What's New in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 and 8.8

This one is a little different. Instead of our usual RHEL Presents livestream, I took a more webinar-style approach to cover what’s new in RHEL 9.2 and 8.8, and to spend a few minutes on where Red Hat Enterprise Linux is headed as a platform. Fair warning: it was a rough morning for my voice.

A few things worth carrying away from this one:

• We actually have a mission now. I talk about how a 21-year-old product finally wrote down its mission last year: RHEL is your source for safe and reliable Linux innovation that makes your workload successful. That last phrase is the point for me, we aren’t successful unless the things you run on top of RHEL are.
• This isn’t your grandfather’s enterprise Linux. I push back on the reputation RHEL has for being slow and crusty, and talk about being able to choose your own speed, taking that throttle and setting it where you need it.
• Innovation starts with how you build. I lean on tools like Image Builder and Ansible system roles as the way you stand up infrastructure from scratch, and treat RHEL as a genuine development platform rather than just something you install and forget.

If you want the hands-on goodness, it’s in the back half of the video. The top is me making the case for why any of this matters.