Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the leading Linux server operating system used by enterprises across the Fortune 500. One reason enterprises choose Red Hat as the strategic provider of their operating system infrastructure is because Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the thing that stays the same so that everything else can be different. Enterprise customers need a more secure, stable operating system but they also need to allow developers to be agile and use the latest packages and tooling. Red Hat recognises this balance of stability versus innovation.

A Red Hat subscription provides the latest enterprise-ready software from Red Hat, expert knowledge, product security, and technical support from trusted engineers making software the open source way. Below are just 10 (of the many) benefits included as part of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription, that all enterprise customers should be aware of in order to manage stability and innovation within their organisation, knowing they are supported by Red Hat:

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Broad ecosystem of supported hardware platforms and ISVs. Customers often require solutions that go beyond the capabilities of a single vendor and rely on each vendor’s complementary strengths to access innovation, minimize costs, maximize efficiency, avoid proprietary lock-in and deliver business needs.



Red Hat engineers collaborate with a global ecosystem of partners to test, support, and certify third party solutions to perform with Red Hat technologies. The Customer Portal provides access to an expansive catalog of certified hardware (eg CISCO, Dell, EMC and HPE), software (eg Oracle, Symantec and Veritas), cloud services (eg AWS, Fujitsu, Microsoft and Rackspace), and container images, providing greater peace of mind that your multivendor environment is stable and supported.



For details, see: Products and services tested, supported, and certified to perform with Red Hat technologies, and view supported container images in the Red Hat Container Catalog. Specialised functions and features. Along with an enterprise grade operating system, there are a number of additional functions and features which are included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Some examples can be found below: SELinux. Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is an implementation of a Mandatory Access Control mechanism in the Linux kernel which provides an additional layer of security, which checks for allowed operations after standard discretionary access controls are checked. Enabling SELinux helps prevent malicious or poorly written programs from doing harm to the overall system. For more information, see: SELinux User Guide. Firewall. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 provides firewall services through the firewalld service which is enabled by default. System administrators can manage services and zones to enhance network security within the environment natively through Linux tools. More info can be found at: Guide to using firewalld in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Identity Management. Red Hat Identity Management (IdM) provides a centralized and unified way to manage identity stores, authentication, authorization and other policies in a Linux-based domain. IdM can significantly reduce the administrative overhead of managing different services individually and using different tools on different machines. IdM can integrate with Active Directory to provide organisation-wide authentication services. More information is available here: Identify Management on Red Hat Enterprise Linux7. KVM. Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) provides the support to create, run, and manage a limited number of virtual machines and is included by default in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. More information can be found here: Getting Started with Red Hat Virtualization and Virtualization limits for Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM . Cockpit. Cockpit is a user-friendly web-based interface for administering servers. It allows monitoring system resources and adjusting configuration with ease. The Cockpit dashboard will show system based resources such as Networking, user accounts, systemd services, subscriptions, SELinux details and diagnostic reports. See: Cockpit Documentation.

BONUS: Have you heard about the Red Hat Developer Program that provides a no cost developer subscription for individual developer use? Red Hat Software Collections is also available for no-cost for developer use as well as Red Hat Developer Toolset.

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