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10/30/25, 11:47 AM Red Hat Announces Support for Red Hat OpenShift on NVIDIA BlueField DPUs | Web-Release
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, 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
“Data-intensive AI reasoning workloads demand a new era of secure and efficient infrastructure. The Red Hat OpenShift
integration of NVIDIA BlueField builds on our longstanding work to empower organizations to achieve unprecedented
scale and performance across their AI infrastructure.”
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