Red Hat: Ansible, Slop, and Paid Endorsements

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 06, 2026

• Red Hat Official ☛ Building zero trust networks with Red Hat Ansible

  Zero trust requires continuous, automated discipline at scale to counter modern security threats. By standardizing on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, NetOps teams can integrate smart threat detection with Event-Driven Ansible. This connection helps teams deliver rapid remediation while remaining within human-defined operational guardrails.

• Red Hat ☛ Why your non-root container dropped its capabilities (and how to fix it)

  You are a platform engineer running Red Hat OpenShift. A development team runs a monitoring sidecar as a non-root user that needs to perform ICMP ping health checks. They need CAP_NET_RAW, the capability required for raw socket access. Straightforward enough, and the security context constraints (SCC) is configured to allow the capability:

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• Red Hat Official ☛ Red Hat named a "Leader" in 2026 IDC MarketScape [Ed: Paid-for promotion]

  We believe this recognition from IDC MarketScape confirms what our partners already know: in a market where 88% of large organizations still manage production workloads on-premises, the need for a cohesive, scalable automation strategy has never been higher. By aligning your practice with Red Hat’s proven portfolio, you are offering customers a clear path to modernize their IT operations without the complexity of a "best-of-breed" patchwork.

• Red Hat Official ☛ Red Hat is named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Private and Hybrid Cloud Management with Automation

  The IDC MarketScape noted, “Ansible Automation Platform's lightweight architecture and expansive ecosystem of certified content collections make the platform a highly versatile and accessible automation tool for private cloud environments of varying scale and complexity. Early adoption by Red Hat of Day 2 automation, such as Event-Driven Ansible, and its integrated AI tools and integrations designed with IT operations teams in mind mean the intelligent assistant helps customers push the limits of automation further.”

• Red Hat Official ☛ MLOps for edge AI: Preparing AI models for deployment at the edge [Ed: Slop all day long]

  If you've ever had these questions, you should continue reading this article series. Here, we'll answer these and other questions related to the lifecycle of edge AI models.

• Red Hat ☛ Add NeMo Guardrails to a LangGraph agent on OpenShift AI [Ed: Slop maximalism]

  Your LangGraph agent can call tools, follow a system prompt, and answer domain questions. That's not the same as being safe to put in front of users. Without guardrails, a banking customer service agent might explain how to commit check fraud, reply to profanity, or happily help you bake a chocolate cake.

• Red Hat Official ☛ From AI pilots to production: How DH2i and Red Hat help customers run resilient, security-focused AI on Red Hat OpenShift [Ed: Slop promotion from IBM]

  DH2i has introduced 3 new use cases in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog, demonstrating how its 3 flagship products, DxOperator, DxEnterprise, and DxOdyssey help create a resilient security-forward foundation for AI applications on Red Hat OpenShift. The 3 use cases were developed through close collaboration between Red Hat and DH2i, with Vivien Wang leading the Red Hat side of development and OJ Ngo leading the DH2i side.