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At the OpenShift Commons Amsterdam gathering, the premier "Day zero" event for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, the energy was electric, with a session that perfectly captures the spirit of cloud-native transformation.Joerg Meyer, Software Solution Architect at Diebold Nixdorf, took the stage to deliver a compelling presentation titled, "Diebold Nixdorf Breaks the Shackles of Legacy Payments Infrastructure." Meyer shared how this global leader in banking and retail technology is moving away from the rigid constraints of the past to build a high-availability, future-ready payments platform

For more than 20 years in this industry, the conversation around enterprise software procurement followed a highly predictable script. An organisation would buy a subscription for an open source solution, lock down a certified version, and effectively try never to touch it again unless something broke. Security updates arrived on a slow, linear cadence. That era is officially over.Frontier AI models have fundamentally changed the game in security patching. Automated tools can surface thousands of vulnerabilities across open source software ecosystems in practically no time. Therefore, the secu

Earlier today, Red Hat and IBM unveiled two commercial offerings of Lightwell to deliver automated vulnerability remediation at scale. However, true security requires a movement—a connected network of industry leaders and experts working in lockstep. Vulnerabilities in the open source supply chain affect the entire ecosystem, regardless of where they originate.That is why the launch of Lightwell is intrinsically tied to our global partner ecosystem. With this release, we are establishing a new standard for industry collaboration.A unified front for open source securityModern innovation is bu

To maximize your efficiency when using AI, you can learn new AI skills and validate your existing ones with Red Hat Training and Certification. Rooted in flexibility, innovation, security, and consistency, Red Hat AI and Red Hat OpenShift AI help organizations accelerate the development and delivery of AI solutions across hybrid cloud environments. As you begin your AI learning journey, the course “Developing and Deploying AI/ML Applications on Red Hat OpenShift AI” is a great starting point. It provides students with the fundamental knowledge to manage the complete lifecycle of modern AI

Jaap Jansma, manager Overheidsdatacenter Noord (ODC-Noord), en Marcel Timmer, Country Director Netherlands bij Red Hat, vertellen hoe een klein team in Groningen uitgroeide tot leverancier van een aantal cruciale bouwstenen voor het fundament onder de digitale overheid. Red Hat levert de fundamentele open source-software voor het platform, die ODC-Noord implementeert, beheert en exploiteert als een schaalbare soevereine clouddienst. Samen kijken ze naar wat er nodig is om die rol te blijven vervullen, van schaalbaarheid en digitale soevereiniteit tot veilige AI-ontwikkeling binnen de Rijksover

Red Hat Satellite 6.19 moves Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) management forward and continues to deliver the value of Red Hat Lightspeed to disconnected, air-gapped, and data-sovereign environments. This latest release shifts the focus from merely finding vulnerabilities to proactively managing risk, and refines the advisor experience so administrators can cut through the noise and focus on what truly matters.Vulnerability service for RHEL reaches general availabilityThe big news: Red Hat Lightspeed’s vulnerability service is now generally available (GA) for disconnected RHEL environments in

Change is the only constant. But for organizations operating in highly regulated sectors such as global finance, telecommunications, healthcare, and government, constant change can be the enemy of stability. These industries rely on "change-averse" workloads, where the infrastructure must remain rock-solid for decades to meet rigid regulatory, compliance and architectural requirements.We've designed a “RHEL forever” solution specifically for these critical environments: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long-Life Add-On.This new offering marks a significant evolution in how your organization can ma

Learning how to use the vi text editor is essential for anyone working in a Linux environment. And while it can take some time to get used to how it works, mastering vi commands will help you edit files incredibly quickly without leaving your terminal or reaching for a mouse.In this post, we cover the essential vi commands you need to navigate, edit, and save your text files like a pro.What is vi editor?Created by Bill Joy in 1976, the vi editor is a fast, lightweight text editor that lets you manipulate text files directly in a terminal window. Most modern Linux systems use an updated version

The AI transition from experimental chatbots to agents faces a critical hurdle in highly-regulated sectors like biomedicine and public health. While these autonomous systems can navigate complex data to perform real-world tasks, there is a clear lack of a security-focused, standardized, and observable framework for AI agents to interact with sensitive data. Without enterprise-grade guardrails, the potential of agentic workflows remains confined to the lab sandbox.To address this challenge, Red Hat has launched a joint research effort with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) a

The drive toward NetOps-as-Code continues to reshape how enterprises manage their infrastructure. We see the demand for resilient, agile networks capable of supporting hybrid cloud applications and distributed edge environments continuing to grow, and Red Hat aims to support these needs with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Recent advancements across the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and its partner ecosystem focus on turning this model into a practical reality. Here are some highlights of the last few months that show how the automation landscape is evolving to deliver scalable, AI-

