What’s Happening at Red Hat – July 2025

Posted on by Scott Belz

At Red Hat Summit 2025, we unveiled our bold AI vision: deploy any model, on any accelerator, across any cloud — all powered by open source. With so many announcements, I’ll keep it brief and please use the links provided for more details. Also, check out the Summit 2025 website for more information.

CalHEERS Wins 2025 Red Hat Innovation Award

At Red Hat Summit 2025, Covered California’s CalHEERS platform was honored with a Red Hat Innovation Award for its ambitious modernization effort. CalHEERS supports millions of Californians seeking affordable healthcare. To meet growing demand and streamline operations during peak periods, the team migrated from a monolithic, on-premise system to a cloud-native microservices architecture on Red Hat OpenShift. This transformation reduced application spin-up time from 15 minutes to 15 seconds, processed 170 million transactions in 2025 alone, and improved agility in response to policy changes. With 1.97 million enrollments and plans to adopt AI-driven user support, CalHEERS continues to lead in digital innovation for public services. Read the full announcement here.

AI Across the Hybrid Cloud

  • Red Hat AI Inference Server: Optimizes AI inference across any environment, built on vLLM and integrated with Neural Magic and Hugging Face.
  • OpenShift Lightspeed: AI-powered assistant for OpenShift now GA. Supports OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, IBM watsonx, and custom org knowledge.
  • New third-party validated models and model compression tools boost gen AI performance.
  • Launched llm-d open source community to push forward distributed inference. Founding contributors: CoreWeave, Google Cloud, IBM, NVIDIA.
  • New Model Context Protocol enables AI agent development without rewriting legacy apps.
  • Expanded partnerships:
    • NVIDIA: Agentic AI systems on hybrid cloud, Blackwell support.
    • Meta: Day 0 Llama support and Red Hat-backed Llama Stack.
    • Google Cloud: Day 0 support for Gemma 3, inference server availability.
  • New Ask Red Hat AI assistant now live in the Red Hat Customer Portal.

RHEL 10: Smarter, Safer, Ready for the Future

  • RHEL 10: AI-native and quantum-ready with image mode (bootable containers), NIST post-quantum crypto, and new extensions repo.
  • RHEL Lightspeed: Gen AI CLI help for sysadmins.
  • Confidential VMs and Zero Trust workload identity in preview.
  • Cloud-optimized RHEL images now available for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
  • RHEL Security Select Add-On: Extended CVE backporting and compliance help.
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.17 released with better reporting and Insights integration.

Automation & Virtualization

Red Hat at the Edge

  • Red Hat Edge Manager: Lifecycle management for large-scale edge fleets.
  • Collaborated with ABB and others on real-time and offline edge systems.
  • New Offline Knowledge Portal brings Red Hat docs to disconnected environments.

Software-Defined Vehicles

  • Red Hat In-Vehicle OS now ISO 26262 ASIL-B certified.
  • Partnered with Qualcomm, Renesas, Intel, TI, and NXP to accelerate auto innovation.

Cloud & Dev Innovation

  • Advanced Developer Suite launched for cloud-native development.
  • Oracle collaboration: OpenShift now certified on OCI edge, private, and GPU shapes.
  • New OpenShift features: ambient mesh, GitOps control plane, Vault integration.

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  • Scott Belz

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