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As we continue to expand intelligence capabilities in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, we’ve made the MCP server available as a technology preview feature in Ansible Automation Platform 2.6.4. The MCP server acts as a bridge between your MCP client of choice and Ansible Automation Platform. This integration helps you manage your entire infrastructure estate with exciting new tools like Cursor and Claude. What is MCP server for Ansible Automation Platform?The MCP server for Ansible Automation Platform is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that enables Large Language Mod

Support for managed identities and workload identities is now Generally Available (GA) for Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift clusters. As a fully managed offering, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is a trusted, comprehensive and consistent application platform for building, deploying, and managing your applications at scale. It’s jointly operated and engineered by both Red Hat and Microsoft, providing an integrated support experience and allows organizations to focus on building and deploying applications, not managing the underlying infrastructure. This is a significant milestone that provides an en

AI adoption and development have accelerated with generative and agentic AI reaching the masses. As new markets emerge, businesses have been struggling to take advantage of AI for real returns on investment. Although GPUs have dominated the infrastructure, increasing costs and decreasing availability due to demand have prompted leaders to seek alternatives that still meet performance requirements and customer satisfaction standards.Meanwhile, the developers and engineers working on AI face challenges in complex and time-consuming infrastructure setup and difficulty in building out software sta

Every organization piloting generative AI (gen AI) eventually hits the "inference wall." It’s the moment when the excitement of a working prototype meets the cold reality of production. Suddenly, that single model running on a developer’s laptop needs to serve thousands of concurrent users, maintain sub-50ms latency, and somehow not bankrupt the IT budget in cloud costs.The core challenge for enterprise AI is mainly operational: Solving the efficiency equation. It is no longer enough to just run a model, you must run it with precision performance. How do you maximize tokens per dollar? How

The general availability (GA) of SQL Server 2025 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL) empowers enterprises to confidently deploy Microsoft SQL Server 2025 on Red Hat's latest enterprise Linux platform, combining Microsoft's modern, AI-ready database with the security, stability, and performance that RHEL is known for. Try it today on the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog.With SQL Server 2025 support on RHEL 10, organizations can run mission-critical SQL Server workloads on a platform built for hybrid cloud, edge, and AI-driven environments. This release reinforces our joint commitment to delivering a

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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux now available on the AWS European Sovereign CloudEuropean organizations in highly regulated sectors have faced the persistent challenge of balancing rapid innovation with strict digital sovereignty. To help

At the recent OpenShift Commons gathering in Atlanta, we had the opportunity to hear from Gustavo Fiuza, IT leader, and Welton Felipe, DevOps engineer, about the remarkable digital transformation at Banco do Brasil. As the second-largest bank in Latin America, they manage a massive scale, serving 87 million customers and processing over 900 million business transactions daily. We learned how they evolved from a siloed community Kubernetes environment to a highly efficient, hybrid multicloud platform powered by Red Hat OpenShift. Scalability through capabilities and hyperautomationA primary tak

For the last 5 years, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) has largely been discussed as a research topic. It was a question of if—if the standards are ratified, if the algorithms perform, if the threat is real.In 2025, Red Hat changed the conversation. We stopped asking “if” and started defining “how.” This past year, we moved PQC out of the laboratory and into the operating system (OS). It wasn’t just about upgrading libraries, it was about pushing the entire modern software supply chain. We found that while the foundation is ready, the ecosystem has a long way to go.Here is the story

In a previous article, The strategic choice: Making sense of LLM customization, we explored AI prompting as the first step in adapting large language models (LLMs) to real-world use. Prompting changes how an AI model responds in terms of tone, structure, and conversational behavior without changing what the model knows.That strategy is effective until the model requires specific information it did not encounter during its initial training.At that point, the limitation is no longer conversational—it is architectural.Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) helps address that limitation. Not by ma

As AI becomes an engine of national competitiveness, the concept of sovereign AI—the capacity to operate AI systems free from external influence—is increasingly relevant, but the path to adoption is filled with challenges. A recent survey of over 900 IT leaders and AI engineers about AI adoption exposes a significant "value gap," showing that, despite high enthusiasm (72%), only 7% of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) organizations are delivering results.The survey highlights that data privacy and infrastructure silos are paralyzing AI development efforts. As a result, sovereign A

