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Last year, we released the automation intelligent assistant (formerly Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant), a generative AI service accessed through a chatbot embedded within Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Using a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipeline connected to Red Hat documentation and other trusted resources, the intelligent assistant allows administrators to use natural language prompts to help them manage and troubleshoot Ansible Automation Platform without leaving the platform UI. The automation intelligent assistant in the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platfor

Image builder for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a powerful tool for creating custom RHEL images with pre-installed software and configurations. It helps organizations standardize deployments, bring consistency, and reduce manual effort, generating ready-to-deploy images for virtual machines (VM), cloud, and bare metal. Image builder for RHEL can be used as a hosted service on the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console or as an on-premise service from the RHEL command-line interface and the RHEL web console.What's new for the image builder command-line interface in RHEL 10.2 and 9.8?The image-builde

At the OpenShift Commons gathering in Amsterdam at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon earlier this year, attendees got a front-row seat to the digital transformation of one of the world's most complex hubs. Roel Donker, Technology Lead within Royal Schiphol Group, joined Maxim Burgerhout, Principal Account Solution Architect at Red Hat, to discuss how the airport is utilizing Red Hat OpenShift to prepare for a "hybrid future." Image 1: Roel Donker, Technology Lead within Royal Schiphol Group, joined Maxim Burgerhout, Principal Account Solution Architect at Red Hat speaking at the OpenShift Commons Gathe

Lately, headlines dominated by AI-driven zero-day vulnerabilities have raised a question: Is open source software becoming too risky for the enterprise? With open source comprising more than three-quarters of the average enterprise codebase, the question matters. But the answer is clear: open source software remains inherently safe, structurally resilient, and fundamentally secure.Open source effectively serves as the foundation for all of modern technology, not just enterprise IT, and this is about much more than just Linux. Application servers, databases, network routing, developer environme

As telecommunications (telco) mobile networks evolve from physical hardware to virtualized and containerized infrastructure, the volume of necessary network element upgrades has increased exponentially. For Telstra, Australia’s leading telco and technology company, this shift makes traditional manual network configuration unsustainable.To support a connected future, Telstra needed to move beyond manual intervention and embrace a strategy where the network could manage, protect, and optimize itself. Telstra modernized its approach by transitioning to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, shift

Every team that moves an AI model from experimentation to production hits the same wall. The model works. The serving stack works. Then someone asks how the continuous integration (CI) pipeline is going to authenticate, and the room gets quiet.What happens next is predictable. A developer's personal token gets copied into a secret. Or a service account gets created with more access than anyone intended, shared across pipelines, and forgotten. The traffic flows. Nobody knows whose budget it counts against. When that developer moves teams 6 months later, the credential lives on in places nobody

The initial release of the RISC-V Developer Preview, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.0, was in May 2025. Today, Red Hat is releasing a software refresh to that Developer Preview to update the code to RHEL 10.2. The hardware platform remains the same (SiFive HiFive Premier P550), but the new release contains more of the upstream code specifically for that platform as well as incremental upstream updates for support of the RISC-V instruction set architecture. Red Hat continues to work to integrate RISC-V support into the upstream community.The addition of the upstream code may enable

To achieve higher tiers of autonomy as defined by the global telecom industry association TM Forum, service providers must move beyond simple and reactive automation scripts. The goal is to achieve closed-loop, intent-driven operations where networks self-optimize, self-heal, and adapt to high-level business goals with zero human intervention. Enterprise and telecommunication service providers face a clear challenge: they need a robust, scalable, and secure cloud and an AI-native foundation that seamlessly integrates with specialized service orchestration.Red Hat is collaborating with Tata Elx

The AI-enabled enterprise: Why we are applying software engineering principles to business operationsRed Hat is applying the concept of Business as Code to reshape its own business operations. Serving as "Customer Zero," Red Hat uses the same principles that govern software engineering to transform standard operating procedures into a scalable, compounding enterprise asset that drives real growth. Learn more What's New in Ansible Automation Platform 2.7Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 builds on previous releases with more features and enhancements to help enable a platform engineering

When building and maintaining consistent execution environments, platform engineers and developers routinely lose valuable time identifying dependencies, tracking down content collections scattered across different repos, and wrestling with manual syntax configurations. With the release of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7, these challenges have become a thing of the past. The execution environment builder and unified content discovery experience within the automation portal work together to dramat

