Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering Salt Lake City 2026

November 9, 2026 | 7:00 AM - 3:00 PM MST / UTC-7

Hilton Salt Lake City Center | Salt Lake City UT | United States

Event overview

 

Join us in Salt Lake City for a no-cost, in-person OpenShift Commons Gathering alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. This event brings together the global OpenShift community-including users, contributors, partners, and Red Hat experts-to share knowledge, build connections, and learn from real production experiences.

 

Hear practitioner-driven talks on app modernization, developer productivity, AI/LLM workloads, supply chain security, VM migration, GitOps, edge, and scaling OpenShift across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Expect practical insights you can bring back to your team.

Registration

Log in to your existing Red Hat account to register for and manage your event experience. If you do not have an account you can register for one during the login process.

Agenda

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Hands-On Experiences

Accelerate your cloud-native journey with Red Hat OpenShift Roadshows - a series of immersive, hands-on experiences. From platform engineering to developer productivity and security, we offer a range of interactive workshops tailored for different roles and experience levels.  Discover our hands-on experiences, delivered by Red Hat experts available to the community at OpenShift Commons!
 
 

OpenShift Dev

1:15 PM - 3:30 PM MST

 

This developer-centric roadshow, which introduces agentic AI and explores contemporary developer tooling, focuses on improving developer output on OpenShift. Providing hands-on experience following a developer's daily routine to demonstrate how Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces and Red Hat Developer Hub facilitate greater development efficiency.

OpenShift Ops

1:15 PM - 3:30 PM MST

 

Tailored for operations teams, this roadshow focuses on building environments optimized for developers and establishing Day 1 operational workflows. Through hands-on exercises participants will effectively deploy, manage, scale, and secure enterprise-grade OpenShift. This roadshow covers critical operational tasks, including initial installation, performance optimization, multi-cluster administration, and security enforcement.

OpenShift Security

1:15 PM - 3:30 PM MST

 

Designed by Red Hat's security experts specifically targeted for security and operations teams. Customers wanting to scale application security across their IT infrastructure with OpenShift will learn how to enforce security in this hands-on experience.

Platform Engineering

1:15 PM - 3:30 PM MST

 

The Red Hat Platform Engineering Roadshow is a hands-on experience that demonstrates how organizations can increase developer productivity and security posture by adopting a platform engineering mindset. The roadshow guides participants through a day in the life of a Platform Engineer creating an IDP, from the design phase to the mature Product-as-as-Platform phase.

OpenShift Virtualization

1:15 PM - 3:30 PM MST

 

Designed for infrastructure architects and VM administrators seeking a path toward modernization, this workshop explores viable alternatives for virtualization environments. Participants will engage with Red Hat specialists to discover the potential of OpenShift Virtualization and investigate practical strategies for evolving their existing infrastructure.

Travel Information

Hilton Salt Lake City Center

255 South West Temple | Salt Lake City UT | United States

Red Hat is committed to the health and safety of our customers, partners, employees, and attendees. All attendees will be expected to follow Red Hat, venue, and local guidelines regarding health and safety. Please note that all protocols are subject to change.

Registration

Log in to your existing Red Hat account to register for and manage your event experience. If you do not have an account you can register for one during the login process.

Contact

If you have general questions about the event, contact:

openshiftcommons@redhat.com