Red Hat Weekly News

This week Red Hat announced the availability of Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure. This builds on Red Hat’s standard for hybrid cloud automation, and is a collaboration between Red Hat and Microsoft to give customers flexibility in how they use automation to deliver applications anywhere, without additional overhead and complexity.

Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure will be offered as a managed application that Microsoft Azure users can deploy directly from the Azure Marketplace portal. It is currently available as a private preview, and customers who are interested in taking a look can sign up now.

The Red Hat blog also published an introduction to Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform covering six key features, including new Top Reports, the Automation Savings Planner and Automation Calculator, Advisor and Remediation, Drift and Policies. There’s also an on-demand webinar available: Red Hat Convergence: Gain Insights into your Ansible Automation Platform deployment.

If you’re just getting started with automation, the Enterprisers Project published an article outlining 6 key elements for an automation strategy, based on real-world experience and advice from IT leaders.

Finally, over on the Ansible blog, Craig Brandt introduces the new Ansible feature: automation mesh. This is part of the recent Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 release that was announced earlier this month.

How customers and partners are meeting growing market demands with Red Hat OpenShift

This month our customer success spotlights demonstrate how Red Hat helps customers focus on two critical components of success: helping their people learn new skills and implementing new technology. This article talks about how Red Hat OpenShift and Online Partner Enablement Network have helped customers and partners modernize their environments to keep up with growing market demands.

Edge computing benefits and use cases

Edge computing is a distributed computing model in which data is captured, stored, processed and analyzed at or near the physical location where it is created. By pushing computing out closer to these locations, edge computing provides users with the benefit of faster, more reliable services while companies benefit from the flexibility and scalability of hybrid cloud computing.

20 years of Red Hat Product Security: The rise of branded exploits (Part 2)

The Red Hat Product Security team recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. Last week we looked at the team’s history from 2001 through 2013. This week we look at key events from 2014 and the rise of branded vulnerabilities through the present, and even take a quick glimpse at what the future may hold.

And, in case you missed it, here’s last week’s Red Hat Friday Five.

What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Container Tools?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.5 is a major update that includes a range of new container tools and features. Scott McCarty, technical product manager for the container subsystem team, covers all the details in this post.

Automating execution environment image builds with GitHub Actions

Ansible Automation Platform 2 leverages containers — called automation execution environments -- to bundle collection, Python and platform dependencies to provide predictable, self-contained automation spaces that can be easily distributed across an organization. In this video, Colin McNaughton walks through a demo scenario that shows you how to get started.

Gathering security data using the Red Hat Security Data API

This article covers how the Security Data API can be used to programmatically address real-world security use cases and concerns. The selected use cases are based on questions which were sent to the Red Hat Product Security team in recent months, and each of these examples can be easily modified to address your own needs.

And that’s a wrap, folks. 2021 is done and dusted for RWN and (mostly) the Red Hat blog. We have a handful of stories scheduled for publication, but by and large we’re just tidying things up in preparation for the winter break.

We wish all of our readers a safe and happy holiday, and a very happy new year. 2022 here we come!

And that’s a wrap, folks. 2021 is done and dusted for RWN and (mostly) the Red Hat blog. We have a handful of stories scheduled for publication, but by and large we’re just tidying things up in preparation for the winter break.

We wish all of our readers a safe and happy holiday, and a very happy new year. 2022 here we come!