Red Hat SummitDeveloper productivity with Red Hat technologies
Imagine a software organization humming at its most efficient. With a refreshed approach to development, you can make it happen. Cut out the friction and you’ll be able to deliver new capabilities faster, while improving your security posture. We call this developer productivity—a conviction that software developers should be freed from drudgery and bottlenecks in order to concentrate on high-value work.
Why we make developer productivity a priority
Few jobs can match the cognitive load required to be a software developer. The vast universe of tools and technologies never stops expanding. On top of their already intense workloads, development teams often have to consider a wide range of complex architectural and platform choices, and navigate critical operational, security, and compliance requirements. These organizational challenges can compound, slowing down progress.
Developer productivity initiatives aim to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness with which development teams can build, test, and deploy high-quality software. As part of these efforts, teams may adopt common tools, processes, and environments to minimize friction and maximize focus.
Assisted by golden paths and integrated tools that are made available via a self-service approach, development teams can quickly deliver software solutions to build, test, deploy and observe in production environments. And they can do so with greater flexibility, and without compromises.
Discover how Red Hat® technologies work together to support developer productivity and give your teams a competitive advantage.
Platform engineering
Platform engineering can play a key role in reducing friction for developers with curated content, tools, templates, and workflows that provide flexibility while also balancing with organizational consistency.
Golden paths
Golden paths can support developer productivity by offering a catalog of predefined content for building and deploying software in ways that meet organizational standards, including security compliance. Through platform engineering initiatives, teams can curate golden paths which combine templates and workflows to jumpstart and accelerate development projects.
Developer productivity in action
What does developer productivity look like in practice? Let’s explore the journey from a developer’s laptop to a production environment, as a hypothetical team builds an AI-enabled chatbot in a hybrid cloud environment.
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1. Identifying a business need
In our example, the organization has a need for a secure chatbot with large language model (LLM) capabilities. A development team takes on the project.
2. Choosing a template
With templates and services already cataloged, the developer can choose a software template and an LLM that the organization has already provisioned.
3. Provisioning a cluster
As the developer runs the template, the platform automatically provisions the requirements in a cluster. Storage, configuration, and GitOps artifacts all come online as the template runs.
4. Testing
The developer can interact with the application, modify the code, and continue interacting with it.
5. Building an image
When the application is ready, the developer can check in their changes. This initiates the trusted application pipeline, building and signing the application image and checking dependencies for vulnerabilities, following the requirements of the secure software supply chain.
6. Deploying the application
With the application image built and signed, the developer can deploy the application to an environment on preset infrastructure. Goal achieved!
Discover Red Hat offerings
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift® lets developers use the tools they rely on across a variety of applications, including cloud-native, legacy, and modernized applications, wherever they are deployed—on premise, in the cloud, or at the edge. Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines and Red Hat OpenShift GitOps, included with Red Hat OpenShift, streamline developer workflows, and provide integrations with many other open source tools.
Red Hat Developer Hub
Red Hat Developer Hub is a developer portal that promotes efficiency and collaboration by visually consolidating elements of the development process. It streamlines onboarding speed, developer productivity, and collaboration through a unified and open platform while reducing cognitive load and frustration for the development team.
Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain
Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain helps developers code, build, deploy, and monitor software delivery that complies with their organization’s security practices. It integrates guardrails into software development to reduce the risk of security threats and build user trust.
Red Hat Application Foundations
Red Hat Application Foundations is a unified suite of tools that increase developer productivity by providing API Management, data streaming, enterprise integration, application security, migration, and framework capabilities needed to deliver cloud-native applications. It includes Migration Toolkit for Applications, which offers guidance for migrating your applications to Red Hat technologies.
Podman Desktop
Podman Desktop is a free, open source tool that simplifies working with containerized software applications in a local developer environment. Developers can use Podman Desktop to gain hands-on experience with containers and Kuberentes, and for ongoing, local development of containerized applications.
