A cascade of news. This is what Red Hat has announced at its Red Hat Summit 2023, that between May 22 and 25 takes place in Boston. Most of the new solutions from the open source software giant promise to accelerate the digital transformation of companies in their hybrid cloud environments, advancing the path of IT automation, improvements in supply chain protection, more security in business environments and new tools that improve the agility and efficiency of ICT developers and administrators… in a context that, as explained Matt HicksCEO of the company, AI has begun to change the world as we knew it… with Open Source software as one of the great accelerators of this new reality.
It is in this scenario that we find the launch of Ansible LightSpeed, which introduces an intelligent natural language processing capability for Ansible automation. The service will be integrated with Watson Code Assistant, to access IBM models and quickly create code that allows to easily automate the IT infrastructure and as Hicks himself has highlighted, “addresses the skills gap and efficiencies necessary to accelerate the time of creating value for enterprise automation” accelerating likewise with new data science capabilities in Red Hat OpenShift AI. In other words, unlike companies like Microsoft that are betting on AI to facilitate the development of applications, Red Hat’s approach happens because IT administrators are the ones who can make use of that natural language provided by the new intelligent environments. to manage your infrastructure in the easiest way possible.
In line with the above we find Event-Driven Ansible, a new function that drives IT automation by allowing automatic responses to events from third-party tools, such as the different infrastructure monitoring tools that a company has. For example, Event-Driven Ansible allows you to connect observability tools such as Dynatrace, with the event automation that Ansible now provides. Thus, when Event-Driven Ansible receives events from third-party tools, determines the next steps and acts automatically, allowing IT teams to pre-define and define rules to initiate automated responses in all types of situations.
In addition to offering a more consistent response across IT management functions, for IT departments this can also mean reducing the burden of error-prone manual routine tasks such as resetting passwords, adjusting compute and storage resources, increasing service tickets, etc. or make backups when a specific change occurs.
Troubleshoot incidents with Red Hat Insights
To provide cloud-scale management solutions, the multinational has also announced that RHEL incorporates new management capabilities based on Red Hat Insights. Through the administration console, technology managers will be able to identify and solve potential incidents quickly and easily.
This way, when Insights detects security issues or critical errors, IT teams can take advantage of this new simplified management experience to fix them quickly, without having to resort to advanced tools like Red Hat Satellite Server, since they can act in groups of servers simultaneously using patch templates.
Best of all, system administrators, regardless of experience level, can detect, assess, and correct potential problems from an intuitive interface, without the need to use the command line or have in-depth knowledge of Linux management systems. . According to Red Hat, these new capabilities can improve the time it takes organizations to detect an incident by up to 90% and the time it takes to resolve it by 66%.
On the other hand, the new tool Red Hat Insights Image Builder helps narrow down the skills required to manage Linux systems, enabling IT teams to quickly and easily build standardized and optimized operating system images that fit specific security and security needs. compliance of the organization, being able to be deployed in different hybrid cloud environments.
More security for the supply chain…
Securing the supply chain, at a time when it has become the new favorite target for cybercriminals, has become a priority for organizations. In this area, the company launches Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain, a series of cloud services that provide security and confidence to enterprise IT. These services include Red Hat Trusted Application Pipelinewhich offers CI/CD with integrated security control and Red Hat Trusted Contentwhich provides open source software dependencies and verified packages to speed delivery and increase security.
Available as a preview version in the coming weeks, Red Hat Trusted Content it will provide developers with real-time insights into known vulnerabilities and security risks within their dependencies and suggest possible solutions to minimize those risks, helping to reduce development time and costs.
At the same time, Red Hat Trusted Application Pipeline It makes it easy for developers to build and deploy their applications more easily and securely by making it easy to “package” them into Linux containers, then deploy them to Red Hat OpenShift or other Kubernetes platforms with just a few clicks.
and for containers in Kubernetes
According to the report “State of Kubernetes Security 2023” From Red Hat, 90% of respondents say they have experienced at least one security incident in the last 12 months, which has delayed the deployment of critical applications in the cloud. But as the company explains, securing cloud-native applications and the underlying infrastructure requires significant changes to an organization’s existing IT security strategies.
This is where it fits Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security, a solution that allows organizations to “secure workloads in a matter of minutes, while scaling more easily across clouds and geographies, without the need for additional overhead or complexity.” In this sense, Red Hat presents it as a fully managed service that supports both Red Hat OpenShift in private and public clouds and non-Red Hat Kubernetes services in the main cloud service providers, including Amazon EKS, Google GKE and Microsoft AKS.
Finally, in the field of development and methodologies agile, the multinational has presented Red Hat Developer Hub, an internal self-managed platform that improves the developer experience on open hybrid cloud platforms by providing a consistent self-service experience and accelerating the onboarding and delivery of new applications. Red Hat wants to show that it is ready for a world where automation can and will be the ace up the sleeve for companies in a world where it is increasingly difficult to access and maintain the best talent, while at the same time Companies remain competitive in increasingly uncertain scenarios.
