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As communications service providers (CSPs) embrace the shift to 5G, they’re not just adopting faster speeds, they are entering a new world of cloud-native, microservices-driven networks. But for all its promise, 5G brings challenges, especially when it comes to interoperability and lifecycle management of the 5G control plane.Complexities of a cloud-native and multivendor networkUnlike traditional monolithic networks of the past, 5G networks rely on microservices-based, cloud-native network functions (CNFs) that must work reliably across different vendors’ platforms, orchestration layers,

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the foundation for countless mission-critical deployments. But what happens when your business needs to stay on a specific version of RHEL longer than the standard lifecycle, or requires enhanced security beyond what the already-robust subscription delivers by default? That's where RHEL lifecycle add-ons come in.This article provides a comprehensive comparison of the add-on subscriptions designed to extend the support lifecycle and enhance the security of your RHEL environments: Extended Update Support (EUS), Enhanced Extended Update Support (EEUS), Extended

2025 has been a year of innovation in automation for customers of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Here are just a few stories from customers that exemplify how Ansible Automation Platform has helped organizations turn automation into a foundation for long-term success.Automation as the foundation for enterprise growthIn 2025, automation evolved from a tactical tool into the foundational architecture for organizations to scale, operate, and adapt. Customers adopted Ansible Automation Platform as a centralized automation control plane, integrating it with other platforms like Red Hat Enterp

Looking back, 2025 was a year of significant milestones for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. From a game-changing presence at Red Hat Summit to the launch of Ansible Automation Platform 2.6, the year was filled with a number of exciting new features and momentum!Automation synergy: Red Hat + HashiCorpRed Hat was acquired by IBM in 2019, and in 2025 IBM announced its acquisition of HashiCorp. This made a powerful statement on the future of enterprise automation and hybrid cloud management. Together with HashiCorp's Terraform for Infrastructure-as-Code and Vault for secret management, and An

Welcome to 2026. As we look back at the final weeks of 2025, it is clear that our industry has shifted from “what if” to “how to.” Last year was defined by the move from AI experimentation to production-grade reality, the hardening of cloud-native security, and the rise of unified automation platforms. Whether our community was focused on scaling hundreds of clusters or slashing VM provisioning times from months to minutes, the goal remained consistent: building a foundation that is security-focused, scalable, and resilient.Getting Started with Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationWhether y

For many organizations, the decision to modernize virtualization platforms is no longer a "nice to have,” it is a necessity driven by a market in flux. With growing pressures like vendor lock-in and rising renewal costs, the need to move both quickly and strategically are increasingly important. But if the "state of traditional virtualization is uncertain," as Ross Beard, vice president of marketing and partner alliances at Shadow-Soft, puts it, why do so many organizations hesitate to move towards a modern future?Beard, whose team has supported over 200 customers in their modernization jour

Many organizations are considering generative AI (gen AI) as a means of reducing the time employees spend filing IT requests and the time IT teams spend closing these requests. To this end, we’ve created an it-self-service-agent AI quickstart that shows you how to automate IT processes within your organization using agentic AI on Red Hat OpenShift AI. This AI quickstart provides a reusable framework—including request routing, agent services, knowledge bases, an integration dispatcher, and an evaluation framework—that you can apply across multiple IT processes. While we're demonstrating a

The systems running an organization's infrastructure and applications are interconnected, creating an environment of controlled chaos where events in one area can ripple unpredictably through others. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform features Event-Driven Ansible as an automation mechanism for reacting to these ripples. Event-Driven Ansible listens to external event or alert sources so you can design automated responses for these events, enabling faster response to problems with consistency and accuracy. A foundational use case that can be used almost anywhere to provide a great deal of valu

At Red Hat’s OpenShift Commons Gathering in Atlanta on November 10, 2025, Joseph Kanjirathinkal, DevOps manager at Dell Technologies, and James Walton, principal solution architect at Red Hat, shared Dell Technologies' journey to modernize their developer experience by adopting Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces. Image 1: Joseph Kanjirathinkal sharing how OpenShift Dev Spaces are made available to developers in Dell ISG/CSGOpenShift Dev Spaces: A cloud development environmentTo understand why Dell began this transition, it’s important to understand the technology itself. Red Hat OpenShift Dev Sp

Red Hat Summit registration is now openRegistration is now open for Red Hat Summit—heading to Atlanta, Georgia, in 2026—and this year’s event is shaping up to be one of our most impactful yet. Register by February 23 to get our lowest pricing, and save even more when 3+ people from your organization register together at our discounted group rate. Learn more Compiler - AI Is Changing The Threat LandscapeAI isn’t just here to augment our jobs. It’s also a new attack surface. IBM’s Jeff Crume joins the Compiler team to talk about the implications for cyberthreats moving forward. Lis

