Access RHEL Subscriptions Trials & More | RHEL Presents Ep. 75

Episode 75 landed in the middle of release season and Summit prep, and my cohost Brian Smith and I were glad to step away from the slide decks to talk subscriptions. Our guest was Rich Dorito, team lead of the hybrid cloud subscription experience group, whose team is responsible for the subscription experience across all of Red Hat’s platforms. Rich has been at Red Hat close to fourteen years across solutions architecture, Satellite, and product management, and he’s spent the last several years making the way you buy and manage RHEL a lot less painful.

A few things worth carrying away from the conversation:

• A Red Hat subscription is access to software, services, and support, governed by a business model and time. Rich’s clean definition cuts through a lot of the confusion people carry into this topic.
• The subscription and system management experience has genuinely gotten easier. I’ve watched it change a lot over the years, and Rich’s team is the reason it’s moved toward something sane and clean rather than a maze.
• Trials are a real on-ramp, not a gotcha. The episode is built around helping you actually access RHEL, including trials, so you can get hands-on without guessing your way through the process.

If subscriptions have ever felt like the confusing part of using RHEL, this conversation is a helpful reset.