Managed OpenShift

Public Preview: Azure Red Hat OpenShift with hosted control planes

Azure Red Hat OpenShift with hosted control planes is now in public preview. It is a new deployment option for Azure Red Hat OpenShift that runs the OpenShift control plane as a fully managed service, separate from the worker nodes that run customer applications.

Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Chile Central

Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) is now generally available in Azure Chile Central, expanding regional availability for OpenShift deployments across South America.

Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Belgium Central

Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) is now generally available in Azure Belgium Central, expanding regional availability for OpenShift deployments across Europe.

Generally Available: Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in Austria East

The Austria East region is now generally available to Azure Red Hat OpenShift customers and partners. The region includes three availability zones, supporting resilient and scalable operations.

Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift adds NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPU support

Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) now supports NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPU-based Azure Virtual Machine SKUs, enabling customers to run large-scale AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads on a fully managed OpenShift service.

Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Indonesia Central

Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) is now generally available in the Indonesia Central Azure region, expanding regional availability for customers running mission‑critical OpenShift workloads on Azure.

Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift Managed Identity and Workload Identity

Azure Red Hat OpenShift now supports managed identities and workload identities as a generally available capability, enabling you to run OpenShift clusters and applications on Azure without long lived service principal credentials.

Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in Malaysia West, New Zealand North, and Mexico Central

Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now generally available in three additional Azure regions: Malaysia West, New Zealand North, and Mexico Central.

Public Preview: Azure Command Launcher for Java

At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we announced the Public Preview of the Azure Command Launcher for Java, a new JVM launcher optimized specifically for Azure.