How Red Hat can support your journey to a standard operating environment

How Red Hat can support your journey to a standard operating environment Consistency across the hybrid cloud Image builder Image mode for RHEL Benefits Red Hat Identity Management Provisioning, patching, and content management Red Hat Insights Automation Standardize your environment Red Hat Product Security About the author Alessandro Rossi More like this Blog post Blog post Original podcast Original podcast Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share Standardizing your company’s operating environment starts with the operating system (OS), but it doesn’t end there. As the number of systems grows, configurations drift, maintenance becomes repetitive, and updates can quickly turn into a headache. At Red Hat, we support your standardization journey by providing you with what you need to deliver a robust, coherent, and integrated solution for your standard operating environment. In this post, I explore the key areas you should take into account along your standardization journey, and how these can be simplified using Red Hat technologies, products, and services. Over time, daily activities on systems can lead to configuration drifts, issues with running workloads and a potential exposure to threats. The best way to start a standardization journey is to have a consistent baseline that your whole infrastructure can rely on, whether it's on bare metal, hypervisors, or the cloud. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) offers two different ways to start building installation images that are hardened, pre-configured with the tools you need, and most of all, that are repeatable over time. Included in RHEL, and also available in the Red Hat Insights service, image builder allows you to define a blueprint of an operating system image. Your image can contain as many customizations as you need, including users, firewall rules, repositories, and which packages to include. You can apply security profiles to harden your image, and much more. Image builder can generate installation media (such as an ISO, cloud provider image, hypervisor image, and so on) that can be deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. Based on the open source bootc project , image mode introduces a new way to build and manage RHEL systems at scale.