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Here's a short video about what Red Hatters are saying about RHEL 7 beta, the next-generation of the world’s leading Linux platform. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=n8cbR2AtjAQ It can also be seen on the RHEL blog for SysAdmins: rhelblog.redhat.com.

In October, we had a survey on which Software Collection components you are using or plan to use. This also included a placeholder for you to add your requests for future component additions. We've had good input thus far, but we're looking for more input on your collection requests. If you've not already done so, please fill out the form below (or follow this link) and let us know which components you're using. And while you're at it, tell us...

Repost from Red Hat Enterprise Linux Blog. "In the coming weeks, we’ll explore the inner workings of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta – what makes it tick and how it will make your organization tick better. But for now, read all about what the next generation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 will entail here – better yet, try it out for yourself, and enter a drawing to win $500 by telling us what interests you most."

As you probably saw, we announced the availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta on the 11th of December. Would you like to get more involved in the Beta? Well, we have spun up a special program (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta: Partner Early Access Program (hence we normally just call it the "PEAP" :) ) for partners who are interested and excited about working with the Beta and sharing their feedback. We will be staffing a...

This is part 1 of a 2-part article about Advanced Integration with RHEV-M. Background At CloudOpen Europe 2013, in Edinburgh, I presented a talk about advanced integration with the oVirt engine. This technical article is covering the contents of this session. RHEV-M is a Large scale, centralized management for server and desktop virtualization. It is based on leading performance, scalability and security infrastructure technologies, focusing on KVM for best integration/performance. It provides an alternative to Center/vSphere, providing end-to-end IaaS platform...

Be sure to follow this new addition to the Red Hat blogosphere at: rhelblog.redhat.com. You can expect to see a great series of technical articles here.

Announcing OpenShift Enterprise 2.0 | OpenShift by Red Hat. In case you missed this last week - Red Hat Software Collections are becoming cartridges in OpenShift. " Cartridge Upgrades: As a leader in both operating system development and middleware solutions, Red Hat is in a unique position to provide some amazing content to PaaS users, which are integrated as OpenShift Cartridges. With the advent of the Red Hat Software Collections we are now able to bring Node.js to our OpenShift...

Photo by seeweb Countless products uses XML files, whether it is for data persistence, serialization or mere configuration. This is even more true when it comes to the Red Hat middleware portfolio, the JBoss projects having always been keen on using this format for configuration files - on top of the ones specified by JEE such as the famous (or infamous ?) web.xml. While the XML format has some definitive qualities, it is not the easiest format to parse, and...

Introduction Hi, I'm Steve, a member of the Inception team at Red Hat. The Inception team was pulled from different parts of IT to foster DevOps culture in Red Hat. Though we've only been a team for a little over a month, we've been trying to do some early projects to make everyone's lives easier.l We spent quite a bit of time in our early meetings identifying pain points in the current processes. We talked with a few developers, ops...

Whether you're new to developing on RHEL or have been doing it a while, you may get some use from this RHEL Developer Getting Started guide. Think of this as a large "table of contents" for all things developing on RHEL. It walks you through available developer tools and resources, provides a brief description for each, and gives one or more pointers for more information. Download the document here or peruse this file and other resources at developer.redhat.com/RHEL. Let us...

So, yeah, it was in beta testing, but now it's generally available! See the recent Red Hat press release. If you use virtualization in your development (e.g. spinning up VMs for projects), you might find the ability to change proc counts while the guest is running useful. RHEL 6.5 virtualization also adds direct integration with GlusterFS / Red Hat Storage in case you want to play with that in a virtualized test environment. Dynamic storage is definitely getting interesting and...

This is part 3 of a three part article on Continuous Integration Strategies: Simplifying application development on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® SOFTWARE COLLECTIONS The testing environment requirements are simplified somewhat if your software is built against a Red Hat Software Collection (RHSCL). Red Hat Software Collections provide three primary features: the ability to have multiple versions of software on one OS, certainty that the software is the same across versions of the OS, and the option to refresh components more...

