Why Should I Standardize on RHEL?

As a seasoned Linux admin, I can tell you that managing different environments across disparate systems and major versions just leads to a mess. Add cloud providers into the picture, where anyone with a corporate card can spin up whatever they want, and it becomes a nightmare. In this short piece I make the case for standardizing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to bring order to that chaos.

A few things worth carrying away from this one:

• Sprawl is a tax you’re already paying. When your public cloud, private cloud, bare metal, and VMs are all a little different, every task gets harder. Standardizing on one platform gets that time back.
• Resources aren’t infinite. We’re all asked to do more with less. Consistency across the fleet is what makes automation, collaboration, and a lower total cost of operations actually possible.
• RHEL doesn’t stand alone. Tools like Red Hat Insights, Satellite, and Ansible Automation Platform sit on top of that standard platform to monitor, manage, and automate the whole thing.

If you want to conquer distribution sprawl and take control of your infrastructure, standardizing is where it starts.