Strong growth over the years going on 11 years
Mature session tracks that covered everything from Big Data, DevOps, Open Source, Mobility and IOT
Attendee break out is still very much focused on the end user, architect and engineers of Red Hat products
RedHat knows who they are, who their customers are, and what direction they want to go in
Show is still very much end user focused
Illustrates the areas of where OpenSource has taken deep root and has strong validation
Red Hat announced a plethora of updates to its Linux container portfolio, proving how critical containers are to the company's future business strategy.
Red Hat added OpenShift Container Local and OpenShift Container Lab for non-production environments, giving would-be users more room to experiment before they commit to the Red Hat ecosystem, and built on
Red Hat containers got a boost in security and storage as well, both of which could help ease the deployment of containers in the enterprise.
OpenShift, the company’s PaaS, is now available in three different form factors: Red Hat OpenShift Local, which provides a way for developers to deploy applications locally, Red Hat OpenShift Lab, for team development environments, and Red Hat Container Platform, the production version formerly known as OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat.
Focus on scalability and integrations with Kubernettes Openshift moved from home grown stuff towards kubernettes - and this is a platform that will allow them to scale *differentiated from Docker Swarm which is focused on simplicity and moving towards Scale
Choice around implementation and adoption – driving choice in the community for those who want to work with technology like docker but also want other options to be available
CloudForms, Red Hat’s hybrid cloud management tool, based on the open-source ManageIQ product the company had previously acquired, is designed to enable applications to bridge multiple clouds, and has been expanded to provide support for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud in addition to OpenStack.
Red Hat has placed itself firmly in the market of hybrid cloud, and to achieve this it needs to be able to connect to other clouds.
Containers are Linux…and in order to be a container vendor, you have to be a commercial Linux vendor. It’s Linux in a different form factor. Just like a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) VM running on top of VMware is still a RHEL, it’s the same thing with containers. If you’re going to be a container vendor, you’re going to do Linux. It’s just the way it is.”
“Containers will be an everywhere concept. Containers are not a new technology. It’s been around, even in the Unix days. Now that people are trying to move around in a hybrid cloud environment, containers are absolutely the vehicles to do that.”
Initially launched with support for RHEL and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, has been enhanced, and now provides visibility into OpenStack clusters, containers, and virtualized workloads. Insights will now offer full container workload analysis, updates OpenStack cloud capabilities, and an Actions Insight Planner to add customisation to task assignments.
Action Planner "can enable teams to identify and assign remediation tasks individually or in groups.
IT organizations can more easily document the remediation process and move from intelligence to action, while remaining compliant with change management policies defined by operations teams. Customers can create their own custom remediation plans as well as utilize Insights recommended plans, tailored to their specific infrastructure and risks.“
Early Access Mode is a new opt-in modality that, "gives users visibility into upcoming new features, allowing users to test out functionality, give feedback, and help shape the evolution of Red Hat Insights. Users can switch between modes, enabling them to test out new innovations without disrupting their existing Insights deployment."
This is the start of Red Hat Summit with the theme this year being "The Power of Participation", so it opened with a keynote by CEO Jim Whitehurst the resonated well on this theme. What better way to illustrate that than a keynote marriage
Red Hat President and EVP Paul Cormier got his one-day marriage license to perform the ceremony, and of course Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst was the ring bearer. The new married couple are Texans Shannon Montague an American Sign Language interpreter and Matt Hargrave (@hargrizzel on Twitter), senior Linux engineer at GM Financial And Hargrave really loves Red Hat (and Shannon too of course).
"Pushing a commit to github isn't the same as committing to a life partner, there is no forking this project," Cormier said as he presided over the ceremony on the Red Hat Summit stage.