Red Hat Developer Toolset v2.0 was released earlier this year and has received some great feedback from developers, which is always great to hear. But perhaps you'd like to see Red Hat Developer Toolset in action rather than reading about it. If so, here's a recording of a live demo showing you some of the great new features, including the option to create and deploy your C++ application to Red Hat OpenShift from right within the Eclipse IDE. In addition...

This is part 2 of a three part article on Continuous Integration Strategies: Simplifying application development on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® KEY GOALS Within a Continuous Integration environment there are some key features that are required to encourage an effective process. SOURCE CODE REPOSITORY—JUST THE ONE For the effective operation of CI, it’s essential that all project source code and build components are maintained in a single repository. The repository must contain not just the source code, but all the...

Background At JUDCon 2013 in Boston, Scott Cranton and I presented a talk entitled Resilient Enterprise Messaging with Fuse & Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This technical article is the follow-up work from that presentation. JBoss A-MQ is built on ActiveMQ which is a robust messaging platform that supports STOMP, JMS, AMQP and modern principals in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM). It's built from the ground up to be loosely coupled and asynchronous in nature. This provides ActiveMQ with native high availability...

This is part 1 of a new three-part article about Continuous Integration Strategies. We hope you enjoy it! EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Continuous Integration (CI) offers a method of avoiding the integration issues that typically occur when there are extended periods between developers checking in working copies of code. However, the technique also offers significant benefits where an application is designed to run on multiple versions of a platform and the application and platform are changing. In both cases, Continuous Integration facilitates...

Recent Red Hat Developer Blog articles have explained what Software Collections are, what they're good for, and how you can leverage them to easily enhance your development environment leveraging the latest and greatest versions of your favorite programming languages and relational database backends. But the software collection packages available for each language comprise only a subset of what is available — usually the core and some popular additions. Until that day when repositories have sprung up with all the additional...

I've recently released a tool called vm-truck-loader to automate virtual machine creation with VMware vCenter. Using a simple CSV file, and leveraging the API exposed by vCenter, this Java based command line tool enables you to design a fully automated deployment process, and can be a key to implement a proper Standard Operating Environment around vCenter. In this regard, I thought I'd do a quick entry on this blog, to briefly describe what the tool can do. Instrumenting virtual machine...

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, many of you have read Slavek's prior articles on software collections - now you can hear him talk! Slavek, from Red Hat's engineering team that brings us software collections, is an excellent presenter having spoken about collections numerous times at the Red Hat Summit. If you have questions about how to use collections, attend today's webinar. Title: Deep dive into Red Hat Software Collections Software Collections are the technology behind Red Hat®...

Interested in DevOps but not sure where to start? How about getting started in 3 steps? Check out this insightful Dr. Dobb's article by Langdon White, co-blogger and developer evangelist, and Robyn Bergeron, Fedora Project Leader. "DevOps need not be a top-down mandate to succeed. With these steps, developers and operations staff can lead the way implementing DevOps techniques and later show the organizational benefits to management." Enjoy the article - read it here ! We're beginning to assemble some...

It's another busy week for Langdon and me. First, and closer to home, we're sponsoring this week's Boston Python meet-up where the topic is "Helper Languages" and where the following will be covered: SQL, CSS+HTML, and Regexes. Find Langdon and say 'hello'. Second, I'm in Germany this week as part of Red Hat's sponsorship at EclipseCon Europe in Ludwigsburg, Germany (just north of Stuttgart). Please stop by our table and attend this session by Alexander Kurtakov of Red Hat, "...

An update of this article can be found here. My team here at Red Hat maintains the web server stack in Fedora and RHEL. One of the cool projects we've been working on recently is Software Collections. With RHEL we've always suffered from the tension between offering a stable OS platform to users, and trying to support the latest-and-greatest open source software. Software Collections is a great technology we're using to address that tension. Remi Collet has blogged about the...

Many of you have read Slavek's prior articles on software collections - now you can hear him talk! Slavek, from Red Hat's engineering team that brings us software collections, is an excellent presenter having spoken about collections numerous times at the Red Hat Summit. If you have questions about how to use collections, this October 31 webinar is your chance. Title: Deep dive into Red Hat Software Collections Software Collections are the technology behind Red Hat® Software Collections and Developer...