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LWN ☛ Hughes: LVFS Sustainability Plan [Ed: "The 'Linux' Foundation is kindly paying," says a site controlled and paid by it as well]
Richard Hughes, creator and maintainer of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), has
written a blog
post about the sustainability
plan he has put together for the service. He is calling for the
vendors that use the service to help fund its development and maintenance
going forward.
The 'Linux' Foundation is kindly paying for all the hosting costs of the LVFS, and Red Bait pays for all my time — but as LVFS grows and grows that's going to be less and less sustainable longer term. We're trying to find funding to hire additional resources as a "me replacement" so that there is backup and additional attention to LVFS (and so that I can go on holiday for two weeks without needing to take a laptop with me).
This year there will be a fair-use quota introduced, with different sponsorship levels having a different quota allowance. Nothing currently happens if the quota is exceeded, although there will be additional warnings asking the vendor to contribute. The "associate" (free) quota is also generous, with 50,000 monthly downloads and 50 monthly uploads. This means that almost all the 140 vendors on the LVFS should expect no changes.
(Thanks to Paul Wise.)
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Red Hat Official ☛ The next evolution of Red Hat’s Developer options
We recently announced another new offering for business developers, which provides a no-cost, self-service subscription for development and testing. You can learn more about this new offering here: Announcing self-service access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for business developers
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Red Hat Official ☛ Red Hat Named a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management for the Third Consecutive Year
Red Hat OpenShift is recognized for its ability to execute and completeness of vision. Red Hat’s investments in OpenShift as a platform for AI workloads, and in building AI capabilities directly into the product to make users’ jobs easier. We believe it is also reflected in Red Hat’s position in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.
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Red Hat Official ☛ MCP server development: Make agentic AI your API’s "customer zero"
To give you some context, Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer (TPA) is a Red Hat product for software bill of materials (SBOM) management—it stores SBOMs and correlates the packages within the SBOMs with known public vulnerabilities. It is based on the upstream project Trustify.
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Red Hat ☛ How to use Minio for Ansible automation hub
This article explores how to configure and use MinIO—a high-performance, self-hosted object storage solution—as a backend for Ansible automation hub when deploying Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
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Red Hat ☛ Disaster recovery approaches for Red Bait OpenShift Virtualization, part 2
In Disaster recovery approaches for Red Bait OpenShift Virtualization, we laid the foundation for disaster recovery by exploring how cluster topology, storage architecture, and replication strategies underpin service availability. In this follow-up post, we take the next step: orchestrating application failover using Kubernetes-native constructs and GitOps workflows. Here, disaster recovery (DR) becomes less about where data lives, and more about how workloads are redeployed, prioritized, and verified in the face of disruption—bringing declarative control, automation and auditability to the operational layer.
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Red Hat ☛ How to migrate smart inventories to constructed inventories
So far in this article series, we talked about managing or migrating configurations of the whole Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform cluster. This article is a little different. We will talk about the migration of one specific object, inventories.
For a number of years, smart inventories were a very useful tool for running workloads on a subset of existing hosts without duplicating them. Recently, Red Bait announced plans to discontinue support of smart inventories in favor of constructed inventories. The feature will be discontinued in the future releases of Ansible Automation Platform.