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::
Fortune - Red Hat’s Retiring CFO on her Advice for Younger Professionals
On Laurie Krebs' last official day as CFO of Red Hat she posted a note expressing her thoughts about retiring. It resulted in an outpouring of support from colleagues who said she paved the way for women and was a mentor and supportive leader.


CHECK IT OUT:
Red Hat Adds Common Criteria Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Independent security certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 helps to extend the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform as a trusted foundation for computing across the open hybrid cloud, from traditional to cloud-native workloads.


WATCH THE VIDEO:
In the Clouds - Edge Computing in Space
In this episode of In the Clouds, Red Hat shifts the conversation into orbit as IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO Space Tech Naeem Altaf joins host Stu Miniman to tell us how together with NASA, cloud and edge computing services and technologies are being used to solve problems on the International Space Station.


ON THE BLOG:
Automating Red Hat Identity Management installation
All system admins should be lazy. Not as in not doing their job, but as in doing it as efficiently as possible. Why do you have to do things manually when you can automate them? The more complicated a task, the more reason for automation.


LEARN MORE:
The Register - Containers May be More Effective than VMs for Hybrid Apps – Gartner
Containers may already be your best bet when building and running applications that run in hybrid environments, according to Arun Chandrasekaran, a distinguished vice president and analyst at Gartner.
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