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:
SDxCentral - Red Hat Shrinks OpenShift for Device Edge
Red Hat unveiled a new Kubernetes-based edge device platform that took use case ideas from Lockheed Martin and ABB in stripping down its OpenShift container orchestration platform to better target resource-constrained edge locations.


CHECK IT OUT:
Lockheed Martin, Red Hat Collaborate to Advance Artificial Intelligence for Military Missions
Lockheed Martin and Red Hat today announced a collaboration to advance artificial intelligence (AI) innovation at the edge on Lockheed Martin military platforms.


ON THE BLOG:
Advancing the Next Phase of Container Development with Podman Desktop
Red Hat has been collaborating closely with the Podman community on the development and delivery of Podman Desktop, a new tool designed to help developers more easily interact with containers and pods running in Podman.


GREAT LISTEN:
Code Comments Podcast - Conversations with Experienced Technologists
Building great technology is rarely a solo job. In a new podcast, Burr Sutter and industry veterans discuss the challenges of getting tech from the napkin stage to deployment. Hear the compelling conversations with Red Hat partners about ambitious projects—and how none of us could build them alone.


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