Red Hat Developer Hub

Boost developer productivity to new heights with a Backstage-based internal developer portal built for enterprises.

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Accelerate innovation with a unified developer experience

Red Hat Developer Hub provides an enterprise-grade internal developer portal that improves developer collaboration and accelerates innovation with a centralized, self-service platform. By unifying tools, documentation, and best practices, it enables developers to focus on building and delivering value while ensuring security and compliance at scale.

  • Improves developer and application onboarding
  • Streamlines development workflows
  • Drives innovation at scale
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Turnkey internal developer portal

Red Hat Developer Hub eliminates the challenges of DIY or community Backstage-based portals by providing a fully supported enterprise-grade turnkey portal. It enables development teams to focus on innovation instead of maintaining an internal developer portal. 

  • 24/7 enterprise support
  • Eliminates DIY maintenance challenges
  • Built-in enterprise portal features
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Enterprise-grade security

Red Hat Developer Hub is built for enterprises where security is paramount. Developer Hub ensures enterprise RBAC and compliance policies can be quickly configured and enforced while preserving a simpler developer experience, allowing development teams to build, deploy, and scale with trust.

  • No-code enterprise role-based access (RBAC)
  • Audit logging for compliance audits
  • Self-service with guardrails and compliance enforced
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Simplified extensibility

Red Hat Developer Hub is fully customizable with simplified extensibility via seamless and code-free plug-in integration. Using dynamic plug-ins, teams can quickly extend functionality allowing developer velocity.   

  • Add plug-ins on-demand
  • 200+ plug-in ecosystem
  • Verified plug-in compatibility with each release
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Need to focus on the big tasks? Get an assistant.

From troubleshooting applications to designing new features, Red Hat Developer Lightspeed for Red Hat Developer Hub is an AI assistant designed to be a collaborative partner in your development work. 

  • Get answers in Red Hat Developer Hub using Developer Lightspeed, reducing time spent searching through documentation or other resources.
  • Brainstorm with Lightspeed to create test plans, design new features, or update technical documentation.
  • Use your own LLM! Bring your preferred model to control for performance, cost, and data privacy needs, and Lightspeed will work with it seamlessly. 

Developer Lightspeed for Red Hat Developer Hub is available with a Red Hat Developer Hub or Advanced Developer Suite subscription. Please note that this feature is currently in Developer preview. 

Developer Hub key features

Enterprise-grade support

Red Hat Developer Hub blends the latest innovations from the Backstage open source community with a robust set of enterprise capabilities, delivering a turnkey internal developer portal for platform teams. It ensures security and reliability through timely patches and expert support from Red Hat, helping maintain business continuity. With premium support, teams gain access to a comprehensive knowledge base and troubleshooting resources, enhancing developer productivity and satisfaction.

On-premises or cloud deployment

Red Hat Developer Hub offers deployment flexibility, allowing organizations to choose the environment that best fits their needs—whether on-premises (including air-gapped setups) or in the cloud on platforms like Amazon EKS, Microsoft AKS, or Google GKE. While applications can run anywhere, the Developer Hub itself is deployed in a single environment of your choice, providing the right balance of control, security, and scalability for platform teams.

Seamless integration with Red Hat products

Red Hat Developer Hub enables smooth interoperability across the Red Hat portfolio, including Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Ansible Automation Platform, OpenShift GitOps, OpenShift Pipelines, Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces, Red Hat AI, Quay, and cost management tools. These integrations help development teams streamline workflows, enhance automation, and accelerate innovation—without the burden of complex configuration.

Out-of-the-box enterprise features

Red Hat Developer Hub delivers a robust set of built-in enterprise capabilities designed for secure, scalable, and compliant development. It includes simplified RBAC management, audit logging, and multi-cloud scalability to support governance and security. Developer adoption analytics, advanced workflow orchestration, a verified plug-in catalog, dynamic plug-in management, and bulk import tools streamline onboarding and optimization. A curated library of pre-built templates jumpstarts development with best practices built in. Combined with flexible customization and seamless DevOps integration, Developer Hub ensures a consistent and efficient developer experience.