RHEL8 Changes

Overview

While RHEL 7 was very different from RHEL 6 with the arrival of Systemd, Network Manager and Firewalld, RHEL 8 shouldn’t change habits too much.

After the upheaval caused by RHEL 7, RedHat did not want to perturb its customers again.

From the outside, few changes are visible: mainly the package management organization. However, when you start drilling, you will find many changes under the hood.

Remarks

Some features presented as new with RHEL 8 were already existing for some time on the most recent releases of RHEL 7 like:

• Container toolkit (buildah, podman, skopeo)
• Ansible System Roles
• Cockpit

RHEL 8 is now also supported on ARM 64-bit, IBM Power and IBM Z architectures.

Main Features

• Release Cadence
• yum/dnf
• Application Streams
• Container Toolkit
• Cockpit
• Systemd
• Security
• Session Recording
• Networking
• Identity
• Image Builder
• File Systems
• Ansible System Roles
• RedHat Insights
• Leapp
• First Benchmarks