Red Hat Weekly News

Mitigating open source supply chain risk

The past few years have given us a sobering look at the potential damage caused by security breaches. Organizations need to give serious consideration to their software "supply chain," and how to quickly address any newfound vulnerabilities and exploits. Whether due to bugs or bad actors, there are times when serious security issues can crop up and propagate through the supply chain, causing headaches all the way up and down the line. And it can take some time to sort these issues out, especially if you’re trying to manage all of this on your own.

Discover and remediate security vulnerabilities faster with Red Hat Insights

Red Hat Insights is 91% faster, according to a study by Principled Technologies, than discovering vulnerabilities on a fleet of systems using a scripted or any sort of manual method. This post by John Spinks shows you how the Insights dashboard and "Remediate" feature help you quickly discover and fix vulnerabilities that are affecting your systems.

14 years old and changing the world: how Red Hat is supporting one girl’s mission to diversify coding

Avye Couloute started the Girls Into Coding (GIC) movement, which aims to teach girls how to design, build and program robots among other tech-centric activities. Since launching her project in 2018, Avye has shared her knowledge and passion with more than 900 girls. Learn more about this remarkable young woman and the GIC project here.

The state of Customer Experience at Red Hat: Product and documentation enhancements

Throughout 2021, the Red Hat Customer and Partner Experience team collected and analyzed more than 15,000 survey responses, conducted a total of 15 virtual focus groups, events, and feedback sessions, and collected feedback from over 1,000 active users in our Red Hat Customer Portal Community. Based on this research, a number of enhancements have been made to Red Hat products and documentation resources. Read about some of these in this first of three blog posts.

And, in case you missed it, here’s last week’s Red Hat Friday Five.

How the debuginfod project evolved in 2021

Debuginfod is a web service for distributing debugging resources over HTTP. The project began in 2019 and has seen a lot of growth in 2021. Aaron Merey introduces the debug info web service, explains what it does, and talks about some of the new features added to the tool in 2021.

How to install Red Hat Satellite

Red Hat Satellite is a powerful content management and provisioning tool that you can add to any Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscription with the addition of a Smart Management subscription. In this multi-part tutorial Paul Lucas shows you how to provision RHEL VMs to a vSphere environment from Red Hat Satellite. The post focuses on provisioning RHEL 8.3 VMs in one lifecycle environment, but you can easily adapt this to provision other RHEL versions.

Automating network and Microsoft SQL Server configuration using RHEL System Roles

Automation can help increase efficiency, save time, and improve consistency, which is why Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) includes features that help automate many tasks. RHEL System Roles is a collection of Ansible content included in RHEL to help provide consistent workflows and streamline the execution of many manual tasks. Brian Smith explains more about using this powerful tool to help automate Microsoft SQL Server configuration.

That’s all the room we have for news this week—be sure to check out the events, podcasts and webinars in the sidebar! Have a safe and healthy week.

That’s all the room we have for news this week—be sure to check out the events, podcasts and webinars in the sidebar! Have a safe and healthy week.