These are instead represented in a graphical interface by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Web Console. In order to simplify the user experience of the offering, RHEL 8 hides the sometimes convoluted looking sysadmin tasks.
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This allows developers to continue working with the software integral to their core infrastructure, while also keeping stable up-to-date software in place, distributed in a single operating system.Īpplication Streams are installed to the normal on-disk locations, but will now contain metadata that shows the user what is available in the stream and informs the them of its stability and if it’s the latest version two things that do not often mean the same thing, as recent Microsoft updates have showcased. In RHEL 8 Red Hat are including Application Streams as default, when using a particular software version it is locked in the flowing ‘stream’ of backwards compatible updates and fixes. Many enterprise software users tend to undertake ‘pinning’ which is the retaining of an existing version of software, sometimes done even when support and distribution have moved on, this of course leaves them in a vulnerable position as they will miss out on bug fixes and updates. This is done by creating multiple virtual repositories all of which are contained in the AppStreams. With the launch of RHEL 8 Red Hat are introducing Modularity which allows user to access alternative versions of software within the same physical repository. In previous RHEL versions if a user wished to look for alternative versions of software they would have looked in the Red Hat Software Collections (RHSCL) or Extras repositories. This lets RHEL 8 systems be run using only two repositories enabled. The Application Stream or AppStream repository, meanwhile, supplies all the applications a user may select to run, While the Supplemental repository is the source of software that requires special licensing. In RHEL 8 the main repository, BaseOS, is the main provider of the distribution of the system’s operation, be that a cloud instance or a virtual machine. “So being able to let a customer know that, hey, you might have that security fix that you haven’t applied over here or you might have an opportunity for a performance improvement over here or this configuration doesn’t look quite right you might want to take a look at that.”
“Now we have a tool for taking 15 years of support tickets and knowledge based articles, architectural expertise and technical expertise into being able to feed that back to our clients in the form of coaching.” Gunnar Hellekson, director of product management at Red Hat Enterprise commented in Boston that: “For me this is probably the most exciting part of the RHEL 8 release.” Red Hat Insights is also tasked with highlighting any security vulnerabilities. The user will be alerted to any potential issues with regards to stability or expiring licenses.
Insights predictive analytics will assess all components of your system’s infrastructure from the physical to the virtual, including cloud and containerised environments.
To mitigate these types of issues RHEL 8 comes with Red Hat Insights as standard, a predictive analytics offering that taps Red Hat developers’ understanding of open source software.