The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat® blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.


CHECK IT OUT:
The Konveyor project dials in on replatforming and refactoring for 2023
Evolving to match real world challenges, Konveyor’s extended mission is to create tools and practices aimed at modernizing and migrating applications to the hybrid cloud. The emphasis will be centered on replatforming and refactoring, with Konveyor’s technologies also evolving.


MARK YOUR CALENDAR:
Automation that keeps pace with your ideas: A live session featuring Forrester
Forrester's Naveen Chhabra will discuss current market challenges and The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure Automation Q1, 2023. In addition, Red Hat's Darren Orzechowski and Kaete Piccirilli will explore how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform sets the pace by addressing operational challenges, skills gaps, and budgetary pressures.


ON THE BLOG:
Transform your container workflow with Podman Desktop
The Podman Desktop community has been growing and steadily progressing over the past six months in preparation for the 1.0 release later this year. Recent releases have delivered improvements in areas like user experience, documentation, expanded support for developer tooling, and a number of new extensions that enable integration with third-party tools.
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IN THE NEWS:
siliconANGLE - Red Hat accelerates platform engineering as developer experience takes center stage
As Kubernetes enters its maturity phase, more emphasis is being placed on developer experience. theCUBE sits down with Red Hat's Natale Vinto and Kevin Dubois to discuss how Red Hat is making the lives of developers’ easier using innovations like Kubernetes and platform engineering.


GOOD READ:
FedTech Magazine - Why Agencies Largely Remain in the Pilot Phase of Zero Trust
IBM’s Katharyn White and Red Hat’s Michael Epley discuss the road to implementing zero trust. The security model remains a top federal priority, between the White House’s cybersecurity executive order, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s draft Zero Trust Maturity Model and the Office of Management and Budget’s federal zero-trust strategy.
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