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Press Release

Red Hat Announces Support for Red Hat OpenShift on NVIDIA
BlueField DPUs

Red Hat OpenShift on NVIDIA BlueField DPUs provides a secure and performant platform
for AI factories and next-generation datacenter deployments

October 29, 2025 – Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today
announced support for Red Hat OpenShift on NVIDIA BlueField data processing units
(DPUs), making it easier for organizations to deploy demanding AI application workloads
with optimized security, networking and storage capabilities.

While modern business environments require increasingly secure and efficient ways to
handle a growing volume of data, AI applications often compete with essential
infrastructure services for resources. This can lead to potential performance bottlenecks
and security risks. To address this challenge, Red Hat OpenShift on NVIDIA BlueField
offers a common, cloud-native platform that supports enhanced networking, streamlined
provisioning and lifecycle management.

This approach creates isolation between the AI applications and infrastructure
workloads, including networking and security services, that run on BlueField, offering
additional benefits such as:

 Optimized resource utilization: Red Hat OpenShift uses intelligent resource
management to offload networking services from the CPU to the DPU, which frees
up resources for AI application workloads, thereby optimizing resource
utilization.
 Data plane and storage traffic acceleration: Red Hat OpenShift on BlueField
helps speed up the data plane and storage traffic by offloading crypto and storage
processing to the DPU, with support for NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) and an
accelerated OVS data path, which enhances performance for demanding AI
workloads.
 Advanced cloud networking: Red Hat OpenShift, with distributed routing
capabilities powered by BlueField, helps improve secure multi-tenancy, network
scalability, performance and traffic efficiency across clusters while streamlining
network operations.
 Improved security posture: Red Hat OpenShift offloads infrastructure tasks to
BlueField which helps reduce the attack surface for applications with a layered
approach to security, effectively improving security posture.

Support for NVIDIA BlueField on Red Hat OpenShift will be available as a technical
preview in the coming weeks. Red Hat will continue to collaborate with NVIDIA to
integrate additional support capabilities for the NVIDIA DOCA software framework and
third party network functions for NVIDIA BlueField on Red Hat OpenShift.

Looking ahead, NVIDIA BlueField-4 will further extend these capabilities with next-