Red Hat OpenShift Development Consulting

Cloud-Native Application Development

We help organisations build modern, scalable applications from the ground up on OpenShift. Our architects design cloud-native systems using microservices, API-led architectures, event-driven patterns and containerised workloads — enabling faster delivery of new services and the flexibility to scale them independently.

Cloud-native development on OpenShift means your applications are designed to take full advantage of the platform’s capabilities: automated scaling, self-healing deployments, rolling updates with zero downtime, and built-in observability. Whether you’re building a new customer-facing platform or a complex backend integration layer, we bring the technical depth to make it work reliably in production from day one.

Application Modernisation and VMware Migration

Many enterprises still operate monolithic systems — or large fleets of virtual machines — that constrain what they can deliver and how fast they can move. For organisations running VMware environments, Red Hat OpenShift virtualisation offers a compelling migration path: you can bring existing VM workloads onto the same platform as your containerised applications, reducing infrastructure complexity while preserving operational continuity.

Our OpenShift specialists help organisations containerise legacy applications, migrate workloads from VMware and other virtualisation platforms to Kubernetes, and — where the business case supports it — refactor monoliths into microservices. We approach modernisation pragmatically: not everything needs to be rewritten, and we’ll help you identify where containerisation delivers real value and where a lift-and-shift approach makes more sense.

We understand that modernisation is never just a technical exercise. We work closely with your teams to maintain reliability throughout the journey, minimising disruption while unlocking the agility that modern architectures deliver. For organisations modernising IBM WebSphere or other middleware platforms, OpenShift provides a natural landing zone.

DevOps and Platform Engineering

OpenShift is built for modern DevOps workflows. We design and implement the pipelines, automation and developer tooling that allow your teams to ship faster and with greater confidence. Our approach treats the platform itself as a product — something your development teams depend on and that needs to be designed with their workflows in mind.

Our DevOps services include:

• CI/CD pipeline design and implementation using OpenShift Pipelines and other best-of-breed tooling
• GitOps automation using ArgoCD — declarative, auditable application delivery across all environments
• Infrastructure-as-Code deployment with Terraform, Vault and Helm
• Developer self-service platform environments — giving teams autonomy without sacrificing governance
• DevSecOps integration — security embedded into the pipeline, not bolted on afterwards
• Observability stack implementation — metrics, logs and traces integrated from the start

OpenShift Architecture and Platform Design

A well-designed OpenShift platform is the foundation everything else depends on. Poor architectural decisions made early — in network design, storage configuration, security policy or cluster sizing — create problems that are expensive to fix later. Our certified architects design production-ready environments that are secure, resilient and optimised for your specific workloads from the outset.

Architecture services include:

• Cluster architecture and sizing based on your specific workload profile and growth projections
• Network design, ingress configuration and service mesh implementation
• Container security hardening, policy controls and compliance configuration
• Observability, monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana and the OpenShift monitoring stack
• High availability and disaster recovery design
• Storage architecture — persistent volume design, storage class selection and backup strategy

OpenShift Across Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments

One of OpenShift’s most significant strengths is its ability to run consistently across environments — public cloud, private cloud and on-premise data centres — without requiring separate tooling or operational processes for each. This makes it the natural choice for organisations adopting hybrid cloud strategies, or those that need to keep certain workloads on-premise for regulatory or data sovereignty reasons while still benefiting from cloud-native architecture.

We design OpenShift platforms for all deployment models, including AWS ROSA, Azure Red Hat OpenShift, OpenShift on IBM Cloud, and self-managed OpenShift on-premise. See our dedicated pages on Kubernetes on Cloud and Kubernetes On-Premises to understand how each model works in practice.