Red Hat unveils new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat, the global provider of open source solutions, has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2, its enterprise Linux platform and the foundation for Red Hat’s hybrid cloud portfolio. To help better address the IT challenges presented by shifting global dynamics, Red Hat believes that the operating system should do more than “just work;” it should help stabilise operations today with the capacity to support and embrace innovation later.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2, built for the hybrid cloud era, is designed to offer these capabilities and more, extending beyond the reliability, stability and production-readiness for which the platform is known. The latest additions to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 platform help organisations recognise more value from existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions with:
- New intelligent management and monitoring capabilities via updates to Red Hat Insights, Red Hat’s proactive operations and security risk management offering that is included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions for versions 6.4 and higher.
- Enhanced container tools
- A smoother user experience for Linux experts and newcomers alike
- Smarter monitoring for a distributed IT organisation
As the world works to manage the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more IT organisations are operating remotely or with limited manpower. Now more than ever, IT teams need to be able to monitor, manage and analyse the underlying foundations of enterprise technology stacks, regardless of size, scale, complexity or where they reside across hybrid/multicloud footprints, the company said. Red Hat Enterprise Linux can help intelligently detect, diagnose and address potential issues before they impact production, driven by advancements in Red Hat Insights.
New updates to Red Hat Insights add new use case functionality and features including:
- Improved visibility into IT security, compliance postures and operational efficiencies
This helps to eliminate manual methods and improve productivity in managing large and complex environments while enhancing security and compliance across these deployments.
- New policies and patch services
The feature helps organisations define and monitor important internal policies and determine which Red Hat product advisories apply to Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances. Guidance for remediation is also provided.
- Drift service
This service helps IT teams compare systems to baselines, providing a benchmark to guide strategies for reducing complexity and expediting troubleshooting.
Additional monitoring and performance updates in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 include:
- Improved resource management with Control Groups (cgroups) v2
The feature helps limit memory usage through reserving memory and setting usage floors/limits. This helps prevent specific processes from over-consuming memory and causing system failures or slowdowns.
- Better capabilities for optimising performance-sensitive workloads through non-uniform memory access (NUMA) and sub-NUMA service policies.
- Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) 5.0.2
PCP adds new collection agents for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 to help collect and analyse a wide array of SQL Server-related metrics, providing a clearer picture for database and operating system tuning.
- Red Hat subscription watch
This software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool enables customers to more easily view and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform subscriptions across hybrid cloud infrastructure.
While containerised workloads provide a clear path towards digital transformation and a cloud-native future, the tools used to build these applications must balance the latest innovations with a stable and supported lifecycle. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2, an updated application stream of Red Hat’s container tools is available, supported for 24 months. Additionally, for organisations looking to build containers inside of containers for additional layers of isolation and security, containerised versions of Skopeo and Buildah are available in Technology Preview*.
To further extend the security of containerised workloads, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 introduces Udica, a new tool for more easily creating customised, container-centric SELinux security policies. When applied to a specific workload, Udica can reduce the risk that a process can “break out” of a container and cause problems across other containers or to the host itself.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 also introduces enhancements to the Red Hat Universal Base Image, including:
- OpenJDK and .NET 3.0 for expanded developer choice in building Red Hat certification-ready cloud-native applications
- Improved access to source code associated with a given image through a single command, making it easier for Red Hat partners to meet source code requirements for open source licensing needs.
Further streamlining the user experience
With Linux continuing to grow as the backbone for enterprise IT, lowering the barrier for new and existing users is a key focus for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2. To help facilitate improved ease of use and an overall user experience, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 adds:
- Integrated Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription registration as part of the installation process, providing an easier on-boarding experience for new installations.
The ability to enable Red Hat Insights during installation to simplify the launch of Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux estates of any size.
Continued refinement and control of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux lifecycle with testing for in-place upgrades, Red Hat Insights rules to help with upgrades, and the Convert2 RHEL tool which can help shift workloads from unsupported Red Hat Enterprise Linux clones like CentOS to Red Hat's enterprise Linux platform.
Said Stefanie Chiras, VP and GM, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat: “Right now, IT organisations need to do more with existing technologies in their established software stack; they need to drive operational stability and maintain service availability, frequently with remote or limited IT teams, without mortgaging their technological future.
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 provides this and more, with proactive, intelligent monitoring capabilities and enterprise-ready container tools, enabling IT teams to support the crucial needs of today while maintaining ready to take on a cloud-native future, whenever their operations can support it.”
Details:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 will soon be generally available via the Red Hat Customer Portal.
