OPSWRO is Now a Red Hat Partner — RHEL, OpenShift & Ansible in Poland

As of March 2026, we are an official Red Hat partner in Poland. We've worked with Linux for years — managing servers, deploying Kubernetes, automating operations with Ansible. The partnership gives us what was missing until now: technology and support straight from Red Hat.

What Does the Red Hat Partnership Mean?

The Red Hat Partner Program is a global program where Red Hat certifies companies for subscription resale, implementation, and technical support. As a Red Hat partner, we have:

• Access to the Red Hat ecosystem — subscriptions, training, certifications, technical materials and product roadmap
• Authorized reseller status — RHEL, OpenShift, and Ansible subscriptions at competitive prices
• Priority vendor support — escalation to Red Hat, access to knowledge base and partner portal
• Certified competencies — implementations aligned with Red Hat reference architectures

Why Red Hat?

Red Hat is the market leader in enterprise Linux and container platforms. RHEL runs in over 90% of Fortune 500 companies. OpenShift is the most popular enterprise Kubernetes platform. Ansible is the de facto standard for IT automation.

For our clients, the difference is tangible:

Aspect	Free Linux / vanilla K8s	Red Hat Ecosystem
Vendor support	None — community only	SLA, priority patches, 10-year lifecycle
Security	DIY patching	Red Hat Security Advisories, Insights
Certification	None	Hardware and software certification
Kubernetes	Manual configuration of many components	OpenShift — production-ready
Automation	Bash scripts, ad hoc	Ansible Automation Platform — enterprise-grade
Compliance	Manual audits	OpenSCAP, compliance-as-code

In production it's mostly a question of risk. Free Linux without an SLA works fine — until a critical vulnerability shows up and you're left alone with the community and your own calendar. Red Hat guarantees a patch in hours, not weeks.

What We Offer as a Red Hat Partner

1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

RHEL is the foundation of enterprise infrastructure. We implement and manage RHEL in production environments with full hardening, monitoring, and automated patching.

What we deliver:

• RHEL 8/9 installation and configuration — bare metal, VM, cloud
• Hardening according to CIS Benchmark and STIG
• Red Hat Satellite — centralized server, patch, and subscription management
• Red Hat Insights — proactive risk analysis, security and performance recommendations
• Active Directory / LDAP / IdM integration

What sets RHEL apart is a guaranteed lifecycle of up to 10 years, hardware certification from Dell, HP, and Lenovo, and software certification from Oracle, SAP, and IBM. That's why it ends up where predictability matters most.

2. OpenShift Container Platform

OpenShift is Kubernetes with a full production ecosystem — built-in CI/CD (Tekton Pipelines), image registry, monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), service mesh (Istio/Envoy), user management, and advanced security.

We deploy OpenShift in three models:

• On-premise — dedicated servers, full data control
• Cloud — ROSA (AWS), ARO (Azure), OSD (GCP)
• Hybrid — single management, multiple environments

For companies that have already deployed Kubernetes and want to go further — OpenShift eliminates the need to maintain dozens of components yourself (Ingress, cert-manager, monitoring, RBAC, registry…). You get it out-of-the-box, with Red Hat support.

3. Ansible Automation Platform

We use Ansible every day in our infrastructure work. As a Red Hat partner, we extend that to the full Ansible Automation Platform — IT automation across an entire organization.

What we automate:

• Provisioning — creating servers, VMs, containers from a single playbook
• Configuration management — consistent configuration state across hundreds of servers
• Deployment — rolling updates, blue-green, canary releases
• Compliance-as-code — automated security policy compliance checks
• Event-Driven Ansible — automatic response to monitoring events

Ansible Automation Controller (formerly Tower) provides dashboards, RBAC, auditing, and API integration — everything you need to make automation manageable across your organization.

4. CentOS to RHEL Migration

CentOS Linux 7 reached end of life on June 30, 2024. CentOS Stream is a rolling release that isn’t suitable for production in many organizations. We migrate CentOS servers to RHEL without reinstallation, using the convert2rhel tool.

How we do it:

• Audit of existing CentOS servers — packages, configuration, dependencies
• convert2rhel — in-place migration without system reinstallation
• Application and service validation after migration
• Connection to Red Hat Satellite / Subscription Manager
• Optional: RHEL 7 → 8 → 9 upgrade with Leapp

Source	Target	Method
CentOS 7	RHEL 7/8/9	convert2rhel + Leapp
CentOS 8	RHEL 8/9	convert2rhel
CentOS Stream 8/9	RHEL 8/9	convert2rhel
Oracle Linux 7/8	RHEL 7/8	convert2rhel
Alma/Rocky Linux	RHEL 8/9	convert2rhel

Every migration with minimal or zero downtime. We preserve existing configuration, applications, and data.

5. Red Hat Subscriptions

As an authorized reseller, we help select and manage Red Hat subscriptions:

• RHEL — Server, Workstation, Developer
• OpenShift — Platform Plus, Kubernetes Engine
• Ansible — Automation Platform, Event-Driven Ansible
• Satellite — infrastructure management
• Support levels — Standard (business hours) vs Premium (24/7)

We optimize licensing costs and ensure you’re paying for what you actually use. We handle renewals and help with expansions.

6. Linux Support & Administration 24/7

An unpatched server sooner or later becomes someone's way in, and a backup with no monitoring turns out empty exactly when you need it. That's why we offer ongoing administration:

• 24/7 monitoring — Prometheus, Grafana, alerting to Slack/PagerDuty
• Patching & updates — automated maintenance windows, staging testing
• Troubleshooting — root cause analysis, incident response
• Security hardening — regular audits according to CIS Benchmark
• Reporting — monthly SLA, uptime, and security posture reports

In Numbers

Metric	Value
Years of enterprise Linux experience	10+
Linux servers under management	100+
Downtime during CentOS → RHEL migrations	0
Support availability	24/7/365

Behind each of these numbers are real deployments, not a sales slide.

Who Is This For?

The Red Hat partnership enables us to serve a wider range of needs:

• Companies running CentOS in production — CentOS end of life is a problem for now, not for someday. Migration to RHEL is safe, fast, and happens without reinstallation
• Organizations deploying containers — OpenShift is enterprise Kubernetes with full support. When maintaining vanilla K8s starts eating too much of the team's time, OpenShift takes that weight off
• DevOps teams seeking automation — Ansible Automation Platform scales automation from “quick scripts” to a manageable platform
• Companies needing regulatory compliance — NIS2, GDPR, PCI-DSS — Red Hat provides compliance tools and certifications
• Organizations seeking a single Linux vendor — subscriptions + implementation + administration + support from one partner

Linux Alone Isn't Enough

Linux is the system's kernel. Red Hat adds a whole ecosystem on top — and in production, that difference is what counts:

1. We don't stop at installing the system — we build manageable infrastructure. RHEL together with Satellite and Insights forms a management platform, not a loose set of separately configured machines.
2. We connect Linux with the rest of the stack. Kubernetes (OpenShift), CI/CD (GitLab), monitoring, automation (Ansible) — the system is part of the whole, not a separate island.
3. We're accountable for results. SLA, regular patching, security audits, compliance reports. An unpatched server is our problem, not the client's.

Let’s Talk

If your company is running CentOS without a migration plan, needs enterprise Kubernetes with OpenShift, or wants to automate infrastructure management with Ansible — get in touch. The first consultation is free.

Check out our Red Hat partner page for the full service scope and FAQ.

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