The modern era of AI training, particularly for large models, faces simultaneous demands for computational scale and strict data privacy. Traditional machine learning (ML) requires centralizing the training data, resulting in significant hurdles and effort concerning data privacy, security, and data efficiency/volume.This challenge is magnified across heterogeneous global infrastructure in multicloud, hybrid cloud, and edge environments, so organizations must train models using the existing distributed datasets while protecting data privacy. Federated learning (FL) addresses this challenge by

As traditional learning methods fall short in the fast-paced world of cloud computing and container orchestration, Ford has pivoted to a more agile approach to technology education: an internal Kubernetes user group that has transformed how its teams learn, collaborate, and innovate.What began as a small initiative has blossomed into a vibrant ecosystem of over 200 passionate developers, demonstrating the incredible potential of community-driven learning. Their journey reveals how organizations can create meaningful technological communities that transcend traditional training boundaries.The g

If you’re a platform engineer or SRE, you know that managing infrastructure and efficiently managing it are two very different things. You’ve been able to run virtual machines (VMs) alongside containers in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for a while now. But as your fleet grows, finding that one specific VM acting up in a haystack of clusters can feel like a scavenger hunt you didn't sign up for.Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 redefines your daily workflow instead of just adding features. We’ve taken the capabilities you rely on and made them easier to use so

Enterprise AI is evolving beyond individual models to unified data ecosystems.As organizations scale their AI initiatives, an exciting opportunity emerges—building a unified data gateway that connects every step of your AI pipeline, from raw data through compute processing to feature catalogs and model serving. This isn't just about managing complexity, it's about creating a foundation that helps accelerate innovation.One recurring challenge organizations face is that data scientists end up rebuilding the same features over and over again. One team calculates customer lifetime value for a ch

Red Hat Summit is taking over the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA, May 11-14, 2026 and we want you to be there. Registration is now open for the premier enterprise open source event for IT professionals.Every year we bring together thousands of customers, partners, open source community members and technology industry leaders from around the world for a high-energy week of innovation, education and collaboration.Red Hat Summit puts you right in the center of technology evolution, giving you the opportunity to connect, innovate and help shape the future of IT.You’ll experience th

Virtualization has been an evolving part of ITOps over the past several years. A variety of applications run on virtualization technology and many companies are assessing their options for new platforms to run these critical workloads. Goals include cost optimization, protection of budget, identifying advantages in new platforms, and modernization. Red Hat and Cisco have teamed to provide a comprehensive computing platform for virtualization. While the focus of this article is virtualization, this platform can also support other types of computing. It combines the following solutions to deliv

The technology landscape is shifting rapidly, and at the heart of this change is a vibrant, interconnected ecosystem of partners. Today, we are excited to introduce Kevin Kennedy as vice president of the Global Partner Ecosystem at Red Hat.Kennedy steps into this role during a pivotal era for hybrid cloud and AI, bringing a unique perspective forged from sitting at every side of the technology table – from direct sales at IBM and Xerox to a decade in leadership within distribution at Arrow, EMC and Tech Data, and most recently, leading Red Hat’s partner ecosystem in North America and Latin

In today’s IT world, change is not coming; it is here. Hybrid cloud, automation, and AI are transforming how organizations operate, and the pace shows no sign of slowing. Teams that cannot keep up risk falling behind. However, there is a way to stay ahead: investing in the right skills, at the right time, without disrupting ongoing work.Red Hat Learning Subscription Course helps teams add new skills and refine existing expertise through a flexible, scalable approach to learning. This helps teams adapt, innovate, and thrive, while limiting disruption to existing operations.Choosing a course

The Argo CD Agent is now Generally Available with the release of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.19. Organizations using Kubernetes and OpenShift have widely adopted the GitOps methodology to manage clusters and applications, with Argo CD being the leading open source GitOps solution on Kubernetes. However, organizations adopting Argo CD have faced challenges selecting an appropriate Argo CD deployment model. There's often a choice between prioritizing scalability across multiple clusters or to implement centralized GitOps management. The Argo CD Agent for OpenShift GitOps solves this challenge by

After much anticipation, Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) with hosted control planes in AWS GovCloud is now authorized against the FedRAMP High baseline controls in accordance with the Rev 5 authorization path. This means that customers are now able to use the hosted control plane architecture with ROSA in the AWS Government Community Cloud (GovCloud). The hosted control plane architecture, based on the HyperShift project, streamlines ROSA in AWS GovCloud classic architecture by providing a more effective and efficient use of customer resources, which can lead to improved security postu