Red Hat Leftovers
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Announcing AnsibleFest at Red Hat Summit 2023
For a decade, AnsibleFest has become the world’s leading IT automation technology event for the Ansible community. It began with just hundreds of automators gathering at a day-long conference, and has expanded into a multi-day experience for thousands of attendees to join in on major innovations in Ansible automation, from mainstage announcements to interactive labs and topical sessions. It even pivoted to a virtual experience to bring automation aficionados together, at home.
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Red Hat Updates Certification Exam Retake Policy to Broaden the Red Hat Certified Community
Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced an updated Red Hat Training and Certification exam retake policy that offers candidates an opportunity to retake individual and preliminary exams at no additional cost, helping organizations fill skill gaps from Red Hat’s growing community of qualified certified professionals. New certification candidates or those who have purchased individual or preliminary exams and have not taken them yet are eligible for a retake of the exam at no additional cost if they are unsuccessful in their first attempt. Red Hat Learning Subscription (RHLS) standard, premium and developer subscribers will now receive conditional retakes for each of the exams provided by their respective subscriptions.
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New Red Hat partnerships with SAP and Oracle could bode well for owner IBM
It’s been a good week for Red Hat, and by extension IBM, the company that owns it. That’s because Red Hat signed two partnership agreements this week, one with Oracle and the other with SAP. Those are some big players, and if it results in more deployments for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), it could be a big win for IBM.
Let’s start with Oracle, which frankly is a bit of a case of strange bedfellows. But the customer wants what the customer wants. Oracle might have been giving into customer demand, says Holger Mueller, an analyst at Constellation Research, who says the deal is a win for both companies.
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Create encrypted backups of your workstation with an Ansible playbook
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IT careers: How to figure out what’s next
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Automate Microsoft SQL Server Always On availability groups on Red Hat Enterprise Linux [Ed: Red Hat is promoting Microsoft proprietary software that does not even run on GNU/Linux]
Back in August, we shared a preview of the enhancements to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system role for Microsoft SQL Server that allow it to support Always On availability groups. Microsoft’s Amit Khandelwal followed up with a blog post on how to use the role to configure availability groups in Azure.
With RHEL 8.7 and RHEL 9.1 now generally available, these features are jointly supported by Red Hat and Microsoft as part of the latest RHEL distributions and through the Ansible Automation Hub. The previous blogs gave you an idea of the scope of the functionality we’ve delivered, this one will cover how to use the functionality.
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Azure Red Hat OpenShift for Microsoft Azure Government Now Available [Ed: Red Hat actively promoting Microsoft, as a sort of reseller. This is betrayal as Microsoft attacks the GNU/Linux community in a lot of ways.]
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Verified Flatpak Apps are Coming Soon
Flatpak apps now have a verified badge icon, only on the beta portal for now.
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Fedora Community Blog: Friday’s Fedora Facts: 2023-06
Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)!