Developers should be very excited to combine Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest this year. Red Hat’s vision of automation lives on.
Red Hat did not disappoint. We have extended and fulfilled our vision of improving the developer experience. With the new announcement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and the delivery of Project Wisdom, officially announced as Ansible Lightspeed with IBM Watson Data Assistant, developers can innovate faster than ever with a fully automated delivery. Streamline your application development while keeping things moving.
Key announcements at Red Hat Summit 2023
Given all the new advancements for developers announced at this year’s conference, it’s easy to see how tech stacks can improve how developers build, release, and deploy applications. However, these announcements also take into account the past, present, and future state of the application.
Some of the most notable announcements include:
- Red Hat Service Interconnect. This tool for hybrid cloud application networking simplifies connecting applications and services across clouds, containers, VMs, and bare metal while protecting data, making applications portable in distributed cloud environments.
- Red Hat plugins for Red Hat Developer Hub and Backstage. These tools integrate with Git and Jenkins across standard and technical stacks, leveraging the Backstage developer portal to provide a consistent developer experience across physical, virtual, hybrid hyperscalers and OpenShift.
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security cloud service. The product secures Kubernetes deployments across hybrid environments, managed by Red Hat and flexible consumption models.
- Red Hat OpenShift AI. This update extends Red Hat OpenShift Data Science to expand AI innovation, deliver consistency across cloud-to-edge deployments, and provide end-to-end lifecycle management for IBM Watson and Ansible Lightspeed.
- RHEL management with Red Hat Insights. This tool allows teams to monitor the health of their cloud from their browser via redhat.com while adding value with a single management experience.
- RHEL for third-party Linux migrations. This RHEL update is built for consistency when converting from CentOS Linux 7 and allows for security updates. A developer subscription and access to his Convert2RHEL tools and customizations allow the team to move to the cloud his instances without recreating them. Available on-premises or in the cloud.
- Red Hat’s trusted software supply chain. Delivered as a cloud service, the tool integrates security guardrails into every phase of the software development lifecycle, from code build to release to monitoring.
- Event-driven Ansible (EDA). EDA leverages a multitude of event sources to focus on service delivery and automated decision-making. It can be implemented within and across various IT use cases resulting in increased efficiency, improved service delivery and reduced costs.
- Ansible Lightspeed (formerly Project Wisdom). Lightspeed aims to provide automation-focused, domain-specific AI with inherent transparency and choice in the user experience, making specific automation knowledge broadly accessible.
- Podman desktop, community edition. Built for application developers leveraging containers and Kubernetes, the tool can be installed and run anywhere in containers and pods, provides enterprise readiness, and supports integration between local and remote OpenShift clusters. provide a bridge for
With these advancements, Red Hat is committed to delivering a simplified approach to building, managing, automating, securing, and scaling any workload anywhere, on any footprint.
Lessons learned from the conference: looking to the future
By providing an integrated technology stack, Red Hat can ease the burden on organizations by potentially eliminating the need for IT and developers to learn different ways to build, deliver, and deploy applications. There is a nature. This is an ongoing challenge for organizations. Projects can take a long time or never complete due to IT skills gaps and a shortage of hiring resources.
In fact, according to TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group report, 2023 Distributed Cloud Series: Cloud Native Survey, 67% of organizations plan to hire generalists over specialists in the next 12 to 18 months. As the project workload increases, it is important that the technical staff are optimized and work efficiently.
With these new announcements, Red Hat not only harmonizes the learning curve from on-premises to edge to cloud, but also provides an integrated technology stack that optimizes application automation and deployment. It’s not a silver bullet, but it offers a way to reduce the complexity organizations face in a multi-cloud, multi-location world. In the same report, Enterprise Strategy Group found that 94% of organizations run their workloads in two environments. or higher cloud service providers.
It’s great to see Red Hat’s vision come to life. The passion that Matt Hicks, Chris Wright, and the entire Red Hat team demonstrated during the session was genuine and I truly believe that Red Hat is making strides in solving organizational challenges.
Unsurprisingly, the Red Hat Summit with AnsibleFest is a very technically focused event, and we could have tied more of our technical announcements to business issues. However, they connected well with the audience and were enthusiastically engaged during keynotes and sessions. The customer examples and case studies are also very good and worth a look for anyone considering offerings for their own organization.
