Red Hat Positioned as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms
For the third consecutive year, Red Hat is named a Leader for its hybrid cloud application platform, Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms for Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s comprehensive hybrid application platform powered by Kubernetes. This recognition marks the third consecutive year that Red Hat has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant, based on the company’s Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.
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As organizations prioritize modernizing complex legacy environments while adopting artificial intelligence (AI), Red Hat believes that having an agile, secure and unified application foundation becomes critical. Gartner evaluates vendors in the report based on their offering strategy, innovation, overall viability, business model, and more. This research helps software engineering leaders evaluate cloud-native application platform vendors and find the best fit for their organization. In our opinion, Red Hat OpenShift delivers a consistent, enterprise-grade hybrid cloud experience built on Kubernetes flexibility, allowing organizations to manage containers, virtual machines (VMs) and AI workloads with the same operational and security rigor across any infrastructure footprint. The platform is natively integrated and available as a managed service including Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO), Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud Platform and Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, while also supporting flexible, self-managed deployments on-premises or in private clouds.
