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10/30/25, 11:45 AM Red Hat announces support for Red Hat OpenShift on NVIDIA BlueField DPUs
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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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-generation

acceleration, deeper DOCA integration, and enhanced performance to power the next wave of cloud-
native AI factories. Red Hat is also working with NVIDIA to support Spectrum-X Ethernet networking,
enabling seamless, high-performance connectivity for AI workloads across distributed cloud

environments.

Supporting Quotes

Ryan King, vice president, AI and Infrastructure, Partner Ecosystem Success, Red Hat

“As the adoption of generative and agentic AI grows, the demand for advanced security and
performance in datacenters has never been higher, particularly with the proliferation of AI workloads.
Our collaboration with NVIDIA to enable Red Hat OpenShift support for NVIDIA BlueField DPUs

provides customers with a more reliable, secure and high-performance platform to address this
challenge and maximize their hardware investment.”

Justin Boitano, vice president, Enterprise Products, NVIDIA

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