The YugabyteDB Operator is now certified and available as a Beta release on Red Hat OpenShift, a leading enterprise Kubernetes platform. This certification enables customers to deploy YugabyteDB with confidence, backed by collaborative support between Red Hat and Yugabyte. The operator allows developers to run YugabyteDB clusters on OpenShift using cloud native practices, such as scaling and managing workloads using CI/CD pipelines. It provides Kubernetes native management capabilities, defines Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), handles lifecycle events, and manages YugabyteDB running in pods. To deploy a YugabyteDB cluster, customers can install the operator in their OpenShift environment and create a custom resource to define parameters such as replication factor, master pod count, and T-server pod count. The operator creates a new YBCluster CRD, statefulsets, and bootstraps necessary services for the database, resulting in a YugabyteDB cluster available within minutes.