We are proud to announce that Red Hat has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management for the fourth consecutive year.

As enterprise IT organizations scale modern container infrastructure across diverse cloud environments while rapidly adopting artificial intelligence (AI), Red Hat believes establishing a consistent, secure and resilient platform foundation becomes critical. In Red Hat’s opinion, Red Hat OpenShift® provides an enterprise-grade container management platform that enables platform engineers and operations teams to manage containers, virtual machines (VMs) and AI workloads with unified operational control across any footprint, from on-premise datacenters to major public clouds and edge sites.

Key talking points for your customers

When engaging with prospects, emphasize how Red Hat OpenShift delivers superior container management value:

• Comprehensive container platform: Provide a fully integrated platform powered by Kubernetes that handles the full lifecycle of containerized applications.
• Orchestration consistency: Deliver a trusted, uniform management experience whether workloads are in the datacenter, public cloud, or at the edge.
• Scalable management velocity: Accelerate deployment through embedded container security and operations services designed specifically for hybrid cloud scale.

Next steps

We encourage you to integrate this news into your customer conversations. Advise them to take a Container Management course, read the Container Management Technology Decision Point guide, and view Partner Demand Center campaigns (request access). To ensure you are following strict compliance and usage guidelines of Gartner, please review the official Partner FAQ.

Source: Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Container Management,” Dennis Smith, Tony Iams, Wataru Katsurashima, Lucas Albuquerque, Carolin Zhou, Bhuvie Chhabra, 2 September 2026.

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