Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 Atlanta, GA

Get started with RHEL 10 today! After a short briefing on RHEL 10 updates, you will get hands-on with several of the core new RHEL 10 features like: Building and managing image mode built images Working with the command-line assistant, an on-system AI driven assistant to help you manage your systems Implementing security standards with RHEL system roles, powered by Ansible. Of course, with RHEL 10 machines at your disposal, you can also explore the latest RHEL distribution with the topics interested to you as well!

Organizations are increasingly turning to AI for transformative business insights and task automation. This session offers a practical introduction to LLM-as-a-Service (LLMaaS), showing you how to build and manage custom Large Language Models (LLMs) to meet specific enterprise needs. These LLMs can be served for business insights as well as linked to other AI agents to perceive the world around them and complete tasks. We'll cover deploying LLMs securely within your private cloud, ensuring data security, scalability, and compliance. You'll get a clear overview of integrated services, access controls, and usage metrics for chargeback. We'll also explore practical, high-impact use cases like AI-powered code assistants for developers and agentic AI applications, demonstrating the immediate business value LLMaaS can deliver.

Join Red Hat for our Mission-Critical Automation Workshop, a dynamic hands-on experience designed to introduce participants to Ansible Automation Platform and to immerse you in the journey of a new automator joining a team, progressing from using automation for information gathering to maturing their automation journey and building responsive automation that prevents and mitigates outages, minimizes downtime, and ensures mission-critical workloads remain operational.

Discover how Global Payments transformed their container platform strategy by unifying disparate Kubernetes environments with Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (RHACM). This session explores their journey from managing multiple self-hosted Kubernetes flavors to embracing Red Hat OpenShift for streamlined operations and enhanced scalability. Learn about the challenges they faced, the value they saw in Red Hat OpenShift, and the impactful results of moving away from self-hosting. This inspiring customer story offers valuable insights for anyone navigating Kubernetes complexity or seeking a path to modernization with Red Hat solutions.

This session will delve into a novel approach that empowers customers to securely and efficiently customize open-source AI models using their private data, all while maximizing the utilization of their existing GPU infrastructure. We will explore how a service-oriented architecture can facilitate on-premise or secure cloud-based fine-tuning, ensuring data privacy and sovereignty. Furthermore, we will highlight the crucial role of model quantization in dramatically reducing model size and inference costs, making these powerful custom models practical for deployment in resource-constrained environments.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of platform engineering, success depends on knowing not just what to do, but what to avoid. In this session, we'll how Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite help your platform engineering and DevSecOps initiatives succeed, including: using Developer Hub, based on the upstream Backstage project, as a venue for developer and platform collaboration; configuring Red Hat OpenShift to best maintain performance; integrating security best practices with Trusted Software Supply Chain and Advanced Cluster Security; and best practices for maintaining and lifecycling templates and golden paths to ensure scalability and consistency. We'll share practical tips ensuring your platform engineering initiatives remain agile, efficient, and security-focused. 

AI success isn’t just about choosing the right model or deploying the latest technology. It’s about creating a clear, actionable path from bold ideas to measurable outcomes. In this hands-on interactive session, we’ll walk through a practical framework to take AI concepts from ideation to implementation, aligning your technical approach with business priorities every step of the way.

Have you wanted to take advantage of Red Hat Insights, but faced regulations that restrict data processing in Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console? Red Hat Insights advisor is now available on-premise as an installable component of Red Hat Satellite. In this hands-on lab, we’ll walk through setting up Insights advisor with your existing Satellite installation, allowing you to take advantage of recommendations that can improve the security, performance, and availability of your Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts. We'll explore the architectural design, provide details on data flows and processing, and provide the knowledge you'll need to make the most of Red Hat Insights in your on-premise environments.

