Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 Detroit, MI

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; and implementing security standards with RHEL system roles, powered by Ansible.

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.

Migrating to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is just the start; efficient day 2 management is key to long-term success. This Red Hat-led session shows how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform streamlines migrations (e.g., from VMware) and empowers you to master day 2 operations for your virtual machines (VMs) at scale. After briefly covering automated migration preparation, we’ll dive into crucial Day 2 operations. Learn how Ansible Automation Platform helps you: automate OpenShift Virtualization platform configuration, health checks, and upgrades; master the full VM lifecycle: provisioning, modifications, snapshots, and decommissioning; enforce consistent configurations, security policies, and compliance across your VMs; and integrate with your ecosystem for monitoring, reporting, and advanced operational workflows. Join us to build a comprehensive automation strategy for robust, efficient, and scalable day 2 management of virtualized workloads on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.

Venetian Ballroom

This session will explore the transformative impact of Image Mode for RHEL, drawing parallels to the innovative spirit behind the Apollo Guidance Computer. We will delve into the intricacies of Image Mode, examining its operational lifecycle and demonstrating how it fundamentally alters the landscape of Linux system construction and management.

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.

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.

Deploying large language models (LLMs) in production is challenging—models are large, latency is high, and costs can quickly spiral. In this session, we’ll explore how to make LLMs deployable using virtual large language models (vLLMs), model compression, and task tuning—without sacrificing accuracy. We’ll also introduce Red Hat AI Inference Server, the latest addition to Red Hat AI, that enables faster, more cost-efficient inference while helping reduce GPU footprint and operational complexity- simplifying the deployment and scaling of LLM inference across hybrid cloud environments.

Venetian Ballroom

In this deep dive roadmap session, the RHEL team will unveil ambitious new features that will ignite the use of large language models, improve productivity and accessibility with new RHEL Lightspeed assistive technology features, and improve testing and deployment of the operating system as a container. Harnessing the power of post-quantum cryptography and trusted computing, you’ll be able to boldly fortify your defense against emerging security threats, ensuring that sensitive data remains impervious to the challenges posed by both current and future adversaries. Over the last 25 years, Linux has transformed from a niche operating system favored by tech enthusiasts and developers into a mainstream powerhouse with a vast ecosystem of applications, from embedded systems and supercomputers to large-scale data centers, revolutionizing how organizations approach technology with an emphasis on collaboration and innovation. This evolution has changed the demands on RHEL, and the professionals who manage it. The needs have grown increasingly complex over the years, driven by diverse use cases, security regulations, expanding hardware architectures, and innovation in the cloud. Successful deployments of RHEL have become a complex dance between a network of experts including security, performance, network, and storage. Join us to better understand how RHEL 10 helps you and your team with tough OS planning problems, beefs up security and provides the foundation for running AI workloads.