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.


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Announcing AnsibleFest at Red Hat Summit 2023
We’re excited to announce that we’re bringing the passion for automation to a bigger, open source stage at Red Hat Summit.


IN THE NEWS:
Azure Red Hat OpenShift for Microsoft Azure Government Now Available
With Azure Red Hat OpenShift for Azure Government, agencies can now build and deploy applications in a dedicated cloud tailored to address stringent federal security and compliance requirements for highly-sensitive workloads.


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Red Hat Updates Certification Exam Retake Policy to Broaden the Red Hat Certified Community
The updated Red Hat Training and Certification exam retake policy will help organizations fill skill gaps from Red Hat’s growing community of qualified certified professionals.


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Customer success stories: How Red Hat products and services enable innovation in telecommunications and IT organizations
Learn how Brightly and HT Eronet are using Red Hat technologies and services to accelerate innovation while improving efficiency.


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TechCrunch - New Red Hat partnerships with SAP and Oracle could bode well for owner IBM
TechCrunch breaks down Red Hat's new partnerships with Oracle and SAP.
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