Red Hat Summit 2022 began today and will continue through tomorrow. The two day, open-source event features expert speakers discussing the latest news and announcements within the community. The summit can be attended in person, virtually, and on demand and brings attendees technical presentations on the topics most relevant to their careers. Here are some … continue reading
Today at the Red Hat Summit, Red Hat announced an expansion to its 12 year partnership with Accenture. The companies will be working together to develop new solutions across four main areas. These include: Open hybrid cloud application and mainframe modernization Automation Edge computing Sovereign cloud For the first focus area, the companies will work … continue reading
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 has achieved a new certification that will make it a more appealing option for companies that are managing critical workloads in classified and sensitive deployments. It has earned a new Common Criteria Certification, which is a certification that assures that a product meets security criteria for a specific environment. According … continue reading
The new Red Hat OpenShift 4.10 release is based on Kubernetes 1.23 with the CRI-O 1.23 runtime and offers new enhancements and features for both developers and administrators. Among the 45 enhancements are the ability to change static network configurations after cluster deployment with enhanced networking metrics and debuggability. OpenShift also provides a way to … continue reading
Red Hat has announced new additions to OpenShift Platform Plus that will incorporate data services like software-defined storage into the platform. OpenShift Platform Plus is a hybrid cloud platform that provides a multicloud Kubernetes stack out of the box. This is being made possible through an integration with OpenShift Data Foundation, which is a data … continue reading
Red Hat announced that its Ansible Automation Platform is now available on Microsoft Azure. Red Hat believes this addition will give customers greater return on investment for automation by being able to leverage Azure services, such as compute, network, and storage. “By integrating open source automation technologies, such as Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on … continue reading
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 is now generally available. New additions and more flexible automation architectures will enable customers to onboard more easily. Automation mesh is a new addition that replaces isolated nodes that were featured in version 1.2. Now, the automation control plane and execution plane are fully decoupled. Users can run automation … continue reading
The general availability of Amazon EC2 R6i instances are designed for memory-intensive workloads. Like M6i and C6i instances, these new R6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, building blocks that can offload a lot of the traditional virtualization functions to dedicated, delivering high performance, high availability, and highly secure cloud instances. The new … continue reading
Red Hat has announced the latest version of its enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.5 adds new features that will make it easier for businesses to scale from datacenters and the cloud to edge environments. Updates include an expansion of Red Hat Insights, improvements to existing container management capabilities, and an easier … continue reading
The beta for the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now available. RHEL 9 Beta features many new enhancements, but according to Red Hat, there are fewer changes that will require IT operations professionals to learn new methods of doing things. “Familiar with RHEL 8? Then RHEL 9 Beta will help you … continue reading
Red Hat and Intel are extending their long-standing collaboration to bring Industry 4.0 transformation to smart manufacturing and energy. The companies are currently collaborating on edge processing for small form factors by combining Red Hat OpenShift application platforms and the breadth of the Intel NUC family of high-quality, reliable, and easy-to-use products to help create … continue reading
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 kicked off earlier this week, and the event has resulted in a number of Kubernetes and cloud-native companies announcing updates to their platforms. Here are a few highlights: GitLab Operator now available The GitLab Operator allows developers to run instances of GitLab on Kubernetes platforms, like Red Hat OpenShift. … continue reading