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:
Amazon and Red Hat Announce the General Availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)
Now generally available, Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is a new managed service available via the AWS Console that makes it easier for Red Hat OpenShift customers to build, scale, and manage containerized applications on AWS.


NEW ON THE BLOG:
Red Hat delivers new change data capture capabilities and enhances user experience with latest Red Hat Integration release
The latest release of Red Hat Integration brings several enhancements, including new data capture capabilities and improved user experience, to strengthen our customers' ability to respond faster, more efficiently and more intelligently to the world around them.


WATCH THE CONVERSATION:
Open Source Stories: Common Connections
Our Common Connections series is back, with a fascinating conversation about the future of robotics. Leila Takayama and Chris Nicholson, subjects of two previous Open Source Stories films, return to explore how humans and robots can fulfill their shared potential.


GOOD READ:
InfoWorld - Containers need standard operating environments too
Red Hat's Scott McCarty, Principal Product Manager for Containers, explains how a standard operating system can reduce the time it takes to deploy, configure, maintain, support and manage containerized applications.


CHECK IT OUT:
Announcing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Certified Ansible Collection
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) System Roles Collection is now certified with Ansible Automation Platform and available for organizations through Ansible Automation Hub. For customers with both RHEL and Ansible Automation Platform subscriptions, this means that the automation platform gains new certified content to predictably drive the configuration of RHEL.
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