*Technology Preview features provide early access to upcoming product innovations, enabling users to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process. The features are not fully supported under Red Hat Subscription Level Agreements, may not be functionally complete, and are not intended for production use. However, the features are provided to the customer as a courtesy and the primary goal is for the feature to gain wider exposure with the goal of full support in the future.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2, built for the hybrid cloud era, is designed to offer these capabilities and more, extending beyond the reliability, stability and production-readiness for which the platform is known. The latest additions to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 platform help organisations recognise more value from existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions with:
- New intelligent management and monitoring capabilities via updates to Red Hat Insights, Red Hat’s proactive operations and security risk management offering that is included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions for versions 6.4 and higher.
- Enhanced container tools
- A smoother user experience for Linux experts and newcomers alike
- Smarter monitoring for a distributed IT organisation
As the world works to manage the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more IT organisations are operating remotely or with limited manpower. Now more than ever, IT teams need to be able to monitor, manage and analyse the underlying foundations of enterprise technology stacks, regardless of size, scale, complexity or where they reside across hybrid/multicloud footprints, the company said. Red Hat Enterprise Linux can help intelligently detect, diagnose and address potential issues before they impact production, driven by advancements in Red Hat Insights.
New updates to Red Hat Insights add new use case functionality and features including:
- Improved visibility into IT security, compliance postures and operational efficiencies
This helps to eliminate manual methods and improve productivity in managing large and complex environments while enhancing security and compliance across these deployments.
- New policies and patch services
The feature helps organisations define and monitor important internal policies and determine which Red Hat product advisories apply to Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances. Guidance for remediation is also provided.
- Drift service
This service helps IT teams compare systems to baselines, providing a benchmark to guide strategies for reducing complexity and expediting troubleshooting.
Additional monitoring and performance updates in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 include:
- Improved resource management with Control Groups (cgroups) v2
The feature helps limit memory usage through reserving memory and setting usage floors/limits. This helps prevent specific processes from over-consuming memory and causing system failures or slowdowns.
- Better capabilities for optimising performance-sensitive workloads through non-uniform memory access (NUMA) and sub-NUMA service policies.
- Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) 5.0.2
PCP adds new collection agents for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 to help collect and analyse a wide array of SQL Server-related metrics, providing a clearer picture for database and operating system tuning.
- Red Hat subscription watch
This software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool enables customers to more easily view and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform subscriptions across hybrid cloud infrastructure.
While containerised workloads provide a clear path towards digital transformation and a cloud-native future, the tools used to build these applications must balance the latest innovations with a stable and supported lifecycle. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2, an updated application stream of Red Hat’s container tools is available, supported for 24 months. Additionally, for organisations looking to build containers inside of containers for additional layers of isolation and security, containerised versions of Skopeo and Buildah are available in Technology Preview*.
To further extend the security of containerised workloads, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 introduces Udica, a new tool for more easily creating customised, container-centric SELinux security policies. When applied to a specific workload, Udica can reduce the risk that a process can “break out” of a container and cause problems across other containers or to the host itself.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 also introduces enhancements to the Red Hat Universal Base Image, including:
- OpenJDK and .NET 3.0 for expanded developer choice in building Red Hat certification-ready cloud-native applications
- Improved access to source code associated with a given image through a single command, making it easier for Red Hat partners to meet source code requirements for open source licensing needs.
Further streamlining the user experience
With Linux continuing to grow as the backbone for enterprise IT, lowering the barrier for new and existing users is a key focus for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2. To help facilitate improved ease of use and an overall user experience, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 adds:
- Integrated Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription registration as part of the installation process, providing an easier on-boarding experience for new installations.
The ability to enable Red Hat Insights during installation to simplify the launch of Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux estates of any size.
Continued refinement and control of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux lifecycle with testing for in-place upgrades, Red Hat Insights rules to help with upgrades, and the Convert2 RHEL tool which can help shift workloads from unsupported Red Hat Enterprise Linux clones like CentOS to Red Hat's enterprise Linux platform.
Said Stefanie Chiras, VP and GM, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat: “Right now, IT organisations need to do more with existing technologies in their established software stack; they need to drive operational stability and maintain service availability, frequently with remote or limited IT teams, without mortgaging their technological future.
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 provides this and more, with proactive, intelligent monitoring capabilities and enterprise-ready container tools, enabling IT teams to support the crucial needs of today while maintaining ready to take on a cloud-native future, whenever their operations can support it.”
Details:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 will soon be generally available via the Red Hat Customer Portal.
*Technology Preview features provide early access to upcoming product innovations, enabling users to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process. The features are not fully supported under Red Hat Subscription Level Agreements, may not be functionally complete, and are not intended for production use. However, the features are provided to the customer as a courtesy and the primary goal is for the feature to gain wider exposure with the goal of full support in the future.
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