Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Technical overview

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To deliver business advantages today,

organizations are shifting IT from

traditional infrastructure operations

and are focusing on service delivery.

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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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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
reference platform for SQL Server on
Linux
● Benchmark-breaking performance
● Fast deployment and portability
via containers
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● Red Hat Enterprise Linux is 1 of only 2
certified Linux distributions
● More than 20 years of Red Hat and SAP
joint engineering collaboration
● Exceptional performance and scalability
—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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