Top 10 blog posts about the open source community in 2024

Red Hat is a contributor to and sponsor of many open source projects, so many Red Hatters are also part of the wider open source community. We all get something different from the communities we’re involved with, and the Red Hat Blog regularly explores the many ways we’re all influenced by our communities. Here’s the top 10 articles about open source communities from 2024.

1. Open source culture: 9 core principles and values

Open source software is developed in a decentralized and collaborative way, relying on peer review and community production. Red Hat is the largest open source company in the world. We build and support open source products from open source projects, and we give back to the projects and communities we engage in.

Over the past several decades of global collaboration, a culture has evolved in open source communities. While every community is unique, there are common traits. In this article, Isabel Lee provides an insider’s look at nine of the core principles and values you might expect when engaging with communities building software together.

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2. OpenShift Commons Security Special Interest Group

Have you ever wondered what the open source community is thinking about when it comes to cloud platforms? The inaugural Community Day event at Red Hat Summit 2024 brought together the communities driving Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform in one location, and they covered a lot of ground. In this article, Andrew Block, Andy Braren and Sean Rickerd give a detailed report about what members of the OpenShift Commons Security Special Interest Group (SIG) is focusing on.

How do you access platform images? How do you restrict network flow? What’s your biggest struggle related to infrastructure or platform security? See where you align with your peers in this elucidating conference report!

3. What is InstructLab and how do you use it? 9 quick videos to help you get started

InstructLab is an open source community project that provides a simple and accessible way to improve a large language model (LLM) used in generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) applications. It’s also a core element of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI. But don’t rely on AI to explain it to you. This article contains 9 videos of humans explaining InstructLab, and the many ways you can get involved in improving open source AI.

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4. The open source advantage: Your catalyst for agility

Open source is a community effort, but business isn’t community. And yet, open source isn’t just a development model. It’s a strategic mindset that fuels agility, innovation and choice, which is exactly what a modern competitive business must embrace. Read all about the breadth of the open source advantage in this article, and then download the accompanying e-book for more.

5. Open source AI at Red Hat: Our journey in the Kubeflow community

Red Hat has been involved in AI and data projects for years. We launched the Open Data Hub to help develop and support open source projects, like Kubeflow and KServe, which are dedicated to data and AI and machine learning (ML).

After joining the Kubeflow community, Red Hat senior software engineer Ricardo Martinelli volunteered to work on the Kubeflow 1.9 release as release manager, collaborating with fellow Kubeflow contributors to create a roadmap for the release. Several Red Hat engineers have also worked closely with the KServe community to lead efforts to add HuggingFace and vLLM runtimes, adding a pluggable explainer runtime, enhancements and bug fixes to RawDeployment mode, and much more. In 2024, we also created a proposal on behalf of the Kubeflow community to Google Summer of Code.

Read the full article to learn all about how Red Hat engineers have contributed to these projects and others.

6. Strengthening security of the software supply chain for LLVM

A lot of time and effort is put into writing security-focused software. To help developers write safer code, hardware vendors add new features and memory-safe languages like Rust are gaining popularity. However, advancements in software security can be rendered useless when the supply chain for delivering software is compromised. Red Hat engineers have been working with the LLVM project to secure our software supply chain to help protect against these kinds of attacks.

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7. 4 ways to talk to your manager about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Embracing automation sometimes requires a cultural shift within an organization. There have been years of doing things one way or another, or doing things manually under the illusion that anything else means loss of control. Before you try to convince your manager to give automation a chance, do yourself a favor and read this article.

8. MLRun Community Edition on Red Hat OpenShift

MLRun is an open source machine learning operations (MLOps) orchestration framework designed to build, manage and scale ML applications. Red Hat puts a lot of work into providing the community with effective and efficient machine learning tools to grow AI workloads. But how do you get started with machine learning? Read this article for a demonstration of the install and deployment of the MLRun Framework on a Red Hat OpenShift cluster and then try it for yourself.

9. Q&A on a public sector consulting role with Red Hatter Cait Macleod

Are you pondering a career in tech? Everyone’s open source journey is unique, so there’s no blueprint on how to do it right. Reading about people who are happily working in tech can be inspiring and informative. Read about Cait Macleod’s path into technology as a career in this article.

10.From free software enthusiast to container connoisseur

Speaking of somebody happily working in tech, Giuseppe Scrivano started out as a free software enthusiast and hobbyist. Today, he’s a self-proclaimed container connoisseur, making a living doing what he loves. Read about his journey into the tech industry in this article.