2. Who Is Red Hat?

Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software solutions, by using a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performance cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies. The mission of Red Hat is to be the catalyst in communities of customers, contributors, and partners to create better technology the open source way.

The role of Red Hat is to help customers to connect with the open source community and their partners to effectively use open source software solutions. Red Hat actively participates in and supports the open source community. Many years of experience have convinced the company of the importance of open source to the future of the IT industry.


Red Hat is best known for its participation in the Linux community and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution. Red Hat is also active in other open source communities, including middleware projects that are centered on the JBoss developer community. Red Hat also provides virtualization solutions, cloud technologies such as OpenStack and OpenShift, and the Ceph and Gluster software-based storage projects, plus others.

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