https://itguyeric.com/tags/red-hat/Recent content in Red Hat on Eric The IT GuyHugoen-USWed, 08 Oct 2025 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/tuxcare-vs-competitors/Wed, 08 Oct 2025 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/tuxcare-vs-competitors/I wrote this for TuxCare: a fact-based comparison of TES against Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, and Oracle across pricing, rebootless patching, and compliance.https://itguyeric.com/blog/itguyshow-ep14-sysadmin-nate-lager/Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/itguyshow-ep14-sysadmin-nate-lager/A wide-ranging chat with Nate Lager about the sysadmin life, from burnout and bash scripts to automation and authenticity.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep82-noah-chelliah/Wed, 05 Mar 2025 09:00:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep82-noah-chelliah/A companion to RHEL Presents episode 82, where Nate and I talk with Noah Chelliah about community, careers, and getting people on-ramped into open source.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep83-ansible-deploy/Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:00:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep83-ansible-deploy/In my last episode as host, Brian and I bring on three guests to demo a full GitOps pipeline deploying and testing RHEL workloads on Azure with Ansible Automation Platform.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep81-podman-ai-lab/Thu, 08 Aug 2024 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep81-podman-ai-lab/Brian Smith and I talk with Cedric Clyburn and the Podman Desktop team about the AI Lab extension, which downloads, serves, and builds with LLMs on your own laptop.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep80-yubico/Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:00:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep80-yubico/Nate Lager and I sit down with Yubico’s Jonathan Hanlon and Dave Pham to add FIDO passkeys to RHEL users and log in with a YubiKey through Identity Manager.https://itguyeric.com/blog/itguyshow-ep03-open-ai/Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/itguyshow-ep03-open-ai/JJ Asghar of IBM makes the case for open, transparent AI development and introduces the InstructLab project.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep78-image-mode/Thu, 16 May 2024 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep78-image-mode/Ben Brouillard and Matt Micene join me for a first look at image mode for RHEL, building and shipping the operating system with container tooling and bootc.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep77-satellite/Thu, 02 May 2024 09:00:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep77-satellite/Pete Sackett joins Brian and me to break down Red Hat Satellite, from patching and life cycle to content management, and how far it has come since version 5.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep75-subscriptions/Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:00:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep75-subscriptions/Rich Dorito joins Brian and me to explain what a Red Hat subscription actually is, how to access trials, and why the whole experience got so much cleaner.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep74-stratis/Thu, 21 Mar 2024 09:00:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep74-stratis/Bob Hanlon and Billy Holmes join Brian and me to unpack Stratis on RHEL, why it is a storage management tool and not a file system, and how it grew up.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep73-solutions-architect/Thu, 07 Mar 2024 09:00:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep73-solutions-architect/Chuck Marshall joins Brian and me to walk through what an account solution architect really does day to day across RHEL, Ansible, and OpenShift.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep71-red-hat-services/Thu, 14 Dec 2023 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep71-red-hat-services/Brian and I sit down with Red Hat Services experts across platforms, middleware, and OpenShift to talk about how consulting helps you get off the ground.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep70-convert2rhel-reinvent/Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:00:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep70-convert2rhel-reinvent/Nate and I broadcast live from the AWS re:Invent show floor to talk Convert2RHEL, RHEL on AWS, and the buzz around the conference with guest Stu Miniman.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep69-event-driven-ansible/Thu, 16 Nov 2023 09:00:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep69-event-driven-ansible/Nuno Martins joins Brian and me to explain how Event-Driven Ansible listens for events and kicks off automation without a human in the loop.https://itguyeric.com/blog/whats-new-rhel-9-3-8-9/Wed, 15 Nov 2023 09:00:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/whats-new-rhel-9-3-8-9/The webinar walkthrough of RHEL 9.3 and 8.9: image builder improvements, security and compliance updates, identity management, and easier day-two management from the web console.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep68-rhel-development/Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep68-rhel-development/Mike McGrath and Gunnar Hellekson join us to explain how RHEL is developed, the upstream-first ethos, and why you can’t have RHEL without Fedora and CentOS Stream.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep67-compliant-images/Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:00:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep67-compliant-images/Terry Bowling, Amy Farley, and Mohit Goyal join us to show how Image Builder can bake compliance profiles right into your RHEL golden images.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep66-avassa-edge/Thu, 05 Oct 2023 09:00:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep66-avassa-edge/In this partner episode, Avassa’s Karl and Fredrik join us to define the edge and show how RHEL and Avassa work together to manage containers out there.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep65-idm/Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:00:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep65-idm/Nate Lager introduces Red Hat Identity Manager, the identity, permissions, and access layer that ships with RHEL, with demos and a zero trust framing.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep64-value-of-linux/Thu, 24 Aug 2023 09:00:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep64-value-of-linux/Randy Russell comes back for a bigger-picture conversation about why Linux matters, how open source shapes careers, and where Red Hat fits in the community.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep63-certification/Thu, 10 Aug 2023 09:00:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep63-certification/Randy Russell and Henry Main walk us through Red Hat’s certification path, why the exams are hands-on, and practical tips for passing the RHCSA and RHCE.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep62-flock/Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:00:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep62-flock/Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller joins us to unpack the Fedora and RHEL relationship, the community’s change process, and the return of Flock in person.https://itguyeric.com/blog/redhat-centos-eol/Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/redhat-centos-eol/I wrote this for the Red Hat blog: CentOS Linux 7 goes EOL on June 30, 2024, and here is why converting to RHEL is the most direct path off it.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep58-mike-mcgrath-linux-engineering/Wed, 17 May 2023 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep58-mike-mcgrath-linux-engineering/RHEL Presents 58 with Red Hat’s Mike McGrath on Linux engineering.https://itguyeric.com/blog/redhat-fastest-road-centos-rhel/Tue, 04 Apr 2023 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/redhat-fastest-road-centos-rhel/I wrote this for the Red Hat blog: the fastest supported way off CentOS Linux 7 before its June 2024 end of life, without a rip-and-replace.https://itguyeric.com/blog/into-the-terminal-ep24-connecting-with-red-hat/Thu, 05 May 2022 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/into-the-terminal-ep24-connecting-with-red-hat/Navigating the Customer Portal and knowledge base.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep35-tams/Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep35-tams/RHEL Presents 35 on the Technical Account Manager role at Red Hat.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep21-day-in-the-life/Thu, 23 Sep 2021 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep21-day-in-the-life/RHEL Presents 21 as a guest: what the solutions architect role really involves day to day, and how it blends deep tech with customer conversations.