Red Hat Service Interconnect Supported Configurations

Version 2.1 released September, 2025

See the Service Interconnect documentation for earlier supported configurations.

Primary support

CLI

Kubernetes sites

Service Interconnect is supported on all versions of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform that are in Full or Maintenance support. For more information, see the following articles:

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Life Cycle Policy
• Support of Red Hat Middleware products and components on Red Hat OpenShift

Support for Non-OpenShift distributions of Kubernetes requires Kubernetes version 1.28 or later.

Ingress types

• LoadBalancer
• OpenShift Routes (supported only on OpenShift)

Other ingress types fall under commercially reasonable support.

Operator

The operator is supported with OpenShift 4.x only.

Podman sites

Router

For use in Kubernetes sites and as a gateway for containers or machines.

Note: The Skupper router is not supported for standalone use as a messaging router.

Commercially reasonable support

CLI

Kubernetes sites

Distributions

Red Hat will provide assistance running Service Interconnect on any CNCF-certified distribution of Kubernetes. Note, however, that our testing is done on OpenShift.

https://www.cncf.io/certification/software-conformance/#logos

Ingress types

• Gateway
• Contour
• Nginx (This requires configuration for TLS passthrough.)
• NodePort

Podman sites

Service Interconnect requires Podman version 4 or later.

Upgrades

• Red Hat supports upgrades from one downstream minor version to the next, with no jumps.
• While Red Hat aims to have compatibility across minor versions, Red Hat recommends upgrading all sites to the latest version.

Disconnected operation

Red Hat supports deployment of Service Interconnect in disconnected environments.