Unifying multivendor DPUs in Red Hat OpenShift

Unifying multivendor DPUs in Red Hat OpenShift A unified management platform for diverse hardware Standardized discovery through abstraction Deploying workloads with Kubernetes-native primitives Enabling true workload portability and interoperability What this means for Red Hat customers Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform | Product Trial About the author Balazs Nemeth More like this File encryption and decryption made easy with GPG Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS supports Capacity Reservations and Capacity Blocks for Machine Learning Technically Speaking | Platform engineering for AI agents Technically Speaking | Driving healthcare discoveries with AI Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share Data Processing Units (DPUs) represent a significant evolution in datacenter architecture. By offloading infrastructure tasks like networking, security, and storage from the main CPU, they promise to unlock new levels of cloud capabilities. Red Hat OpenShift 4.20 delivers a major breakthrough in solving the primary challenge of DPU adoption: vendor lock-in. This new capability provides unified, vendor-agnostic support for different DPUs, all within a single cluster. This is the result of our focused, standards-based strategy. We began this journey by introducing tech preview support for the first DPU (the Intel IPU) in Red Hat OpenShift 4.19. By building on the open standards of the Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) project, our work for the 4.20 release has expanded this to include 2 additional DPUs: the Senao SX904 (Intel NetSec Accelerator) and the Marvell Octeon 10. This directly addresses the industry's largest DPU challenge: the fragmented landscape. Until now, organizations have been forced into isolated, vendor-specific environments, each with proprietary tools, drivers, and APIs. This approach eliminates that fragmentation. As we've discussed in cloud-native enablement of DPUs , our goal is to make DPUs a smoothly integrated and abstracted component of Red Hat OpenShift. Our integration work is centered on a standard Red Hat OpenShift cluster.