Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Technical overview
Presenter’s Name Presenter’s Name
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RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 8 CONFIDENTIAL Designator
To deliver business advantages today,
organizations are shifting IT from
traditional infrastructure operations
and are focusing on service delivery.
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RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 8 CONFIDENTIAL Designator
Build your future on a stable, high-performing
platform that can scale to meet the needs of
your organization today and tomorrow.
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RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 8 CONFIDENTIAL Designator
At a glance
KERNEL VERSION 4.18+
SYSTEM COMPILER GCC 8.2, LLVM 6.0
Intel/AMD 64-bit, IBM Power LE,
HARDWARE ARCHITECTURES
IBM z Systems, ARM 64-bit
DEFAULT FILE SYSTEM XFS
PACKAGE MANAGEMENT Yum v4
TIME SYNCHRONIZATION Chrony
NETWORKING NetworkManager
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Developers need access
to the latest tools.
Operations needs to know
those are stable and supported.
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Faster time to “Hello World”
Ability to plan with confidence Latest stable tools
Remove uncertainty from your platforms Combine open source innovation
with enterprise reliability
Simpler deployment options
Use standardized platforms for
any environments
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Predictable updates
3 years 6 months 2 phases
Major releases Minor updates Support life cycle
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Application streams
Time of support More choice
Offers versions of the open source tools
PostgreSQL 12 stream and frameworks developers need
PostgreSQL 10 stream Newer versions
Provides access to newer versions as
PostgreSQL 9.6 stream they stabilize
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 8 Simpler access
Maintains standard locations for tools
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
and libraries
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Simplified access to software
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 repositories
extras rhscl dotnet devtools supplementary optional
server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 repositories
appstream supplementary codeready-builder
baseos
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The newest yum package manager: version 4
metadata
New technology
rpm rpm rpm Maintains the same experience while
adding new tools
rpm rpm rpm
Better dependency management
Repository Offers faster resolution and easier
minimization of what's installed
yum Stable API
Provides new application programming
interface (API) for extending yum that
will progress into the future
rpm rpm rpm
system
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The future of
infrastructure is hybrid,
multicloud
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Faster and more consistent
delivery in any deployment
Improve automation Gain rapid intelligence
Automation expertise from the Information that helps you focus on
engineers who wrote the platform business initiatives, not fighting fires
Maintain standards
Simple common machine images
for any environment
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Gain operating intelligence
Analyze Identify Prioritize Resolve
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Detect and fix issues with Red Hat Insights
Proactive advice
Identification of issues before they
become problems
Continuous assessment
Real-world results to help find new risks
Simpler remediations
Tailored results at the host level
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Create images for all your environments with image builder
Bare metal Single source
Lets you create gold images for any environment from
the same blueprint increasing stability and consistency
Hypervisors Any footprint
Supports public cloud, private cloud, enterprise
hypervisors, and bare metal
Simple interface
Blueprint Public clouds
Provides web-based view within the web console for
selecting packages and creating blueprints
Private clouds
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Speed automation creation with system roles
timesync Common automation
Manage multiple versions of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux from a
network
single role
SELinux
Reduced rework
Import provided roles to eliminate
webserver task creation in playbooks
dbserver Easy switching of providers
Change between default and optional
tools quickly and safely
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Enterprise workloads
require a trusted set of
partners
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Trusted partner
Speed integration with common platforms Innovate faster
Ease management and integration of your Get to your next big thing without
business applications building ours
Focus on your business
We focus on support and engineering
so you don’t have to
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Optimized experiences for mission-critical databases
● Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the ● Red Hat Enterprise Linux is 1 of only 2
reference platform for SQL Server on certified Linux distributions
Linux
● More than 20 years of Red Hat and SAP
