The Linux OS for every enterprise, cloud, and workload

May 7, 2019 15:30 GMT  ·  By

Red Hat announced today the general availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 operating system series, a major update to its powerful, enterprise-ready Linux-based operating system for cloud environments and enterprise IT.

Coming almost five years after the release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 series, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 series is now available with powerful new features and optimizations that lets you run it on any environment and supports any workload. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 lives up to its name as the world's leading enterprise Linux-based operating system, meeting the unique technology needs of evolving enterprises.

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is the operating system redesigned for the hybrid cloud era and built to support the workloads and operations that stretch from enterprise datacenters to multiple public clouds," says Red Hat. "From Linux containers and hybrid cloud to DevOps and artificial intelligence (AI), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is built to not just support enterprise IT in the hybrid cloud, but to help these new technology strategies thrive."

Here's what's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 comes with lots of great new features for the hybrid cloud era and the enterprise world, including the Red Hat Smart Management add-on for to configuring, managing, patching, and provisioning Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 deployments across the hybrid cloud, as well as Application Streams, which consists of fast-moving frameworks, programming languages, and developer tools that are frequently updated.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 also brings several improvements administration and management areas to make it more accessible to new systems administrators, Windows administrators, as well as Linux beginners with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Roles for automating complex tasks and Red Hat Enterprise Linux web console for managing and monitoring the health of your Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.

On the security side of things, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 ships with built-in support for the OpenSSL 1.1.1 and TLS 1.3 cryptographic standards. It also brings full support for the Red Hat container toolkit for creating, running, and sharing containerized apps, improvements to support for ARM and POWER architectures, SAP solutions, and real-time applications, as well as support for the Red Hat hybrid cloud infrastructure.