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.


IN THE NEWS:
Red Hat Brings Industry-Leading Ansible Automation Platform to Microsoft
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure delivers a powerful solution that provides customers flexibility in how they adopt automation to deliver any application, anywhere, without additional overhead or complexity.


ON THE BLOG:
How customers and partners are meeting growing market demands with Red Hat OpenShift and learning resources
This month our customer success spotlights, which span from Europe to Southeast Asia, demonstrate how Red Hat helps customers and partners focus on two critical components of success: helping their people learn new skills and implementing new technology.


RECOMMENDED READING:
Silicon Republic - Why culture matters when implementing new technology
Red Hat’s Michael Browne, senior manager of Red Hat Consulting in the UK and Ireland, discusses the importance of a digital-first culture when it comes to bringing new technology into a business.


WATCH NOW:
TechStrong TV - Service Mesh with Mark Cheshire, Red Hat
Mark Cheshire, director of product for application services at Red Hat, explains why IT organizations will need a service mesh to manage APIs.


GOOD READ:
Kubernetes and OpenShift: The best of 2021
2021 was a big year in the world of Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. Discover what tutorials, articles and learning resources were most popular with developers this year, featuring serverless, Apache Kafka, OpenShift 4.8, and more.
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