Since February, over 1,500 organizations have used Red Hat's complimentary Digital Sovereignty Readiness Assessment to establish a sovereignty baseline in 15 minutes. Today we're introducing the Digital Sovereignty Readiness Appraisal, a workshop-based maturity evaluation that delivers capability-level analysis, industry-weighted scoring, facilitation materials, and an actionable transformation roadmap. The assessment framework is open source, and we've made it available on GitHub.A facilitated roadmap for true digital autonomyDigital sovereignty has moved from a compliance checkbox to a board

BackendTLSPolicy is a Kubernetes resource that allows the specification of additional Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption in Gateway API. It gives Gateway API users on Red Hat OpenShift access to the same level of secured traffic as the OpenShift route provides with re-encrypt termination, and is now available in Red Hat OpenShift 4.22. Re-encrypt TLS termination is already used for the OpenShift route that provides access to the web console, and provides encrypted login functionality to customer applications.Gateway API is the open source, next-generation network ingress solution develo

IBM, Red Hat, and Deloitte Announce Lightwell Collaboration to Help Strengthen Open Source Software Supply Chain TrustDeloitte is teaming up with IBM and Red Hat to support Lightwell and strengthen the enterprise open source software supply chain. By backporting and validating patches directly into active production environments, the collaboration fixes vulnerabilities at machine speed without forcing disruptive, full-system software upgrades. Learn more Bloomberg Tech Disruptors Podcast - Red Hat president and CEO Matt Hicks on Open Source and Enterprise AIIn a recent Tech Disruptors podcas

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.4 is generally available with Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus. Based on the Istio, Envoy, and Kiali projects, this release updates the version of Istio to 1.30, and Kiali to 2.27. Several updates to Istio’s sidecar-less ambient mode and more are included. Kiali introduces a new overview page to better manage service meshes at scale, while bringing AI-powered capabilities with Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed to technology preview to help you diagnose and resolve issues faster. This post will also provide a preview of what is to come later th

At Red Hat Summit 2026, the conversation centered on a critical reality: AI agents are arriving in enterprise IT faster than most environments can govern them. Across the keynotes and more than 50 technical sessions, Red Hat made its position clear—organizations don't need to start over for the AI era. Instead, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is acting as the trusted, deterministic execution layer for autonomous AI.Here are the 4 defining themes and real-world breakthroughs from the event.1. Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 as the execution layer for the agentic eraBy 2027, the vast major

Insights from a customer roundtable at Red Hat Summit 2026Platform engineering and operations leaders from across industries—including airlines, utilities, financial services, higher education, and government—gathered for a candid conversation about agentic AI at Red Hat Summit 2026. We wanted to find out what's actually working, where the risks lie, and how teams are finding value today.From platform management to AI collaborationThe question underpinning every conversation at our roundtable was a variant of this: What does it look like when a platform stops being something you manage and

Maintaining operational stability while securing infrastructure against an ever-growing list of vulnerabilities is a daily balancing act. Red Hat Lightspeed provides the core services required to manage your infrastructure at scale.However, getting the most out of these services requires making a strategic decision: How should your infrastructure connect to Red Hat Lightspeed?The process of choosing a deployment architecture goes beyond engineering; it must also take business strategy into account, as it affects your data privacy, infrastructure costs, and operational agility. Red Hat Lightspe

AI is rapidly transforming how system administrators and developers interact with their environments. In 2025, we introduced the command line assistant, an optional tool available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that allows users to ask questions and get natural language troubleshooting guidance right from the terminal.We're now announcing the next step in our AI-driven systems management journey—the availability of the goose AI agent in the RHEL extensions repository for RHEL 9.8 and RHEL 10.2. A project of the Agentic AI Foundation, goose is a flexible, open source AI agent that can be

Every telecommunications service provider is operationalizing AI right now. Use cases include customer care-bots, network operation co-pilots, and managed AI-as-a-service (AIaaS) for external enterprise customers and others. The uncomfortable part is correlation of use case with business case, where the key factor is the cost of the AI accelerator, whether that's a graphics processing unit (GPU), tensor processing unit (TPU), or neural processing unit (NPU). Cost per inference decides whether these AI accelerators improve profit margins or erode them; to keep costs down, the AI model you sele

The velocity at which new features are added and applications evolve directly drives up architectural complexity. This relentless pace isn't just driven by the desire for new features; it is increasingly forced by the constant discovery of new vulnerabilities. Patching a single critical dependency can trigger a cascade of required updates and unexpected architectural changes as each product and solution comes with a myriad of implementation options and various features to enable or disable. Tailoring this complexity to your specific environment makes it challenging to guarantee every component