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:
TechTarget Microscope - AI, automation and edge driving Red Hat channel
Red Hat is looking to work closely with its channel to co-create opportunities, particularly around artificial intelligence (AI), automation and edge, as it continues to build on the momentum it’s generated with partners.

ON THE BLOG:
CentOS Linux is going End of Life, What does that mean for me?
For almost 20 years, CentOS Linux has been, for many, the choice for server workloads. However, that's about to change when CentOS Linux 7, the last live version of the Community ENTerprise Operating System, is going end of life. Red Hat has a lot of resources focusing on the technical means of moving from CentOS Linux to RHEL, but this blog will discuss this transition from a programmatic view.

CHECK IT OUT:
TechCrunch - Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Gunnar Hellekson, Red Hat’s VP and GM for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, shares his take on Red Hat's decision to make CentOS Stream the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code releases.

WATCH THE VIDEO:
In The Clouds (E25) | Let's Chat Cloud and AI (ft. Michael Ferris)
In this episode of In the Clouds, join your host Stu Miniman as he has a candid conversation with Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Red Hat, Michael Ferris on all things Cloud and AI.

LISTEN IN:
Software Engineering Daily - Trusted Software Supply Chain with Vincent Danen
Available as a cloud service, Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain provides a DevSecOps framework to create applications more securely. Vincent Danen, VP of Product Security at Red Hat, discusses how the Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain product allows enterprises to adopt DevSecOps practices successfully, safely consume open-source code and third-party dependencies, and build security into the software development life cycle.
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