Red Hat Developer Hub

An enterprise-grade, open developer platform for building developer portals, containing a supported and opinionated framework. Red Hat Developer Hub helps reduce friction and frustration for engineering teams while boosting their productivity and increasing their organization's competitive advantages.

Red Hat Developer Hub

Empowering engineering to deliver business value faster

We brought our own expertise and customer experiences together with a community of partners and open source projects to improve developer experience on Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes. Both are critical to our customers, and we want to provide developer tools that make it easier and more productive for your teams to build services and applications along with lowering the cognitive burden of navigating the complexity of application development.

Red Hat Developer Hub is an enterprise-grade, open developer platform for building developer portals, containing a supported and opinionated framework. It helps reduce friction and frustration for engineering teams while boosting their productivity and increasing their organization's competitive advantages. Learn more  

Along with Red Hat Developer Hub, we are releasing Red Hat Plug-ins for Backstage, a bundle of 6 plug-ins that extend the functionality of the upstream project. Red Hat Plug-ins for Backstage can work in tandem with Red Hat Developer Hub and any other pre-existing customer installations of Backstage. Learn more  

Sign up for Red Hat Developer Hub Preview

Red Hat Developer Hub is currently available to a limited set of customers as a preview. We would like to work closely with you to get feedback . To get started, send an email to

rhdh-interest@redhat.com to get access to the Red Hat Developer Hub platform today.

Janus IDP demo

Watch your host Jason Froehlich walk you through the Janus Showcase application deployed onto OpenShift.
He shows you how to log in with Keycloak through GitHub and brings you straight from the front-page to learning paths and creating a first component through a golden path! Witness how your code lands in a GitHub repository and what you can do with the Red Hat Developer Hub when deployed to OpenShift. Make sure to also check out the Janus Showcase (https://showcase.janus-idp.io/) and experience the overview first hand.

The advantages at a glance

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Single pane of glass to increase engineering productivity

We’ve taken the open innovation of Backstage further, with a hardened and integrated internal developer platform offering: Red Hat Developer Hub. 

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Self-service with guardrails for cloud-native development

IT organizations are the unsung heroes in the background, keeping developer workflows rolling smoothly with the right tools, validated environments, and on-demand services. Red Hat Developer Hub helps developers focus on crafting beautiful code, not the plumbing underneath it.

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Best practices with GitOps & automation

Red Hat Developer Hub adds support for key Red Hat-developed plug-ins, including GitOps with Argo CD and Pipelines with Tekton, to drive a more consistent automation experience based on GitOps and Pipelines.

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Real-time view of application & infrastructure health & security

Additional plug-ins like Application Topology for Kubernetes and Multicluster View with Open Cluster Manager (OCM) drive a consistent user experience into the overall application and infrastructure health as well as security.

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Simplified onboarding with customizable & repeatable golden paths

Red Hat Developer Hub includes validated templates that provide opinionated, pre-architected approaches to building and deploying software from creation to production, supporting application development teams on their journey to cloud-native deployment.

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Access to system architecture & application documentation

Engineers write documentation in Markdown files that live together with their code, giving teams access to system architecture and application documentation when and where they need it.

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Open source innovation with stability, support & reliability

Red Hat Developer Hub gives IT organizations a developer platform built on open source innovation, with the stability, support, and reliability that they’ve come to expect from Red Hat’s hybrid cloud technologies.

Get involved

Janus is an open source community that relies on contributions from its users. We are always looking for new contributors!

Join the community

DevNation Master Courses: Kubernetes Beginner 1 & 2