Friday Five — August 9, 2019

According to Forrester's evaluation, Red Hat Ansible Automation excels at orchestration and integration with other types of automation. They also cite that "reference customers said they were replacing other tools mentioned in this Forrester Wave with Ansible and praised the solution's ability to bridge operations and development."

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 adds enhanced features for hybrid cloud deployments and containerized application development while retaining a focus on production stability.

Today, Red Hat dominates enterprise Linux. Tomorrow, it wants to rule the cloud. With IBM beside it, don't bet against it.

In a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA), Red Hat CTO Chris Wright dishes on open source and the future of Red Hat products and technologies with IBM.

There are thousands of virtual and physical devices that comprise business, consumer, and mobile services in a service provider's (SP) environment, and automation can help facilitate and accelerate the delivery of those services.