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:
OpenShift and the NSA-CISA ‘Kubernetes Hardening Guidance’
Red Hat applauds the recent release of Kubernetes hardening guidance from the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) to improve the nation’s cybersecurity through their collaborative efforts.


GOOD READ:
Building an Adaptable 5G Core on an Open Source Container Platform
This post covers how to architect an open 5G Core solution with cloud-native technologies, focusing on an on-premise, stand-alone deployment approach.


ON THE BLOG:
Transform Your IT Operations with Red Hat Insights
At Red Hat Summit this year, we shared some of our recommendations to help you better align these different domains within your organization. In this post, we’ll cover what you might have missed at Summit and share how Red Hat Insights can support these efforts.


IN THE NEWS:
Built In - Microservices Can Save You Time and Money — If Used Correctly
Back in 2009, Netflix was growing quickly and running into problems with scaling, so its developers decided to try moving the codebase onto separate servers on the cloud. That’s how the company pioneered the use of microservice architecture, when “microservices” wasn’t even a term yet.


LISTEN TO THE PODCAST:
Compiler - What Can Video Games Teach Us About Edge Computing?
In this episode of Compiler, we explore what edge computing could mean for people who enjoy video games, and what this form of entertainment could teach us about the technology.
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