● Benchmark-breaking performance joint engineering collaboration
● Fast deployment and portability ● Exceptional performance and scalability
via containers —the largest SAP install in the world runs
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Hardware partner ecosystem
SILICON OEMS IHVS
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Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Providers
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Power the adoption
of containers
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Containers are Linux
Application binaries
Build
Run
Application dependencies
CONTAINERS
SELinux
Seccomp
Cgroups
Namespaces
CPU Memory Storage Network
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Powering the adoption of containerized workloads
TRADITIONAL DEVELOPMENT CLOUD-NATIVE
Find Run Build Share Integrate Deploy
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat OpenShift®
Quay
(Podman/Buildah/Skopeo) (Kubernetes)
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Manage containers with Podman
Fast and lightweight
No daemons required
Kernel
Advanced namespace isolation
RunC Rootless operations for container run
and build
Podman
Open standards compliant
Creates and maintains any standard
Open Containers Initiative (OCI)
-compliant containers and pods
Images
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Create images with Buildah
Application layer
More control
Scriptable tooling for fine-grained
Java™ runtime layer
image control, and maximum control
starting from base or scratch images
OS update layer
Java runtime and Minimization of images
Base Red Hat dependencies, and Elimination of unneeded dependencies
Enterprise Linux application by using host-based tools
From base, multilayer From scratch, single layer
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Inspect and transport images with Skopeo
Inspect images remotely
Examine image metadata without needing to download
Image registry Image registry Publish and transfer images
Copy images from registries to hosts or directly
between registries
SKOPEO
Sign and verify images
Supports GPG key signing on publish
Metadata signature Image repository
Host
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New capabilities can’t
come at the expense
of security
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A highly secure platform
Latest protocol support
Including TLS 1.3 via OpenSSL 1.1.1
DESIGN BUILD
Hardened code
Including PIE and RELRO binaries and code analysis
Security in our pipelines
policy, process,
and procedures Integrated identity management
ADAPT RUN As a stand-alone provider or trusted member of an
Active Directory, with expanded integrations to tools
like the web console
MANAGE Updated tools
Including the LUKS v2 on-disk format for encryption
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Configuring systemwide cryptographic policies
Central configuration
Set acceptable algorithms from a
single tool
Legacy httpd
Encryption Secured
Client Improved consistency
Default algorithm OpenSSL communications
Covers multiple cryptographic
providers and consumers like TLS,
Future
kerberos, and Java
Built-in policies
Including legacy systems requiring
64-bit security and FIPS allowed or
approved algorithms
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Recording user terminal sessions
Audit activities
Create a record of actions taken for
review against security policies
Create visual guides
Build run books and training materials
with demonstrations
Record and play back
Logged via standard channels with
multiple playback options
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Improved firewall management with nftables
Consolidated filtering
Supports IPv4, IPv6, ARP, and Bridge
filtering in a single tool
Simpler rule creation
Multiple matches and actions reduce the
number of rules required
Improved tracing
Provides easier debugging and
verification of actions taken on any packet
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Improved service
delivery brings Linux
to more new users
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Remote single-system views in the web console
Browser-based interface
Offers remotely accessible user interface
using host security mechanisms
Consolidated view
Provides single view of tasks to speed
understanding and completion
Standard management tools
Uses system tools to change state, not
a separate workflow
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New in the web console
Virtual machines
Create and manage virtual machines
Network-bound disk encryption
Enroll disks with Tang server and
manage LUKS keys
Single sign-on configuration
Automatically configure when
joining a domain
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Gain new capabilities
while giving up nothing
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In-place upgrades for your systems
Applications
Reduced migrations
Analyze systems to determine if upgrading in
7 8 place can avoid a costly migration
Easy rollback options
Upgrade framework Combine with bootable LVM snapshots for safety
Improved framework
Get better analysis and a simplified process with
a more extensible framework
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Can I upgrade this host?
ANALYZE CHECK
PICK
OUTPUT
CANDIDATE RUN LEAPP
SERVER
REBOOT TO FINISH
UPGRADE
CREATE BOOTABLE
LVM SNAPSHOT UPGRADE
COMPLETE
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