Friday Five — August 28, 2026

28 agosto 20261 minuti (tempo di lettura)

Streamlining container security: Red Hat Hardened Images now supported in AWS InspectorScan API and ECR Basic scanning

AWS InspectorScan API and ECR Basic scanning now support Red Hat Hardened Images. This integration helps software security and development teams reduce vulnerability alerts, verify software supply chain integrity, and streamline compliance across hybrid cloud workflows using enterprise open source container images. Learn more

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Unify IT workflows at scale with the new automation orchestrator for Ansible Automation Platform

Red Hat announced general availability of the automation orchestrator add-on for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7. The composable canvas allows IT teams to weave existing job templates with logic nodes, event-driven triggers, and AI agent recommendations into complex operations workflows without changing established automations. Learn more

Open telco AI: Training a model for an industry

Red Hat collaborated with AT&T, AMD, Dell, Microsoft, and GSMA to launch OTel 2.0, a domain-specific AI model for telecommunications. Using Red Hat's open source SDG Hub, the project converts technical standards into high-quality synthetic training data, creating a practical blueprint for carrier-grade AI scaling. Learn more

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Increasing hardware costs? Get more from your VM estate with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Ahead of the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Reception at VMware Explore in Las Vegas (register here), learn how Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization can help you recover capacity and improve efficiency in your virtualization estate, facing hardware budget constraints and memory costs. Discover the three layers of efficiency built into the platform. Learn more

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Who really built that? Supply-chain provenance for AI agent identity

Close the trust gap with build-time agent supply-chain provenance. Learn how SPIRE plus Sigstore form the foundation for trustworthy agents. Learn more

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Red Hat Corporate Communications

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies.

Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.