Red Hat announced on May 12 new milestones in its Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA software platform, aiming to advance the adoption of artificial intelligence and autonomous agents in enterprises. The latest updates are designed to enhance security capabilities for continuously operating agents and provide ready-to-deploy solutions that help organizations move from experimentation to production.
The company said these developments matter because they enable trusted, always-on AI operations at scale, supporting businesses as they seek secure and compliant infrastructure for advanced AI workloads. The Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA is powered by Red Hat AI Enterprise alongside open models and tools from NVIDIA AI Enterprise, offering a unified foundation for agentic AI in production environments.
A key part of the announcement is the integration of OpenShell, an open source project founded by NVIDIA. OpenShell provides a sandboxed runtime environment for autonomous agents, allowing organizations stronger policy controls and auditable operations. Joint engineering efforts are underway to connect OpenShell with Red Hat’s full-stack platform so that oversight can be maintained at the infrastructure level. “Moving AI from corporate experimentation to an industrial engine requires a sovereign, consistent foundation across the hybrid cloud,” Chris Wright, chief technology officer and senior vice president of Global Engineering at Red Hat, said. “Through our strategic co-engineering efforts with NVIDIA, Red Hat provides the architectural control and open source innovation enterprises need to scale agentic AI with confidence. By delivering a hardened, zero-trust path for organizations to own their intelligence, we are enabling our customers to maintain technical independence in an increasingly complex global landscape.”
The updated platform also features confidential computing options through confidential containers using NVIDIA Confidential Computing within Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers—now available as a technology preview—and integrates security features such as SELinux and FIPS compliance along with runtime protection based on NVIDIA DOCA.
Further enhancements include support for Model-as-a-Service via the Red Hat AI gateway using standard interfaces like those compatible with OpenAI APIs; operational oversight enabled by MLflow; Day 0 support for new hardware architectures such as NVIDIA Blackwell; and co-developed blueprints intended to simplify deployment of complex enterprise use cases.
Justin Boitano, vice president of Enterprise AI Platforms at NVIDIA said: “Agentic AI is transforming enterprise operations. Every company will need an AI factory to build, deploy and govern digital workers at scale. Red Hat and NVIDIA are co-engineering the Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA, bringing NVIDIA OpenShell, NVIDIA Confidential Computing and the full AI stack together so enterprises can securely run their most demanding agentic AI workloads.”
Updates will become available later this month through the Red Hat Customer Portal.
