Red Hat Weekly News

As is a year-end tradition, several Red Hat-related blogs posted their top posts of 2021 lists, including Ansible.com, developers.redhat.com, and, of course the Red Hat blog. Hammer those links to find out which articles the Red Hat community was most interested in last year. Top stories include details about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2, a new no-cost RHEL for open source infrastructure, a comparison of distributed transaction patterns for microservices, and so much more.

But that was then, and this is now.

If you’re more interested in looking forward, you’ll want to read through the Red Hat 2022 Global Tech Outlook. This report compiles the results from surveying over 1,300 IT decision makers, including a mix of Red Hat customers and a broader industry panel. Significantly, the report found that skillset or talent gaps have been identified as the top barrier to digital transformation, and that AI/ML, edge and serverless computing top IT leaders’ priority lists in the year ahead. Learn more by downloading the full 2022 Global Tech Outlook report here.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform delivers on high ROI expectations

A recent IDC study—the business value of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform—showed a significant return on investment for organizations that deployed the platform, with improvements shown in IT infrastructure management, application development speed, and better IT security response times, among other things.

Red Hat Smart Management for SAP

One of the constant challenges that SAP Basis and operating system (OS) administrators face is to keep the hosts that run SAP workloads up to date and compliant. Red Hat Smart Management for SAP is about automating the whole update process for SAP hosts according to policies that can be defined by the administrators, saving time and frustration. Learn more in this article by Ricardo Garcia Cavero.

And, in case you missed it, here’s last week’s Red Hat Friday Five.

We see DevSecOps differently

Adopting and integrating DevSecOps practices early in the application development life cycle allows IT and security teams to tackle security challenges earlier rather than later. This makes security a continuous and holistic part of the development life cycle, ultimately reducing risk and allowing organizations to meet industry security standards for compliance. But how do you get there?

Introducing the hosted beta experience Red Hat Enterprise Linux Image Builder

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat Insights teams have launched a public beta of the Image Builder hosted service, a part of the Insights application suite which is included with the RHEL subscription. The Image Builder service simplifies and streamlines the process of assembling your own customized RHEL operating system images with the latest content and security updates for all of your hybrid cloud environments.

New reference architecture: Deploying Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1

With the release of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1, the team has also delivered the latest reference architecture, providing a step-by-step deployment procedure to install and configure a highly available Ansible Automation Platform environment from start to finish.

That’s it for us this week! We hope you are having a great first few days back after the break, and a gentle easing into the regular swing of things. Tune in each Tuesday to catch up on the latest news and announcements from Red Hat and the Red Hat community.

That’s it for us this week! We hope you are having a great first few days back after the break, and a gentle easing into the regular swing of things. Tune in each Tuesday to catch up on the latest news and announcements from Red Hat and the Red Hat community.