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There are many reasons you might be running a virtual machine (VM) at your organization, and you're probably also using or planning to use containers at the same time. Whether you're looking to migrate away from your current virtualization platform or you're just looking for a unified platform for both VMs and containers, Red Hat OpenShift is a centralized control center for all the services you provide to your users. Here's how to get started with OpenShift Virtualization, a feature of Red Hat OpenShift.Install OpenShift and virtualization operatorsTo use OpenShift Virtualization, you must ha

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is a fully managed application platform that offers a more seamless experience for building, deploying, and scaling applications. For machine learning (ML) workloads, ROSA now supports On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCR) and Capacity Blocks for ML, allowing cloud architects and platform administrators to strategically utilize their existing AWS purchases to help deliver uninterrupted access to essential compute infrastructure. Today, ROSA is available in over 30 regions and supports over 600 instance types, allowing customers to run diverse workloads

Rising virtualization costs, licensing constraints, and operational complexity are driving teams to evaluate more flexible and cost-effective paths to the cloud. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, combined with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), supports hardware overcommit in the cloud, allowing customers to run more virtual machines (VMs) on fewer cloud resources. By aligning resource consumption more closely to actual usage patterns, organizations can significantly reduce compute costs. This provides a practical way to consolidate VM footprints and maximize the value of cloud investmen

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

Confidential computing is needed to protect sensitive data not only when it is stored or transmitted, but also while it is actively being processed in memory - traditionally the most vulnerable phase. In this article, I demonstrate how to implement a secure runtime environment using AWS Nitro Enclaves for applications on EC2 instances running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6+ (RHEL).To fully understand the concepts, use cases, and justifications for confidential computing, read our previous articles. The hardware used to provide secure communication and certification is based on AWS Nitro architec

As organizations race to productionize large language model (LLM) workloads, two powerful open-source projects have emerged to tackle the complexity of inference at scale: vLLM and llm-d.Are llm-d and vLLM on the same track, or are they steering toward different finishing lines?vLLM: The High-Performance Inference EnginevLLM is an enterprise open-source based inference engine for LLMs. Its performance edge comes from innovations like:PagedAttention, which enables efficient KV cache managementSpeculative decoding supportTensor parallelism (TP) and multi-model supportIntegration with Hugging Fac

Red Hat Research Quarterly - “It’s the wild frontier”: Security, agentic AI, and open source Luke Hinds and Ryan Cook discuss the urgent need to develop security in AI, the importance of model provenance and transparency, the essential role of the open source community, and adapting authorization protocols for AI agents. Learn more Alliander modernises its electricity grid with Red Hat for long-term reliability in balance with rapid innovationAlliander, a Dutch grid operator, modernized its electricity network by decoupling short-lifecycle control software from long-lasting hardware us

Sovereignty concerns are the greatest barrier to cloud adoption for large enterprises across EMEA, as cited by 63% of respondents to a Red Hat survey of over 900 IT managers, directors and AI engineers across nine countries. Over two-thirds (68%) of organisations have identified sovereignty as a top IT priority for the next 18 months, with that figure rising to 80% in Germany, where it ranks as the number one strategic focus.The importance of sovereignty stems from a convergence of rising operational issues, such as supply chain instability and the threat posed by cyber attacks, and frequently

In industrial environments, the drive toward smart manufacturing means blending the worlds of operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT). To this point, these worlds have existed in silos—OT managing the physical, real-time control of machinery, and IT focusing on data, security, and enterprise efficiency.But today, the industrial edge depends on this convergence. This unification demands a reliable platform that provides low latency as well as predictable latency—what we call deterministic performance. Determinism means that a high-priority task, like motion control or

Technology is the fundamental foundation of modern business and the catalyst for career advancement. While students seek skills that inspire innovation and leadership, it's the educator who specializes in making the transformation possible. A great educator acts as a dedicated mentor, and doesn't just teach theoretical concepts but actively unlocks potential in the next generation.The path to IT leadership is rarely linear, especially when traditional academic curriculum struggles to maintain pace with rapidly evolving industry practices. A significant gap often exists between classroom knowle

