShift Virtualization deployments. Oracle WebLogic Server is also validated for OpenShift Virtualization.

Analysis

Native RHEL availability reduces migration friction for enterprises already operating Red Hat Linux on-premises. OCI telemetry and procurement integration offer familiar operations and billing pathways. OpenShift Virtualization provides a Kubernetes-based route to manage virtual machines alongside containers, but the Oracle RAC validation described in the announcement applies to on-premises deployment, not a blanket OCI certification. The collaboration complements OCI’s AI infrastructure investments with enterprise operating-system and automation options; no new accelerator, networking performance benchmark, revenue target, or customer adoption figure was announced.

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