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What is Red Hat Desktop?
Red Hat® Desktop provides a Kubernetes-aligned local development environment that connects individual workstations to the enterprise hybrid cloud. It includes the Red Hat build of Podman Desktop, delivering an enterprise-ready experience for building and managing containers locally with consistency across environments.
Related community projects such as Kaiden enable governed, sandboxed AI environments for coding agents.
Together, these capabilities help teams move faster while maintaining the security, control, and consistency required for enterprise applications and AI-driven development.
The Red Hat Desktop experience
Red Hat build of Podman Desktop
Included as part of the Red Hat Desktop Subscription
The Red Hat build of Podman Desktop, a supported version of the Podman Desktop open source project, provides an intuitive interface for building, managing, and deploying containers. It simplifies complex container workflows, allowing developers to build locally and easily deploy to production-ready Red Hat OpenShift® environments.
Kaiden
Community Supported Project
Kaiden is an open-source tool that lets developers adopt and manage agentic coding environments with enterprise-grade security and governance. It provides sandbox environments to use coding agents safely and a universal router to bridge between local, cloud and on-prem resources available to run your AI system in data sovereignty.
Available on macOS, Windows, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Capabilities in action
Standardize local container workflows
Eradicate the "works on my machine" problem in the agentic era. The Red Hat build of Podman Desktop equips developers to build, manage, and test containerized applications locally. Teams can ensure containerized workloads align with Red Hat OpenShift production standards before deployment.
Build safely with coding agents
Shift from manual coding to orchestrating AI coding agents in policy-driven sandboxes for increased security. Protect your local infrastructure while using a hybrid AI router to connect agents with approved cloud services or governed on-premise models, ensuring your sensitive data never leaks.
Streamline local-to-cloud workflows
Transition from local development to Red Hat OpenShift with native Kubernetes integration and hardened image recommendations that minimize deployment surprises.
Manage and govern large developer fleets
Empower IT administrators to enforce strict corporate governance and manage workspace configurations across large teams, while benefiting from enterprise-level support and SLAs.
Product highlights
| Feature | Details | Benefit |
|---|---|---|
Seamless path to production | Standardizes local workspaces for building containerized applications and safely orchestrating autonomous agents. This ensures alignment with your enterprise Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift clusters. | Developers can confidently move projects from their desktop to the hybrid cloud, knowing their local workflows adhere to corporate security policies and deployment constraints. |
Governed agentic coding workspaces | Empowers developers to orchestrate autonomous AI coding agents within isolated, policy-driven sandboxes. | Speed up developer velocity while maintaining data sovereignty, ensuring agents cannot access unauthorized host systems, network resources, or credentials. |
Red Hat ecosystem integration | Includes built-in tools and workflows optimized for Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Red Hat trusted content. | Developers can access a unified toolset that reduces the friction of switching between fragmented development and deployment tools. |
Red Hat ecosystem integration | Includes managed configuration capabilities that allow IT administrators to oversee and manage settings across large developer fleets. | Organizations can maintain consistency and oversight while empowering teams to use container and AI technologies at scale. |
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What's next?
Try it
Get started with a free version of the Red Hat build of Podman Desktop, available on macOS, Windows, and Linux for individual use.
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