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Red Hat Announces Support for Red Hat

OpenShift on NVIDIA BlueField DPUs

30/10/2025

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-generation acceleration,

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