Red Hat Application Services subscription guide

Red Hat Application Services subscription details and guide

This subscription guide provides an overview of Red Hat® Application Services subscriptions, their benefits and entitlements, and Red Hat policies covering the use of these subscriptions.

Red Hat uses the term “Application Services” to refer to capabilities that provide customers with tools to design and develop cloud-native architectures and applications for hybrid cloud execution. This definition reflects the evolution of middleware to the cloud, with specific capabilities to run better in orchestrated (Kube and container) environments.

In addition to supporting traditional self-managed Application Services deployments, Red Hat offers capabilities as managed cloud services to provide customer choice in operational responsibilities and accelerate time to value. This guide covers subscription considerations for self-managed Application Services products. Other Red Hat products, including platforms and managed cloud services, are introduced here for context, but subscription considerations for those products on their own are not detailed in this guide.

Red Hat has worked over time to increase the value and flexibility of these subscriptions as we continue to evolve our portfolio of application services products for hybrid cloud operation.

This subscription guide will help you better understand:

• Red Hat Application Services products and the range of benefits included with each product subscription.
• Red Hat policies that permit broad deployment of subscriptions across on-premise, private cloud, public cloud, and hosted cloud environments. Specific use cases are detailed herein.
• How to determine the optimal licensing strategy across any customer life cycle stage and any chosen deployment location.
• Specific use cases for integrating Red Hat Application Services with Red Hat Enterprise Linux® or Red Hat OpenShift® platforms or together with partner and 3rd-party hardware, software, and services.

General subscription benefits for all products

• Predictability. Subscriptions are offered on an annual or multiyear basis and include access to new versions at no additional cost, so there are no large upfront license fees or hidden costs.
• Flexibility. Red Hat’s application services subscriptions provide value through the entire application life cycle—from development through production—and allow a variety of deployment options from on-premise to public cloud.
• Integrated and certified enterprise platforms. You have access to enterprise open source application services platforms, in source code and binary forms, along with enterprise product documentation specific to each product release.
• Regular upgrades and updates. These include enhancements, new features, new platform certifications, and access to the latest defect and security fixes.
• Security response. Subscriptions include Red Hat’s industry-recognized security response process to help you proactively address potential security issues in their environments.
• Long-term stability. Each Red Hat Application Services product has a defined multiyear product life cycle with strict update policies that maintain long-term application stability and compatibility.
• World-class technical support. Open source Application Services experts provide unlimited incident support with 24x7 coverage up with 1-hour response time for your critical issues.
• Red Hat Customer Portal access. This is a single portal for accessing all of the benefits of a Red Hat subscription, including enterprise software delivery, product updates, critical issue notifications, knowledge base access, and case management.
• Partner certifications. Know that your enterprise application services are fully certified by leading Red Hat independent software vendor (ISV) partners.
• Legal assurance. The Red Hat Open Source Assurance program safeguards your development and deployment of open source solutions from legal harm.

Red Hat Application Services products

This guide covers the following Red Hat Application Services products and bundle subscriptions. See Table 1 below for descriptions.

• Products and bundles available for new subscriptions:
  • Red Hat Application Foundations
  • Red Hat Runtimes
  • Red Hat Service Interconnect
    
  • Red Hat Integration
  • Red Hat JBoss® Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP)
  • Red Hat JBoss Web Server
  • Red Hat Data Grid
  • Red Hat AMQ (streams for Apache Kafka, AMQ broker)
  • Red Hat Fuse
  • Red Hat 3scale API Management
    
  • Red Hat Application Services Portfolio
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization
  • Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes
  • Transitioned to IBM
    • Further information: IBM Expands Business Automation Portfolio with Open Source Process and Decision Automation
    • Red Hat Process Automation
    • Red Hat Process Automation Manager
    • Red Hat Decision Manager
    • The descriptions in this document also cover all program-specific or route-specific versions of the bundles and products listed above. Examples of these are:
      • “For Red Hat OpenShift” or “for Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated” product descriptions.
      • “Extended life cycle support add-ons,” if applicable.
      • “Certified Cloud Service Provider, embedded, L3-only support partners, OEM.”

      What products are included with each subscription?

      Red Hat Application Services “bundled subscriptions” help you deploy a choice of one or more products on the same physical location or to separate hardware units, provided that each unit running part or all of the product is counted toward the subscription total.

      Table 1 shows the complete list of products and selected components included with each subscription. See component details pages for a comprehensive list of components. Table 1 outlines which software is eligible for support or deployment in a manner consistent with the “production purposes” definition in Appendix 1 of Red Hat license agreements.

