Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift Alternatives (September 2025)

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes service with hardened security and fast delivery. Deploy and manage containerized applications with AKS.

An enterprise application platform powered by Kubernetes that provides the basic functionality of Red Hat OpenShift to run containers in hybrid cloud environments.

Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka makes it easier to create, discover and connect to real-time data streams regardless of where they exist.

A single console, with built-in security policies, for controlling Kubernetes clusters and applications.

Store images for all types of container deployments and OCI artifacts, using Azure Container Registry.

A collaborative Kubernetes-native development solution that delivers OpenShift workspaces and in-browser IDE for rapid cloud application development.

Bring your own containers and deploy to App Service as a web app running on Linux in seconds using Web App for Containers feature of Azure App Service.

Migrate and build apps. Azure App Service is a fully managed platform for creating web applications. The app service offers a range of app development plans and services.

Learn how Azure App Service helps you develop and host web applications.

Red Hat Runtimes includes a collection of cloud-native runtimes for developing Java or JavaScript applications on OpenShift.

Invent with purpose, realize cost savings, and make your organization more efficient with Microsoft Azure’s open and flexible cloud computing platform.

IBM Container Registry enables you to store and distribute Docker images in a managed, private registry.

Learn about Azure Cloud Services, which helps you deploy and scale powerful cloud applications and APIs. Supports Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, .NET, and more.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a stable, proven foundation that’s versatile enough for rolling out new applications, virtualizing environments, and creating a more secure hybrid cloud.

Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers.

Run application containers in the cloud with a single command. Get started in seconds and lower your infrastructure costs with per-second billing.

Build, manage, and deliver solutions through the Azure Marketplace or Service Catalog with Azure Managed Applications.

Learn how Azure Stack brings the agility of cloud computing to your on-premises environment.

Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) provides enterprise-level high-performance and flexible management of Kubernetes containerized applications throughout the application lifecycle.

Protect your data with Azure Sphere, a turnkey IoT device security and IoT platform solution for intelligent edge devices and microcontrollers.

An open source Kubernetes Platform to manage enterprise-grade Kubernetes across hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and edge. Get started for free!

How do you want to manage your systems? That probably depends a lot on the type of environment you have—whether your systems are primarily on-prem, or if they reside in the cloud. Or a mixture of both. Either way, Red Hat is looking to meet you where you're at and provide management tools to suit your needs with Red Hat Smart Management.

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service enables the orchestration of intelligent scheduling, self-healing and horizontal scaling.

Learn about Azure Automation, a cloud automation service for process automating those long-running, error-prone, frequently repeated tasks with Windows PowerShell.

Try Azure File Storage for managed file shares that use standard SMB 3.0 protocol. Share data with on-premises and cloud servers, integrate with apps, and more.

Get 10 free parallel jobs for cloud-based CI/CD pipelines for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Automate builds and easily deploy to any cloud with Azure Pipelines.

Azure API Management offers a scalable, multi-cloud API management platform for securing, publishing, and analyzing APIs.

Azure API Apps give you the tools to develop, host, secure, and share REST APIs in your organization or with the world.

Manage billions of IoT devices with Azure IoT Hub, a cloud platform that lets you easily connect, monitor, provision, and configure IoT devices.

Build apps faster and scale automatically on Azure SQL Database, the intelligent, fully managed relational cloud database.

Azure OpenAI Service offers industry-leading coding and language AI models that you can fine-tune to your specific needs for a variety of use cases.

Use Azure Arc solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud management to run Azure services anywhere. Accelerate innovation with Azure Arc–enabled data services.

Canonical Kubernetes enterprise solutions build up from Ubuntu OS to hybrid multi-cloud container orchestration clouds, edge and IoT, managed Kubernetes and enterprise support packages.

Connect cloud intelligence to your edge devices with Azure IoT Edge, a comprehensive service that deploys artificial intelligence and custom logic to IoT devices.

An open source Java EE 8-compliant application server that lets you build Java applications once and deploy them everywhere.

At Build, we announced the latest update of Azure IoT Remote Monitoring, a solution accelerator that is fully operational right out of the box.

IBM Storage Suite for IBM Cloud Paks delivers secure persistent storage resources for your Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift container environments.

Rancher, the open-source multi-cluster orchestration platform, lets operations teams deploy, manage and secure enterprise Kubernetes. Request a demo!

Read how Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes helps you secure your systems

Simplify your Kubernetes deployment with Kublr. Our platform offers fast and efficient setup and orchestration for small and large scale enterprises.

Container Engine by Oracle provides a developer friendly, container-native, and enterprise-ready managed Kubernetes service for running highly available clusters.

Build, debug, deploy, and manage cloud applications—using any platform or language—with Azure development tools, including Visual Studio.

Try Azure Database for PostgreSQL to build reliable and intelligent applications for your organization. Explore open-source PostgreSQL database.

Discover Azure Data Factory, the easiest cloud-based hybrid data integration service and solution at an enterprise scale. Build data factories without the need to code.

Get HDInsight, an open-source analytics service that runs Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and more. Integrate HDInsight with big data processing by Azure for even more insights.

Learn about Azure Event Hubs, a managed service that can ingest and process massive data streams from websites, apps, or devices.

Learn about Azure Batch, a Microsoft cloud computing service for running large-scale parallel and batch compute jobs.

Managed Enterprise Container Management for Organizations. We have private and managed container orchestration for Kubernetes, Docker, and more!

