Red Hat Sovereign Cloud is a portfolio-based solution for building and operating cloud environments with requirements for data location, infrastructure control, and regional operations. It combines Cloud Management capabilities with an OpenShift-based application platform, automation, and deployment options through regional cloud partners.

Key Capabilities

Workload platform: Red Hat OpenShift supplies Container Management capabilities for deploying and managing Kubernetes applications. The documented sovereign-cloud architecture also supports virtual machines through OpenShift Virtualization.
Cluster governance: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management manages cluster lifecycles across infrastructure environments. Its policy framework applies configuration requirements to selected clusters and reports or remediates violations.
Repeatable operations: Ansible Automation Platform and OpenShift GitOps automate infrastructure configuration and application deployment. The reference architecture separates management clusters from workload clusters.
Deployment flexibility: Implementations can use customer-controlled infrastructure or regional providers. Red Hat documents a disconnected deployment approach using locally mirrored software repositories.
Regional support: Red Hat Confirmed Sovereign Support provides an optional support model with regional storage of diagnostic data, isolated escalation paths, and engineers physically located and legally authorized to work in the selected region.

Audience & Use Cases

Audience: Government IT teams, regulated enterprises, cloud platform engineers, and regional cloud service providers.
Use cases: Building locally controlled application platforms, governing distributed clusters, deploying sensitive workloads, and keeping support data and escalation processes within a defined jurisdiction.

Technical Specifications

Foundation: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenShift, and associated management, automation, and security components selected for the implementation.
Operating model: Infrastructure location, operator responsibilities, isolation controls, and service coverage depend on the customer or partner deployment.
Support availability: Confirmed Sovereign Support is available in the EU and United States. Eligibility excludes discontinued, self-supported, academic, and Red Hat-managed-service products.

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