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Red Hat has introduced Red Hat Developer Lightspeed, a generative AI portfolio integrated into its developer tools to support application modernisation and cloud-native services development.
Red Hat Developer Lightspeed is aimed at providing developers with intelligent, context-aware assistance directly in their workflow. The solution is designed to reduce the amount of time spent switching between tasks and tools, improving productivity and aiding in both coding and non-coding activities throughout the software development lifecycle.
Key features
The new offering integrates with both Red Hat Developer Hub and the migration toolkit for applications, providing varying AI-powered functionalities. In Red Hat Developer Hub, Developer Lightspeed acts as a virtual assistant to aid developers with non-coding work. Through a chat-based interface within the console, the tool assists with exploring application designs, drafting technical documentation, generating test plans, and offering troubleshooting support.
The AI within the hub is designed to enable a “bring your own model” approach. This allows development teams to use their preferred public or private large language models, making it possible to tailor performance, cost, and privacy settings according to organisational policies.
For coding tasks, Red Hat Developer Lightspeed is also available as an extension within the migration toolkit for applications, which automates source code refactoring processes directly in developers’ integrated development environments. This assistant is engineered to recognise migration challenges and offer contextually relevant suggestions, learning from each completed migration to refine its solution recommendations for future projects.
MTA 8 release and automation
The newly released version 8 of the migration toolkit for applications introduces automation for replatforming workloads onto Red Hat OpenShift. The first supported workflow focuses on migrations from Cloud Foundry to OpenShift. By automating the generation of deployment artifacts, MTA 8 aims to reduce manual intervention and human error, potentially increasing the return on investment for organisations engaging in application modernisation.
These capabilities are designed to work together so that developers can combine automated application replatforming with AI-generated code recommendations for more comprehensive modernisation initiatives.
Market context
Red Hat’s announcement comes as organisations seek more tailored, trustworthy, and robust AI assistants for domain-specific challenges rather than simply adopting generic generative AI models. Integrating AI directly into established workflows is seen by the company as a means of boosting reliability and operational compliance while making it easier to bring updated and new applications to market.
Availability details
Red Hat Developer Lightspeed in the Red Hat Developer Hub is currently in a developer preview phase for customers with Red Hat Developer Hub or Advanced Developer Suite subscriptions. The integration with migration toolkit for applications is now generally available to Advanced Developer Suite subscribers.
Official statement
The statement above was provided by James Labocki, Senior Director, Product Management at Red Hat.
Red Hat Developer Lightspeed portfolio is intended to provide developers with supportive, context-sensitive assistance, addressing both practical technical requirements and broader business needs for modernising and deploying cloud-native applications.