A browser-based shell experience in the cloud that’s maintained by Microsoft to manage Azure resources with popular command-line tools and programming languages

Share code, track work, and ship software using integrated developer tools, hosted on-premises with Azure DevOps Server

Reach wider audiences on the devices they use with cloud video streaming, encoding, and indexing services from Azure Media Services.

Make autoscaling your VMs easier with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Run thousands of virtual machines in minutes based on customizable metrics.

Secure your network and devices, manage device and application updates, and receive long-term OS support with Windows 10 IoT Core Services.

The platform for implementing mission-critical automation, no matter where you are in your automation journey.

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL and relational database for modern app development. Start building applications with a free trial.

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is hosting for VMware workloads. Configurations range from self-managed to fully IBM-managed on single- or multi-tenant IBM Cloud servers.

With Azure SignalR Service, adding real-time communications to your web application is as simple as provisioning a service.

Azure Lab Services provides secure, sharable virtual labs in the cloud with on-demand or scheduled access to preconfigured virtual machines.

Integrate F5 technology with containerized environments to enable dynamic, advanced application services.

Gain end-to-end observability into your applications, infrastructure, and network both on cloud and hybrid environments with Azure Monitor.

Protect against ransomware with a centralized cloud backup service and solution.

Build, manage, and monitor all your apps in Microsoft Azure Portal. A single, unified hub built for you, your team, and your projects.

Oracle Container Registry is a highly available container registry service for storing and sharing container images and artifacts across multiple deployments.

Create event-driven, scalable serverless applications in .NET, Node.js, Python, Java, or PowerShell with the Azure Functions app— a serverless computing service.

Learn about high-performance block storage for Azure Virtual Machines. Explore cost-effective options with cloud Ultra, SSD, and HDD disks.

Build machine learning models in a simplified way with machine learning platforms from Azure. Machine learning as a service increases accessibility and efficiency.

Our platform as a service (PaaS) gives development teams control and peace of mind while accelerating the time to build and deploy applications.

Easily manage multiple Kubernetes clusters with the automation power of the Kubermatic platform. Scale your business with reliability.

MicroK8s is the simplest production-grade conformant K8s. Lightweight and focused. Single command install on Linux, Windows and macOS. Made for devOps, great for edge, appliances and IoT. Full high availability Kubernetes with autonomous clusters and distributed storage.

Learn about Azure Content Delivery Network, a secure and reliable global content delivery and acceleration solution.

A flexible messaging platform that enables real-time integration and connects the Internet of Things (IoT).

Built on the proven analytical engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, Azure Analysis Services delivers enterprise-grade data modeling in the cloud.

Download and install the Azure SDKs and Azure PowerShell and command-line tools for management and deployment.

VMware Tanzu is a cloud native application platform that enables vital DevSecOps outcomes in a multi-cloud world.

Use the Azure Migrate hub of cloud migration tools and services to assess your current workloads and plan and implement your migration to Azure.

Learn about Azure Virtual Network. Create your own private network in the cloud. View features and build a hybrid IT infrastructure you can control.

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

D2iQ makes it easier to build and run Kubernetes at scale, reducing time to market from months to days.

Build real-world Web3 applications using Azure, Web3 developer tools, and security services.

Azure Archive Storage provides a low cost means of delivering durable, highly available, secure cloud storage and data management for rarely accessed data.

Manage, deploy, and patch your domain controllers in the cloud with Microsoft Entra Domain Services (formerly Azure Active Directory Domain Services).

IBM Maximo Application Suite is a set of applications for asset monitoring, management, predictive maintenance and reliability planning. It’s available as managed SaaS or deployable in any Red Hat OpenShift environment.

Container storage for OpenShift

Taikun CloudWorks is an Advanced Platform for Delivering Kubernetes & Applications Seamlessly Across Multi Cloud Environments

IBM API Connect is software to rapidly create, secure and manage APIs. IBM API Connect can be deployed in any Red Hat OpenShift environment. It’s also available as SaaS in a shared or dedicated instance, and as part of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration.

Alibaba Cloud Container Registry allows you to manage images throughout the image lifecycle. It provides secure image management, stable image build creation across global regions.

Run complex, performance-intensive and latency-sensitive applications in the cloud—without any code change.

Azure Quantum is a Microsoft Azure service that you can use to run quantum computing programs problems in the cloud.

Full dev-to-prod cloud native security platform on Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Fargate, Lambda, AWS & other container platforms

Learn more about AI Personalizer, part of Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services—an AI personalization solution that improves user engagement by delivering relevant experiences.

Portworx is persistent storage for containers and databases. Operate data services for containers including persistent storage, HA, snapshots, backup, encryption and disaster recovery. Try today!

Run your production workloads on hybrid, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) with Azure-Arc enabled Azure Stack HCI. Modernize your edge computing environments.

GKE is the industry's first fully managed Kubernetes service with full Kubernetes API, 4-way autoscaling, release channels, and multi-cluster support.

See how Densify optimizes your cloud and container resources and ensures app and workload performance is optimal.

CAST AI cuts your cloud bill in half, automates DevOps tasks, and prevents downtime in one Autonomous Kubernetes platform.

Learn about Azure Notification Hubs. Send push notifications to iOS, Android, Windows, or Kindle from any backend. Easier mobile app development.

Build Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) and save up to 80 percent with Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances and Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server.

Platform teams use Rafay’s PaaS to help developers and data scientists deploy CPU-based and GPU-based workloads in data centers, public clouds, or at the edge.

Portainer is your container management software to deploy, troubleshoot, and secure applications across cloud, datacenter, and Industrial IoT use cases.