What’s Happening at Red Hat – August 2022

By | July 28, 2022

“Where did July go?” Sheesh summer is more than half over. In this month’s NL we’ll discuss Summit Connect in San Francisco, tips for better Kubernetes security, new customer dashboard and a questionnaire (everyone’s favorite). There are loads of workshops to attend with links to registration.  – Scott Belz

Summit Connect San Francisco, CA
Live and In-Person

The premier enterprise open source event is hitting the road with Red Hat® Summit: Connect. Join us for this in-person event in San Francisco, California on September 29, 2022. There’s no cost to attend, so register now to save your seat. We’d love to see you there!

Come ‘Connect’ with us
Whether you want to expand on what you learned at Red Hat Summit in May, network with your peers, or get closer to the code, it’s possible at Red Hat Summit: Connect. Take advantage of sessions, demos, instructor-led labs, and self-paced labs that bring the future of hybrid cloud technology directly to you. View the San Francisco event agenda >

Hands-on, instructor-led labs
You’ve got first dibs on seats for our instructor-led labs, where you can explore our technologies firsthand. These are limited-seating sessions that require a separate sign-up from your Red Hat Summit: Connect registration.

You in? Sign up below.
If you’re ready, save your seat for Red Hat Summit: Connect. Once you’re registered, you can add instructor-led labs to your agenda using the “add to schedule” button within the session catalog. Please reach out to me if you have any additional questions.

Hope to see you there!

Quick Survey
Reply to this email with answers to the following…

  1. Do you know about the Red Hat Hands On Labs? URL to Lab Portal
    1. Developed by Red Hat engineers to help you improve performance, troubleshoot issues, identify security problems, and optimize configuration.
  2. Are you utilizing Red Hat Insights? URL to Insights Dashboard
  3. Would you like to see the Red Hat User Group return to Sacramento?

*Please reply directly to me using my Red Hat email. I appreciate your feedback.

2022 State of Kubernetes Security Report
Highlighting security challenges in cloud-native development…
“The report highlights the security challenges in cloud-native development—and how organizations are addressing the challenges and protecting their applications. Based on survey results from more than 300 DevOps, engineering, and security professionals, this report uncovers new findings about how companies that embrace containers and Kubernetes implement DevSecOps initiatives to protect their cloud-native environments.”

Key Findings
53% Detected a misconfiguration in Kubernetes in last 12 months
57% Worry the most about securing workloads at runtime
51% Require developers to use validated images
78% Have a DevSecOps initiative in either beginning or advanced stages
43% Consider “DevOps” as the role most responsible for Kubernetes security
55% Delayed or slowed down application deployment due to security concern

4 Tips for achieving better Security

  1. Use Kubernetes-native security architectures and controls.
  2. Security should start early but extend across the full life cycle, from build/deploy to runtime.
  3. Require portability across hybrid environments
  4. Transform the developer into a security user by building a bridge between DevOps and Security.

Download the full report HERE

New/Improved Red Hat Customer Dashboard
Major redesign with continued future improvements
Red Hat Customer Dashboard is a historic summary of an account that displays the activity during a selected time period and highlights subscription utilization as well as Red Hat added subscription features such as product content, updates, available labs, insights and more. 

What’s new in this release

  • Redesigned UX and UI using modern technology to better align with Red Hat Customer Portal
  • Improved customer messaging and linking to reduce customer friction
  • Trend indicators to provide additional data context
  • Significant improvements to “Support cases” section, including filtered click-through to Customer Portal case management (PCM)
  • “Customer Portal Labs” section now shows both usage and recommendations
  • First visit virtual tour, with on-demand replay
  • Updated customer documentation

AI Reports for Subscriptions
Want to see analytics on how you are using your Subscriptions and Portal?
If you would like to know things about your subscription like “What do I have?”, “How am I using it?”, “Am I getting everything out of my subscription?”,or “I didn’t even know there were labs I can use to test and practice.”, Contact Chris Conner or myself and we’ll be happy to share the AI reports and get you up to speed with all the Red Hat Portal options.

Upcoming Virtual Workshops (FREE)

August 2, 2022Automate your security operations to support a growing IT infrastructure
August 2, 2022Windows Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Workshop
August 3, 2022A day in the life: What it takes to be a Site Reliability Engineer
August 5, 2022Red Hat User Group – San Francisco
August 9, 2022Containers and Cloud-Native Roadshow presented by Red Hat and AWS
August 10, 2022Red Hat Ansible Network Automation Workshop
August 10, 2022Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills workshop
August 11, 2022Red Hat Ansible Security Workshop
August 11, 2022Lightning fast Java development with Quarkus
August 11, 2022Ansible Automation Platform for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 90-min Technical Workshop
August 11, 2022Red Hat User Group – San Diego
August 17, 2022Simplifying the management of your IT ecosystem with automation
August 17, 2022Webinar: Automating Windows Configuration Management with the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
August 18, 2022Red Hat Ansible for Windows Automation Workshop
August 25, 2022 Implementing multi-layer container and Kubernetes security for DevSecOps workshop

Red Hat Training (FREE)
LINK to classes by Red Hat
LINK to classes by edX

Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions you might have on the content or anything else that might help you with your Red Hat solutions.

  • Scott Belz