Designed for developers and security engineers, this lab provides hands-on experience with the Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite integrated with Jenkins–demonstrating how Trusted Application Pipeline elevates Jenkins CI/CD workflows with advanced security. Participants will use tools like Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer, Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer, SBOMs, SLSA compliance, and sigstore for image signing to transition from non-secure to security-focused pipelines. The Red Hat Developer Hub will also be highlighted as a centralized developer portal, streamlining access to resources. Through practical exercises, attendees will learn to automate consistent security with GitOps, embedding security from code development to deployment without disrupting productivity. Attendees will leave with the skills and mindset to create a more secure software supply chain while preserving the familiar, powerful workflows of Jenkins. Key Takeaways: Provides a self-service portal to accelerate developer onboarding with Red Hat Developer Hub Ensuring security and efficiency in the SDLC with Red Hat Trusted Application Pipeline, Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer and Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer. Understanding comprehensive security for Kubernetes clusters with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (ACS). Support continuous integration and deployment with Jenkins and Red Hat Openshift Gitops Streamline the setup of development environments with Red Hat DevSpaces.

In this hands-on lab, you’ll learn how to use Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for essential administration and optimization practices. You’ll experience OpenShift Virtualization’s capabilities beyond initial deployment and how it supports efficient and reliable platform and VM management. After working through real-world scenarios, you’ll be ready to use OpenShift Virtualization not only to host VMs but also to operate and automate in a way that aligns with your organization’s evolving needs.

For the past ten years containers have changed the game for applications. Now with image mode for RHEL, we’re taking the same benefits, technology, and ecosystem around containers and extending it to infrastructure. At last year’s Summit we announced image mode & bootc as a technology preview and with the release of 9.6 & 10, we are excited to announce the general availability and full support. In this session, attendees will get a deep dive into the technology, and walk away with a strong understanding of how to build complete, immutable RHEL systems using bootable containers, and where to use these in their environments. As a bonus, we will also look into the future to see where development is headed. Try to contain yourself because this will be *the* session you don’t want to miss!

Salon 3-6

Complex hybrid cloud IT environments generate massive operational data, overwhelming traditional monitoring. AIOps platforms use machine learning to analyze this data, providing insights, but require action to realize full value, which is where automated remediation with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) comes in. AIOps detects anomalies and generates structured alerts that trigger Event-Driven Ansible. Ansible Rulebooks match these alerts to pre-defined remediation workflows, executing Ansible Playbooks to resolve issues. This integration shifts operations from reactive to proactive, reducing MTTR, minimizing error, and automating responses. By connecting AI insights to automation, it enables self-healing infrastructure, improving reliability and freeing engineers for innovation.

Ansible and Terraform are the de-facto standards for IT automation and infrastructure as code for a reason. And for modern enterprises, managing the full infrastructure lifecycle—from day 0 provisioning to day 1 configuration and complex day 2 operations—requires a unified strategy, not siloed tools. This session provides a blueprint for end-to-end orchestration. We’ll show you how to combine Terraform's Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strengths for day 0 builds with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's power to configure, manage, and orchestrate the rest of the application and service lifecycle. See it in action with demos on how Ansible Automation Platform and Terraform Enterprise work together to reduce complexity, improve risk posture, and manage the full infrastructure lifecycle.

Salon 3-6

Agentic AI promises to revolutionize enterprise operations by creating autonomous systems that perceive, decide, and act to achieve goals. These intelligent agents automate complex, multi-step tasks, driving efficiency and innovation. However, enterprises often struggle with complex workflow orchestration, ensuring reliability, and efficiently scaling deployments. This session will explore how Red Hat AI provides a robust, open hybrid platform to overcome these challenges and accelerate Agentic AI innovation. We'll demonstrate how its unified API experience and out-of-the-box agent frameworks streamline complex workflow assembly and facilitate seamless integration through support for Model Communication Protocol (MCP). Discover how Red Hat AI ensures governed, trustworthy agent deployment with integrated monitoring, and delivers scalable, cost-optimized infrastructure across hybrid cloud environments, empowering organizations to capture the full potential of Agentic AI.