Ansible Automates 2023 | RHEL 8.8 | Monolithic Apps | Workshops
Hello Red Hat Enthusiasts. We have some great announcements this month for Ansible, RHEL and OpenShift and I’ll be sharing a great article link on “4 ways to make monolithic enterprise apps feel cloud-native”. OpenShift 4.13 is GA and the feature announcements will be coming March 23 – 25 at Red Hat Summit (Link to Summit).
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Ansible Automates 2023 – VIRTUAL EVENT OPTION
June 27, 2023 | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Ansible® Automates 2023 is an in-person and live stream conference hosted by Red Hat. The right IT automation solution can unify teams and processes across an organization, ultimately transforming the way IT is delivered.
Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform supports extensive possibilities and is designed with hybrid cloud infrastructure in mind. It is a flexible, scalable, and multifaceted automation solution that works across your enterprise, wherever your organization might be in its automation journey.
Why attend?
Learn how to create an automation-first approach for your organization.
Who should attend?
- IT decision makers
- IT operations leaders and managers
- DevOps leads
- Enterprise architects
- IT Ops Directors, Vice Presidents
- Chief information Officers
- Security professionals, and anyone interested in IT automation.
Ansible Automates 2023 – Sessions
- Addressing Cybersecurity Workforce “Opportunities” with Automation
- Securing the control plane: Hardening the Ansible platform
- Security Automation with Ansible
- Ansible best practices for automating firewalls with a focus and demo using PaloAltoNetworks
- Intelligent Operations for Security Teams
- Let automation handle your patching so you can worry about other things
- Empower rather than delegate – automation and the helpdesk
Announcing the Release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8
Officially available and ready for download
We are excited to announce the general availability of RHEL 8.8. This new version of RHEL provides a security-hardened and consistent foundation for an open hybrid cloud environment with faster deployment and less effort across different environments.
- Support and better performing Python 3.11 and Nginx 1.22
- Ansible System Roles for automating the deployment of production ready Podman containers quickly and consistently
- RHEL System Roles for automating Microsoft Active Directory and SQL Server 2017, 2019, and 2022
Read all the latest details from the resources below:
- Manage configuration complexity with RHEL 8.8 blog
- Press Release – Red Hat delivers the latest releases of RHEL
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 release notes
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 documentation
Make Monolithic Apps Feel Cloud-Native
Not every application can be microservices-based
In a recent article posted on the Enable Architect blog site, the author breaks down into four steps how to make an old monolithic enterprise application feel like it’s cloud-native. As he also states “Unfortunately, not every application can be transformed…”. We’re all looking for ways to alleviate technical debt and “IT organizations typically spend 64% of their budget on running their current IT environment, leaving less budget for growth and innovation.” states a report from the 2021 Flexera State of Tech Spend Report.
- Use cloud automation to modernize legacy application management. [ Learn best practices for implementing automation across your organization. Download The automation architect’s handbook. ]
- Deploy load balancers to optimize performance. [ How to balance virtual machine traffic with Kubernetes services ]
- Adopt an everything-as-code strategy. [ An Illustrated Guide to GitOps ]
- Integrate legacy apps with modern toolchains. [ Managed services vs. hosted services vs. cloud services: What’s the difference? ]
Read the full article HERE.
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- Scott Belz