Red Hat: Releases, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and More (UPDATED)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 16, 2022,
updated Nov 17, 2022

• Red Hat Introduces Latest Versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Business Wire

  Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today introduced Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1, the latest version of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform. Along with the recently announced Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7, these minor versions add and refine capabilities for a wide range of enterprise IT needs, from helping to streamline complex infrastructure environments to improving the security stance of containerized applications.

• A 15-minute primer on Kubernetes | The Enterprisers Project

  Kubernetes has been admired by cutting-edge technology enthusiasts and engineers since its initial release in 2014. Container orchestration was still a relatively new concept at that time. As more software development teams began adopting containers, the demand for Kubernetes grew. Kubernetes is now revolutionizing the way companies of all sizes do business. According to Red Hat's State of Enterprise Open Source 2022 report, 70 percent of IT leaders say their organizations are using Kubernetes.

  Whether your organization is an early adopter or you're just getting started, the possibilities for automation, optimization, and innovation are endless with Kubernetes. But time is not endless. That's why The Enterprisers Project put together a Kubernetes primer that you can read in less than 15 minutes.

• Why OpenShift is essential for containerized applications | Red Hat Developer

  Over the past few decades, application development has been evolving from bare metal hosting to virtualization to containers, leading to the adoption of the Kubernetes orchestration platform. This article traces these developments and explains how Red Hat OpenShift provides the next level of application support.

  There has been an explosion in the modernization of application development and deployment over the past few years. Several publications such as Forbes and Business Wire quoted IDC's prediction that between 2018 to 2023 more than 500 million logical applications will be developed, which is equal to the number of applications built over the previous 40 years. In addition, businesses expect faster changes to applications.

• How open source powers innovation | Opensource.com

  One possible answer is the corporate research lab. More long-term focused than most company product development efforts, corporate labs have a long history, going back to Thomas Edison's Menlo Park laboratory in New Jersey. Perhaps most famous is Bell Labs' invention of the transistor—although software folks may associate it more with Unix and the C programming language.

  But corporate laboratories have tended to be more associated with dominant firms that could afford to let large staffs work on very forward-looking and speculative research projects. After all, Bell Labs was born of the AT&T telephone monopoly. Corporate labs also aren't known for playing with their counterparts elsewhere in industry. Even if their focus is long-term, they're looking to profit from their IP eventually, which also means that their research is often rooted in technologies commercially relevant to their business.

UPDATE

Here it it from Red Hat:

• What’s new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 | Red Hat Developer

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 brings new features and enhancements that deliver a more secure and consistent foundation for open, hybrid cloud environments and allow organizations to deliver workloads, applications, and services faster and more efficiently. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 can be downloaded at no cost as a part of the Red Hat Developer Subscription for Individuals.

  This article summarizes some of the ways Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 further improves the developer experience.

UPDATE

Vey little coverage. Phoronix:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 Released, AlmaLinux 9.1 Out Too - Phoronix

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 was officially released today as the latest update to this leading enterprise Linux distribution. This afternoon also marked the release already of RHEL-derived AlmaLinux 9.1.

3 more today (Thursday):

• iTWire - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 released

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.1 has now hit general availability, adding and refining capabilities for a wide range of enterprise IT needs, from helping to streamline complex infrastructure environments to improving the security stance of containerised applications.

  With cloud strategies now predominantly seeking Kubernetes-based application backbones instead of virtual machines, Red Hat says its RHEL 9.1 release continues to deliver an efficient foundation for modern apps and environments.

  Additionally, RHEL 9.1 keeps security front and centre with pre-configured operating system images to meet organisation-specific system security needs. IT teams can specify OpenSCAP security profiles in image builder blueprint files to deliver operating system images that meet IT security and compliance requirements from installation.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 Adds Native Firefox Support on GNOME on Wayland Sessions

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 comes exactly six months after Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 and introduces native support for the Mozilla Firefox web browser on the GNOME desktop environment using Wayland sessions.

  This change has been implemented in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstations 9.1 edition to allow users to use more native tools. Users can still use the XWayland/X11 GTK+ backend via an additional firefox-x11 package.

• • Red Hat pushes RHEL 9.1 with updated packages and more - Neowin

    Red Hat has announced the availability of RHEL 9.1, its enterprise-oriented Linux distribution. RHEL 9 came out in May 2022 and with the latest update, users get new features and capabilities including improvements to SQL, Red Hat Smart Management with Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Insights, and Workstations. There are also updated packages.

    Among the updated packages are PHP 8.1, Ruby 3.1, Node.js 18, Apache HTTP Server 2.4.53, GCC 11.2.1, glibc 2.34, binutils 2.35.2, GDB 10.2, Valgrind 3.19, SystemTap 4.7, Dyninst 12.1.0, elfutils 0.187, PCP 5.3.7, Grafana 7.5.13, GCC Toolset 12, LLVM Toolset 14.0.6, Rust Toolset 1.62, and Go Toolset 1.18.

SJVN:

• Say hello to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1

  Hot on the heels of the arrival of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.7, Red Hat has released the next version of its RHEL 9 family, RHEL 9.1.

3 more on this:

• Red Hat introduces latest versions of its enterprise Linux

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 and 9.1 Officially Available

• Red Hat Introduces Latest Versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux