Pre-upgrades and Closing | Modernizing RHEL Management 10

Here we are at the finale. Over ten episodes we went from “what is Insights” to building, patching, securing, and right-sizing systems, and today John showed off two features that landed just in time: inventory groups and the pre-upgrade analysis task. It felt like the right way to close things out, with fresh capabilities and a look back at everything we covered.

A few things worth carrying away from this one:

• Inventory groups finally tie access to sets of systems. John grouped hosts and scoped a user to just those, which immediately reminded me of a federal contract where only one team could touch the financial systems. This is a first release, so no nesting yet, but it is a big step.
• The task service runs a Leapp pre-upgrade analysis for you. Before moving our RHEL 8 image to RHEL 9, it flagged inhibitors and potential problems, including that our older Postgres would need a workload upgrade too. It runs at scale across many systems, which is exactly when you need it.
• Insights is included, and it moves fast. I said it every episode and I will say it once more: all of this ships with your RHEL subscription at no extra cost, and preview mode lets you kick the tires on what is coming next.

That wraps the miniseries. Huge thanks to John Spinks, and if you have not tried Insights yet, this is your sign to go register a system and take a look.