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RECOMMENDED READING:
Hybrid Cloud and Kubernetes: A Guide to Successful Architecture (Red Hat eBook)
This hybrid mix of applications and infrastructure is the reality for most enterprise organizations today, and managing it all can be a major challenge.
IN THE NEWS:
CRN - 2021 Women of the Channel
This year, CRN honors over 1000 women, including Red Hatters, whose channel expertise and vision are deserving of recognition.
CHECK IT OUT:
SD Times - Red Hat announced Developer Sandbox and new solutions to help get started with Kubernetes
The new solution provides a private OpenShift environment in a shared, multi-tenant cluster that is pre-configured with a set of developer tools.
ON THE BLOG:
Red Hat OpenShift Certification extends support for Kubernetes-native technologies with Helm
With this certification, Red Hat partners can enable and certify their software solutions on OpenShift through either Operators or Helm charts.
GOOD READ:
RHEL for Edge: What's new in RHEL 8.4
With the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.4, we are excited to continue the momentum in bringing our customers an operating system experience aimed at simplifying and securing workloads outside the core data center.
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