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Last month, we launched Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6, and introduced several new features including an automation dashboard, a self-service automation portal, and the Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant. We hosted a follow-up webinar, What’s new with Ansible Automation Platform 2.6, during which we received some great questions from the audience about how to install, migrate, and upgrade to the latest version. To help you prepare for and navigate the Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 release, we've compiled the top questions and their answers.Installations, upgrades, and migrat

As organizations shift from reactive automation to proactive and intelligence-driven operations, Event-Driven Ansible continues to gain momentum. By combining real-time system insights from Red Hat Lightspeed (formerly Red Hat Insights) with Event-Driven Ansible rulebooks, teams can automatically respond to security risks, configuration changes, compliance findings, and operational anomalies, without waiting for human intervention. With Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6, we introduced a small but meaningful enhancement that strengthens trust and observability in automated operations. Any

In this October roundup, we cut through the noise to focus on the essential technical blueprints and policy foundations required to succeed. These articles, from key platform updates and critical security integrations to the future of open source legality, represent the core strategic reading for Q4. We highlight how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 streamlines operations, how Red Hat AI 3 and its intelligent control plane transform GPU infrastructure, and how our strategic partnership with NVIDIA simplifies the AI software stack. This is the quarter for planning that prepares your orga

Red Hat Lightspeed (formerly Red Hat Insights) has long helped operations teams detect risks, open tickets, and share findings with the right tools, connecting proactive intelligence to everyday workflows.Much has changed, not only in Red Hat Lightspeed itself, but also in how organizations are using it. Across industries, teams have built custom dashboards, reporting portals, and IT service management (ITSM) integrations powered by the Red Hat Lightspeed API. Others have connected Red Hat Lightspeed data into continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, monitoring environments, and

As organizations continue to accelerate digital transformation in the cloud, customers are looking for ways to enhance safeguards for sensitive workloads, especially those in highly regulated industries. As such, confidential computing has become an increasingly prominent way to protect workloads by providing an isolated, hardware-encrypted environment based on a zero-trust security model. To help address this need, we are pleased to announce the general availability of confidential containers on Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift, expected to be delivered in the coming weeks. This feature give

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.2. This release includes the general availability of Istio’s ambient mode—a new way of deploying service mesh without sidecars that significantly lowers the resource costs of using service mesh. This provides a low overhead solution for zero trust networking with lightweight pod-to-pod mTLS encryption and authorization policies based on workload identities, with the ability to add more advanced features as required.Based on the Istio, Envoy, and Kiali projects, this release updates the version of Istio

We’ve been dedicated to advancing Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes in line with the rapid evolution of Kubernetes security. With version 4.9, we’re introducing key integrations and updates designed to help streamline your workflows. To that end, we’ve improved our ability to integrate with other tools and services, enhanced visibility into operations, and begun the work of bringing virtual machines (VMs) into our scope of reporting and scanning. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Integration with ServiceNowA significant highlight of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.9 is

The software supply chain has evolved dramatically in recent years. Today's applications integrate countless components—from open source libraries and container images to AI models and training datasets. Each element represents a potential security risk that organizations must understand, verify, and continuously monitor. As supply chain attacks increase in frequency and sophistication, enterprises need comprehensive solutions that provide both artifact integrity and deep visibility into their software dependencies.Red Hat's latest releases of Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.3 and Red Hat

Are you excited to try out post-quantum cryptography in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), but you haven't yet upgraded to RHEL 10? Our efforts to ensure that you're ready to make the switch, and to prepare your organization for "Q-Day", now start with RHEL 9.7. By getting started now, you can proactively begin strengthening your security posture and preparing for a seamless transition to RHEL 10.RHEL 9 was released in 2022 and was an important step forward from a security perspective. It was the first version of RHEL that received FIPS 140-3 certification, matching current security requirement

The age of quantum computing is on the horizon, and with its immense processing power comes a significant threat to the cryptographic foundations of our digital world. In this article, we'll explore the emerging support for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) in Red Hat OpenShift 4.20, focusing on how it enhances the core components of the Kubernetes control plane: the apiserver, kubelet, scheduler, and controller-manager. Missing is etcd, using an older version of Go.The quantum threatToday's widely used public-key cryptosystems, such as RSA and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), form the foundat