Red Hat Service Interconnect Supported Configurations

Version 2.2 released June, 2026

See the Service Interconnect documentation for earlier supported configurations.

Primary support

RHEL CLI (using dnf)

Kubernetes sites (primary support)

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 (primary support)

• LoadBalancer
• OpenShift Routes (supported only on OpenShift)

Other ingress types fall under commercially reasonable support.

RHEL Podman sites (primary support)

Router (primary support)

For use in Kubernetes and local system sites.

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

Commercially reasonable support

CLI (binary download)

Kubernetes distributions (commercially reasonable support)

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

Kubernetes Ingress types (commercially reasonable support)

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

Podman sites (commercially reasonable support)

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.