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

Picture this: You're working late to troubleshoot a production issue and an AI assistant suggests a fix in seconds. Problem solved, right? Not quite. While it seems like it should be easy to use AI assistance, where do you start? What's your prompt? How do you find the issue within the system? AI tools and other large language models are transforming our daily workflows, helping with everything from debugging scripts to generating boilerplate code in seconds, but you still have to know how (and when) to use them.This raises a valid question for many IT practitioners—with so much knowledge at

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

Data Processing Units (DPUs) represent a significant evolution in datacenter architecture. By offloading infrastructure tasks like networking, security, and storage from the main CPU, they promise to unlock new levels of cloud capabilities. Red Hat OpenShift 4.20 delivers a major breakthrough in solving the primary challenge of DPU adoption: vendor lock-in.This new capability provides unified, vendor-agnostic support for different DPUs, all within a single cluster. This is the result of our focused, standards-based strategy. We began this journey by introducing tech preview support for the fir

AI has fundamentally disrupted the predictable rhythm of technology progression, forcing enterprises into an era of relentless, chaotic innovation. As a result, relying on resiliency—the ability to bounce back from disruption—is no longer enough. Organizations must focus on developing both adaptability and durability.AI is the ultimate stress test. The technology itself is not the greatest barrier—adopting and deploying AI exposes existing weaknesses in an organization's cultural, strategic, and technological foundations. Successfully implementing AI at scale demands building an enterpri

If the platform team vanished tomorrow, what would developers miss: The tools, or the feeling that getting work done was straightforward and safe? Many organisations run platforms that look healthy: Uptime holds, pipelines run, dashboards glow green. Yet delivery still drags, tickets stack up, teams build side‑doors around "the system." Wins exist, but they're invisible. The problem isn’t reliability, it's the experience of shipping. The answer is a practical shift: Treat the platform like a product that enables people. Ship changes like product teams do, design one clear delivery path, an

Telecommunication service providers face the challenge of maximizing return on investment (ROI) on massive 5G investments. Efficient infrastructure deployment is particularly difficult in areas with real-time demand fluctuations, such as stadiums and tourist spots. One key challenge lies in comprehending usage patterns and connectivity performance from the end-user's perspective. A new paradigm is emerging: Customer and AI-driven network investments. This paradigm is being realized as a TM Forum catalyst project to build an AI-driven platform for network investments. Imagine every customer's d

Techaisle - Red Hat’s AI Platform Play: From "Any App" to "Any Model, Any Hardware, Any Cloud"Red Hat's AI 3 strategy aims to be the "Linux of enterprise AI," offering an open, standardized platform to solve the complexity and cost of AI adoption by connecting any model, any hardware, any cloud. Learn more Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird to Accelerate Cloud-Native Development and “Zero-CVE” StrategiesProject Hummingbird is an early access program providing minimal, hardened container images for subscription customers. The goal is to accelerate cloud-native development by offerin

The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is witnessing an unprecedented surge in demand for skilled professionals in open source technologies, a field largely new to many students. Red Hat Academy is at the heart of bridging this knowledge gap, redefining how students gain practical skills and connect with industry opportunities. With over 1,360 academic institutions across 25 countries and approximately 37,000 students trained so far in 2025, Red Hat Academy is more than a program—it’s a catalyst for impact, creating pathways for the next generation of open source innovators.As a Red Hat Technical

We are 2 years in on a strategic shift in virtualization. Although this shift created some initial panic, most customers have taken advantage of this shift as an opportunity to make a more strategic decision on where they want to go on their virtualization journey.Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is built on innovation, where customer needs inspire our engineers to deliver high-impact solutions to help them move from concept to general availability in a matter of months, not years. It’s no surprise that this commitment to rapid, customer-focused innovation earned OpenShift Virtualization the