European organizations in highly regulated sectors, such as finance, healthcare, and the public sector, have faced the persistent challenge of balancing rapid innovation with strict digital sovereignty. To help address these needs, Red Hat is pleased to announce support for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) available as a foundational platform for sovereign workloads.What is the AWS European Sovereign Cloud?The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a new, independent cloud infrastructure designed specifically for public sector organizations and customers in highl

At the recent OpenShift Commons gathering in Atlanta, we had the opportunity to hear from Brian Cook, (director, Kubernetes site reliability engineer Kubernetes security posture management), about how Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is navigating a massive shift in how they operate. As the global heart of trading activities, DTCC faces intense global regulations and a critical need for velocity without compromising security. We learned how they transitioned from a legacy environment to a "zero touch" model built entirely on GitOps principles. Facing a tight 10-month windowOne of

Confidential computing represents the next frontier in hybrid and multicloud security, offering hardware-level memory protection (data in use) through technologies such as AMD SEV and Intel TDX. However, implementing storage solutions in these environments presents unique challenges that traditional approaches can't address.In this article, we'll explore different approaches to adding storage to Red Hat OpenShift confidential container environments, what to watch out for, and how AltaStata—a Red Hat partner—simplifies the process with encryption and protection for AI.The challenge: Storage

We’re excited to announce the general availability of zero trust workload identity manager, a Red Hat solution that delivers universal, runtime-attested identities for workloads in your cloud-native deployments.Modern applications run across multiple clusters, clouds, and regions, and traditional identity mechanisms—long-lived secrets, static certificates, or provider-specific Identity and Access Management (IAM)—struggle to keep up. Zero trust workload identity manager solves this by issuing ephemeral, cryptographically attested identities to workloads at runtime. This enables your appl

The journey to enterprise-wide Kubernetes adoption can be a "wild, wild west" of disparate environments and challenging security for some organizations. That's the landscape Northrop Grumman faced in 2020. At Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering, software engineering managers Joe McConnell and Randy Ellefson shared the lessons they learned while building a modern, multicloud Kubernetes platform for Northrop Grumman built on Red Hat OpenShift. Image 1: From Left, Randy Ellefson and Joe McConnell, Northrop Grumman’s Chief Information and Digital OfficeStandardizing on Red Hat OpenShiftInitially

Register today to unlock what's next at Red Hat Summit 2026Red Hat Summit 2026 heads to Atlanta, Georgia! Register by February 23 for our lowest pricing and discounted group rates for your organization, so you can uncover opportunities for your business, your customers, and yourself. Learn more Accelerate readiness. Reduce risk. Build skills that scale.Hybrid cloud, automation, and AI are transforming how organizations operate. Red Hat Learning Subscription Course helps teams add new skills and refine existing expertise through a flexible, scalable approach to learning. Learn more SiliconAN

In case you missed it, we rounded up the top 5 videos on Red Hat TV from 2025. Red Hat TV is a no-cost streaming platform featuring Red Hat customers, partners, and solution experts to help you build skills, gain insights, and get the tools you need to stay ahead of the latest technology trends.Watch the top episodes from 2025 now: 1. Building the Future Using Bootable ContainersTune in for an in-depth overview of image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), a modern approach to building, deploying, and managing RHEL systems. This approach offers significant advantages in consistency, secur

Within Red Hat’s Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) framework, an embargo is a strictly-defined window of time during which a security vulnerability is known only to a small group of trusted parties before being made public, including the vulnerability reporter and the relevant upstream community and partners.Why are embargoes necessary? The primary goal of an embargo is customer protection. If a severe vulnerability is disclosed immediately upon discovery by way of "full disclosure" without an available patch, malicious actors have a window of opportunity to exploit systems while us

The latest release of the Red Hat OpenShift cluster observability operator 1.3 introduces observability signal correlation, incident detection, application performance monitoring (APM) dashboard, and more. These features aim to revolutionize how organizations monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain containerized environments by reducing complexity and accelerating issue resolution.Cluster observability operator 1.3Advanced observability capabilities in Red Hat OpenShift have evolved significantly, with the 1.3 release introducing the general availability of two features to help organizations monit

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,