      Table 1. Subscription products and components

      Streams for Apache Kafka 1

      Red Hat build of Debezium

      Red Hat 3scale API Management

      Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry

      Red Hat build of Apache Camel 2

      All products and components included as part of Red Hat Runtimes

      Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

      Red Hat Data Grid

      Red Hat JBoss Web Server

      Red Hat build of Quarkus

      Red Hat build of OpenJDK

      Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform expansion pack

      Red Hat build of Node.js

      Red Hat Build of Keycloak

      Migration toolkit for Applications

      Migration toolkit for Runtimes

      Red Hat build of Apache Camel

      Streams for Apache Kafka 1

      Red Hat 3scale API Management

      Red Hat build of Debezium

      Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry,

      plus all “Red Hat Runtimes” products and components

      Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

      Red Hat JBoss Web Server

      Red Hat support for Spring Boot

      Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform expansion pack

      Red Hat build of Node.js

      Red Hat build of OpenJDK

      Red Hat Single Sign-On

      Migration toolkit for applications

      Migration toolkit for runtimes

      Red Hat JBoss Web Server

      Red Hat build of OpenJDK

      Migration toolkit for applications

      Migration toolkit for runtimes

      Red Hat Data Grid

      Red Hat JBoss EAP (restricted for running Red Hat Data Grid only)

      Red Hat build of Apache Camel

      Red Hat JBoss EAP

      Red Hat build of OpenJDK

      Apache HTTP server

      Internet information services (IIS) connector, iPlanet connector,

      Apache Commons Jsvc

      Red Hat Application Services portfolio

      (formerly Red Hat Middleware portfolio)

      Red Hat JBoss EAP

      Red Hat JBoss Web Server

      Cloud-native Red Hat Runtimes

      Red Hat Data Grid

      AMQ broker (only)

      Red Hat Middleware Core Services Collection

      Red Hat 3scale API Management

      Red Hat Process Automation Manager

      Red Hat Decision Manager

      Red Hat Process Automation Manager

      Red Hat Decision Manager

      Red Hat JBoss EAP

      Red Hat build of OptaPlanner (formerly Business Optimizer)

      Red Hat build of OpenJDK,

      (formerly Red Hat JBoss BRMS)

      Red Hat JBoss EAP

      Red Hat Decision Manager

      Red Hat build of OptaPlanner (formerly Business Optimizer)

      Red Hat build of OpenJDK

      Red Hat JBoss EAP

      Red Hat Decision Manager

      Red Hat Process Automation Manager

      Red Hat build of OptaPlanner (formerly Business Optimizer)

      Red Hat build of OpenJDK

      Embedded JWS/Tomcat for Spring Boot

      Subscription rules

      Layered products

      Layered products include multiple underlying products, which are intended to be used together. Examples include:

      • Red Hat Fuse includes Red Hat AMQ and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
      • Red Hat OpenShift includes single sign-on, Red Hat build of Keycloak and Red Hat build of Quarkus.

      These products and components—which are included in a single SKU—are typically used together with or in support of the named product.

      In some cases, they can be used standalone on separate hardware. However, this requires excess unused capacity and often results in a more expensive usage of a layered product.

      For example, the expectation for a customer buying 64 cores of Red Hat Fuse is that the included JBoss EAP will be used as the runtime for Red Hat Fuse. If a customer is only using 48 cores, for example, they might want to repurpose the 16 unused cores for JBoss EAP-only workloads. This is an edge case, but it is fine if the customer chooses to do this. However, they should acknowledge that these are effectively very expensive JBoss EAP cores.

      The most important point is that a layered product cannot be deconstructed into numerous individual subscriptions. For example, a 64-core subscription of Red Hat Fuse is not equivalent to independent 64-core subscriptions for each included product or component. It provides 64 total cores, upon which one or all products and subcomponents can be deployed.

      In select cases—for example, single sign-on in Red Hat OpenShift—the product or component has a restricted use case and cannot be deployed separately from Red Hat OpenShift, regardless of whether excess capacity of the named product exists.

      For the full list of product inclusions, see Table 1.

      Product bundles

      A product bundle is a subscription entitlement that offers a single pool of cores intended to be shared across multiple products, components, and use cases. Your usage could be of several products together—for example, Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Application Foundations bundle has a combined installation, identity management, and user experience. You might also be using individual products (e.g., Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat build of Camel, Red Hat 3scale API Management, etc.) independently for product-specific use cases. It does not matter which product or combination of products is deployed at any time, as long as the combined core count does not exceed the total number of paid subscription cores. These cores may be used on different CPUs or on any mix of on-premise, private cloud, or public cloud environments.

      Cluster editions

      Application Services products with cluster editions are designed to provide consistency and flexible deployment across the entire Red Hat OpenShift environment. Red Hat recognizes that not all components will be used on each Red Hat OpenShift core across the entire environment and offers favorable pricing for cluster editions to provide customers with a cost-effective and flexible option to deploy any included component at any time during the term of the subscription on Red Hat OpenShift. The total core count for cluster editions must equal the total core count for Red OpenShift during the entire subscription term. See Appendix 1 for details.

      Bare-metal editions

      Products with bare-metal editions may only be deployed machines using Red Hat OpenShift bare-metal products.

      Core bands

      Red Hat Application Services products are sold in units of “core bands” of 2-core and 4-core units. In addition, some products may be available for partner-embedded use in single core multiples.

      Application development life cycle

      Appendix 1 of Red Hat’s license agreement defines 2 use case modes when determining whether to charge application services subscription fees for units running in a specific use case: developer purposes and production purposes. Any units running for development purposes are not counted and do not require subscription fees for each unit. Any units running for production purposes are counted and do require subscription fees for each unit.