RHEL 7.4 planned features and other news.

At the Red Hat annual summit the main planned features of RHEL 7.4 were disclosed.
You can find them in a dedicated page.
In addition, as of today, the RHEL 7.4 Beta has been released.

Also, new interesting Red Hat summit presentations were published this week:

• Practical SELinux: Writing Custom Application Policy,
• Security of Cryptography in RHEL,(I don’t know why this presentation doesn’t talk about the 1.0.2k OpenSSL upgrade planned in RHEL 7.4)
• Identity and Access Management: Choosing the right tool for the right job.

Similarly, new Red Hat summit videos were released:

• Mastering deployments with Kubernetes & OpenShift (64 min),
• Choosing the right storage for your OpenStack cloud (38 min),
• NVMe over Fabrics: High-performance SSDs networked over ethernet (48 min),
• Securing your container supply chain (30 min),
• Deploying Couchbase in Red Hat OpenShift with Kubernetes StatefulSets at Amadeus (46 min),
• MicroProfile: Optimizing Java EE for a microservices architecture (34 min),
• Monitoring Java application performance using Thermostat (48 min),
• Reactive systems with Eclipse Vert.x and Red Hat OpenShift (45 min).

Of particular interest for exam candidates two labs were published:

• Lab on Latest RHEL Capabilities,
• Lab on Container Security.

Finally, several technical articles were recently posted:

• Ten layers of container security,
• Deploying CloudForms at Scale,
• AWS and Red Hat – Digging a Little Deeper,
• Kubernetes deep dive: API Server – part 1,
• Auto Scaling,
• Best Cloud Tools for Infrastructure Automation,
• Breaking up the Container Monolith,
• CPU Utilization is Wrong,
• Truly Seemless Reloads with HAProxy – No more Hacks!
• Kubernetes: The smart person’s guide,
• It takes more than a Circuit Breaker to create a resilient application,
• Quick reference for the Foreman installation under CentOS 7,
• NetworkManager changes and improvements,
• Basic Best Practices for Securing LDAP and Active Directory with Red Hat,
• What’s new in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11?,
• Fighting Service Latency in Microservices with Kubernetes,
• Accelerate EDB Postgres Advanced Server with HPE Persistent Memory on HPE ProLiant servers,
• WannaCry Ransomware: Who It Affected and Why It Matters.

Happy reading, watching, and labbing!