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:
Red Hat Boosts Performance and Scale for Cloud-Native Application Development with Latest Portfolio Updates
Red Hat unveils updates across its portfolio of developer tools designed to help organizations build and deliver applications faster and more consistently across Kubernetes-based hybrid and multicloud environments.


GOOD READ:
SearchITOperations - Red Hat CEO on IBM, VMware and hybrid cloud coopetition
SearchITOperations caught up with Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier at Red Hat Summit to discuss how IBM has affected Red Hat.


IN THE NEWS:
TechCrunch - Red Hat open sources StackRox, the Kubernetes security platform it acquired last year
Built to encourage adoption of DevSecOps principles, the StackRox project helps to address common cloud-native security challenges, including visibility, vulnerability management, configuration management, network segmentation, compliance, threat detection and incident response, as well as risk profiling.


ON THE BLOG:
The State of Kubernetes Security in 2022
Red Hat surveyed more than 300 DevOps, engineering and security professionals, to find out how companies are adopting containers and Kubernetes while still balancing the security of these environments.


RECOMMENDED READING:
CRN - Open Hybrid Cloud Will Be Defined By Hardware Innovation At The Edge
Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier told the audience at this year’s Red Hat Summit event that open-source technologies such as Linux and Kubernetes are the backbone of technology innovation and will stay in a remote working world.
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