Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 Bloomington, MN

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.

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.

There is no doubt that generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a generational technology with the power to transform every aspect of a business. In this strategy session, you’ll hear how Red Hat is focused on helping make AI more accessible, efficient, and cost effective while providing the freedom to develop, train, and deploy AI-enabled applications anywhere using Red Hat AI. We’ll also give you a sneak peek into some of the cool capabilities that will continue to address both generative and predictive AI use cases for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI and Red Hat OpenShift AI. Attend this session to learn how Red Hat AI accelerates the development and deployment of enterprise AI solutions across hybrid cloud environments, helping organizations unlock the true value of AI.

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.

We’ll discuss the challenges, successes, and best practices that enabled us to achieve seamless scalability, flexibility, and performance while maintaining a cohesive infrastructure.These three journeys will ensure your IT infrastructure is reliable and future-proof to enable innovation and agility. Topics include: Virtualization Modernization: Lessons from scaling to 20,000 VMs on OpenShift Virtualization; Optimizing your data center with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform: efficiently deliver business critical applications in a hybrid cloud environment; and Industrializing AI across the enterprise: explore well-governed AI use cases across the development lifecycle and into production.

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.

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.

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.

In an era of disruption, automators are united by common challenges—and by the mission-critical role they have in solving them. This session provides an exclusive look at how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform continues to evolve to meet the strategic needs of our customers. In this session, we’ll explore new platform features and capabilities that will help IT automation teams achieve more efficient, resilient, and connected IT operations at scale as they transform for the AI era. Explore the possibilities for streamlining infrastructure lifecycle management with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform + HashiCorp’s Terraform and Vault. Learn how Red Hat Ansible can help you navigate the shifting virtualization landscape with agnostic management of day-2 operations across any hypervisor, from VMware to OpenShift Virtualization. Discover how you can leverage Red Hat Ansible to streamline AI infrastructure delivery, unlock AIOps, and keep AI workloads compliant at scale. Because automation teams aren’t just supporting AI - they are enabling it.

With a decade of unparalleled success, serving more than 3,000 customers across diverse industries and hundreds of strategic partnerships, Red Hat OpenShift has established itself as a cornerstone of innovation and reliability while redefining container orchestration and application deployment across the hybrid cloud. Take a glimpse into the future of Red Hat OpenShift and see how we continue to innovate to meet the challenges of tomorrow, address emerging use cases, and deliver solutions that'll reshape your digital transformation. We'll look at customer use cases and industry trends; review pillars including the core container and Kubernetes engine, application development and deployment, and AI/ML workloads; and explore how to manage multiple clusters across the cloud and edge at scale. Join us as we unveil our vision for Red Hat OpenShift in 2025 and beyond, including: next-generation hosted control planes; breakthrough capabilities for AI workloads; the future of virtualization in a container-native world; and advanced security paradigms for the evolving threat landscape.

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.

American Family Insurance (Amfam) hosts thousands of operating system (OS) instances running across multiple datacenters, all of which requiring stable, consistent updates. In this session, we’ll share how Amfam used Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to build an end-to-end patching automation system, including the architecture, requirements, and deployment process, as well as a demonstration. Key topics include: the challenges of integrating multiple platforms to automate patch management in a complex hybrid environment; unifying ServiceNow change orders, dynamic tag-based inventories, observability capabilities, and more on a Red Hat OpenShift foundation; and the benefits of establishing a self-service system where teams can contribute to managing complexity at scale.