Red Hat, the IBM-owned cloud software firm, is staking a claim to be the industry’s top Kubernetes platform provider. That is taking it increasingly deeply into 5G networks and into media segments like video. French video compression provider Ateme announced last week that its live video encoding and delivery suite had been validated for running cloud-native network functions (CNFs) on Red Hat OpenShift. Any service provider using any cloud with Red Hat OpenShift can now deploy Ateme’s complete suite, including encoders and content delivery networks, following testing across public and private on-premise cloud environments. This shows how the OpenShift-managed Kubernetes platform is starting to expand not just to 5G networks but the services they support. It is no coincidence that…