Platform engineering can improve developer experience, provide reusable platform services across an organization, and help teams deliver software more quickly without compromising trust and security. In practice, however, many platform teams struggle to achieve the level of adoption they expect. Some teams find themselves pulled into project-specific support work. Others build tools and standards that are technically sound, but rarely used, and as a result, the platform does not deliver the reusability or scale it was intended to provide.As a Red Hat consultant, I have worked on platform engin

Recently, Red Hat's Vincent Danen highlighted how AI models found 271 real security defects in Firefox in a single pass during Mozilla's collaboration with Anthropic. If AI can do that for defenders, it can do the same for attackers. As Danen put it, "if your security strategy is solely predicated on the assumption that software will be vulnerability-free, you've already lost." Vulnerabilities in code are only the entry point. The real damage comes after—lateral movement through misconfigured networks, overprivileged credentials, unrotated secrets, and services that blindly trust each other.

Today we released Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7, which builds on previous releases with more features and enhancements to help you enable a platform engineering approach to automation, accelerate adoption across different teams, and prepare your IT operations for AI-driven automation. Here's a look at what's included in our latest release. Empower platform engineering and boost developer productivity The self-service automation portal, released with Ansible Automation Platform 2.6, allows ITOps teams to make automation available to users who are not automation experts yet need easy

The keys that Microsoft uses to sign for Secure Boot are expiring at the end of June 2026. Here is what you need to know:Secure Boot-enabled systems will continue to boot after June 2026 whether they are immediately updated or not.Red Hat has released new shims, signed by multiple certificates, for all supported RHEL 9 and RHEL 10 streams; RHEL 8 will receive the new shim in June 2026.To prepare your systems for the future, it’s best to update your firmware database, if an update is available, and update your shim.What is Secure Boot?UEFI Secure Boot is a security feature that permits only s

Over the past year, the conversation around artificial intelligence has undergone a massive evolution, shifting from isolated pilots or experiments with standalone tools. For leaders, the true challenge—and the ultimate prize—lies in building a fully AI-enabled enterprise. This means moving beyond experimentation into true operationalization, creating a scalable framework where AI drives both front-office revenue growth and back-office efficiency.At Red Hat, we are approaching this transformation with a dual mandate. First, we are focused on building enterprise-grade AI products and platfo

Red Hat Summit demonstration booth featuring a model train track, edge computing hardware, monitoring displays, and supporting infrastructure used to demonstrate AI-driven automation at the edge.Many AI demos stop at detection. A dashboard highlights an object, a model produces a classification, or a graph updates in real time. Those are valuable building blocks, but operational environments often require something more immediate—systems that can react locally, autonomously, and in near time.Using the Red Hat edge portfolio, we set out to explore what happens when AI moves beyond observatio

The theme for TM Forum Digital Transformation World (DTW) Ignite 2026 in Copenhagen is "The Future. Faster." As we move further into the decade, connectivity has evolved from a utility into the central nervous system of modern society. Telecommunications (telco) networks now support the most critical infrastructure—from remote healthcare and smart utility grids to national defense and emergency response. The transition from "telco to techco" means that they’re delivering the intelligent foundations that power a global digital economy.However, this increased reliance on the network brings a

"Every AI lab is losing money serving your company right now. They know it. And they are doing it on purpose."That was the opening line of an article that landed in my inbox the same week 3 numbers crystallized to make it clear why open inference is no longer optional.A developer built a simple notes app over a weekend using an open source coding agent with a direct API key. One page, one feature. Cost: $50. The next day, a $20/month subscription provided 50x more tokens.One engineer on our inference team consumed 300 million tokens through open-weight models in 2 days, doing the same work tha

There is a growing realization across the industry that we've reached an AI tipping point.For the last couple of years, the conversation has been dominated by the question of what is possible with AI. Today, that question has shifted to, "now that we have it, how do we control it?" We're also moving from a world where computation was plentiful to one where it’s becoming restricted again—not just by the availability of GPUs, but by the boundaries of geography, regulation, and trust.Many organizations are putting on the brakes, realizing that a "cloud-only" AI strategy can introduce complexi

For the millions of visually impaired individuals worldwide, the lack of access to trained guide dogs represents a severe accessibility gap. While robotic alternatives exist, they have historically been limited by high costs and short battery life due to the heavy on-device processing required for autonomy. This year at DTW Ignite 2026 in Copenhagen, we are showcasing the Catalyst project, "The robotic dog: AI at the edge, sustainable revenue at scale." This Catalyst project demonstrates our collaboration with AsiaInfo, ATT, China Telecom, Netcracker, Omantel, and ZTE, and shows how intelligen