Modernize: Migrate from SUSE Rancher RKE1 to Red Hat OpenShift

Modernize: Migrate from SUSE Rancher RKE1 to Red Hat OpenShift Why Red Hat OpenShift is the right choice for your business Enhanced security and consistency A rich developer experience and ecosystem Enterprise support How to migrate from RKE1 to Red Hat OpenShift Assessment and planning (Pre-migration) Platform and configuration migration Workload migration and validation Cutover and decommissioning Why choose Red Hat? Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform | Product Trial About the author Jonathan Gershater More like this Blog post Blog post Original podcast Original podcast Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share SUSE Rancher RKE1 reached its end-of-life (EOL) on July 31, 2025. Continuing to use it could leave your production workloads vulnerable to security risks, without vendor support, and facing compatibility challenges. If you’re considering a change, Red Hat OpenShift offers an enterprise-grade application platform that can support your Kubernetes container strategy today and scale for the future. Red Hat OpenShift is a complete, enterprise-focused container application platform built on a hardened, consistent Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) foundation. Red Hat OpenShift offers the following benefits for your organization: Integrated security - Red Hat OpenShift provides built-in, proactive security features, including Security Context Constraints (SCCs) that are more restrictive than standard Kubernetes role-based access control (RBAC), and a foundation built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS for immutable, managed-host operating systems (OSs). Consistent platform - Red Hat OpenShift delivers a consistent experience across on-premise, public cloud, and edge deployments. This consistency simplifies operations, troubleshooting, and compliance. Cluster security - Integrating Red Hat OpenShift compliance operator and applying enterprise security policies achieves a hardened security cluster. Integrated developer tools - Red Hat OpenShift features an integrated web console, built-in CI/CD tools, and ArgoCD for GitOps-based continuous deployment and developer tools. Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines and Source-to-Image (S2I) workflows boost developer productivity. The operator framework - Red Hat OpenShift takes advantage of operators (software extensions that manage the lifecycle of an application)—from deployment to upgrades, backups, and scaling—making Day 2 operations simple and reliable. Integration with existing DevOps toolchains, including GitHub, GitLab, and Jira.