The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat® blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.


GOOD READ:
Red Hat Introduces New Partner Subscriptions to Enable Ecosystem Innovation and Customer Success
Red Hat launched Red Hat Partner Subscriptions, a no-cost subscription model that allows partners deeper access to the Red Hat open hybrid cloud portfolio. It offers a simplified path for partners to acquire Red Hat product subscriptions that can be used to develop software solutions and proof-of-concepts, test product offerings, deepen technical skills and more.


CHECK IT OUT:
Red Hat's Updated Ansible Time Savings Calculator
The newly enhanced Ansible Time Savings Calculator is a critical tool that enables customers to see how much time they can save with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. With just a few short questions, the assessment evaluates how automation can save valuable time, so you can focus on more strategic initiatives.


ON THE BLOG:
The State of Customer and Partner Experience at Red Hat 2022: How your feedback improves your experience
Part one of the three-part annual State of Customer and Partner Experience summary, we recap how the Customer and Partner Experience (CPX) team listened to customers and partners in the past year and how we worked with teams across Red Hat to act on the feedback we received.


IN THE NEWS:
The New Stack - 7 Expert Strategies for Managing RBAC on OpenShift
Keeping a tight grip on security when using Red Hat's container orchestration platform means managing access and permissions at a granular level. This article explores the best practices for managing fine-grained access in Red Hat OpenShift, to help ensure that users only have the access they need, when they need it.


LEARN MORE:
In the Clouds (E34) | Let’s Talk OpenShift 4.12 Update
In this episode of In the Clouds, Stu Miniman chats with Ju Lim, a senior product manager for OpenShift at Red Hat, about the new OpenShift 4.12 product release. They expand on the new features, answer questions and speak about our competitive positioning at Red Hat.
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