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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Red Hat Pushes the Edge Further with Updates to Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes

Red Hat announced Red Hat OpenShift 4.9 and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.4, both designed to drive consistency of the open hybrid cloud to the furthest reaches of the enterprise network. The new capabilities help organizations scale existing development, deployment and management workflows to meet increased interest in information and services.

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Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 Now Generally Available

The latest version of Red Hat’s highly-scalable and agile cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2, is now available. It delivers tighter integration with Red Hat OpenShift, so customers can run both new and traditional applications in parallel with improved network capacity, security features, storage, performance and efficiency.

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Red Hat Enhances Developer Experience on OpenShift with Latest Portfolio Updates

With updates to tools like Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines, Red Hat OpenShift GitOps and the Red Hat build of Quarkus — as well as an expanding roster of training resources available on Kube By Example — Kubernetes developers can more easily build, automate and deploy cloud-native applications for hybrid multicloud environments.

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Kube by Example expands training curriculum with new learning paths for Kubernetes developers

Red Hat is diligently working to establish Kube by Example as the premier destination for developers and operators to sharpen their Kubernetes skills in a hands-on environment, by expanding the curriculum, enhancing the learning experience and engaging even more IT professionals. Two new learning paths are available today, with a third coming soon.

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IN THE NEWS:

SDxCentral - Red Hat OpenShift, ACM Updates Flex Kubernetes at the Edge

Updates to Red Hat’s Kubernetes-focused platforms provide organizations with more flexibility in managing their container-based infrastructure in edge locations. Red Hat OpenShift 4.9 now supports a single-node architecture targeted at edge environments, while Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.4 includes full management of the application portfolio, and compatibility across single node OpenShift, 3-node clusters and remote worker nodes.

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