More than meets the eye: Behind the scenes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (Part 3)

More than meets the eye: Behind the scenes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (Part 3) 2023 (18 months until Summit 2025) 2024 (12 months until Summit 2025) More like this Alliander modernises its electricity grid with Red Hat for long-term reliability in balance with rapid innovation Ping command basics for testing and troubleshooting OS Wars_part 1 | Command Line Heroes OS Wars_part 2: Rise of Linux | Command Line Heroes Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share This series takes a look at the people and planning that went into building and releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. From the earliest conceptual stages to the launch at Red Hat Summit 2025, we’ll hear firsthand accounts of how RHEL 10 came into being. Part 1 | Part 2 In our previous installment of the story of how Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 came to be, we learned about a new approach to building the platform. In part 3, the team focuses on the delicate balancing act of keeping thousands of moving parts in sync while features like image mode and RHEL Lightspeed (and the stories we’ll tell about them) start to take shape. Mike McGrath, vice president, Core Platforms Engineering This is when things really start to kick into overdrive. The big thing that we watch for internally is what we call the compose. The compose is basically a nightly—or roughly, it could be a few times a day—build of the latest and greatest in RHEL. That’s what I always look to to see how things are going. Major Hayden, senior principal software engineer It’s kind of like a Jenga tower where all the pieces are slightly different sizes. And so you may look at it and say, ‘Well, my piece is really small. You can poke this thing out and nothing will fall. ’ And everyone around you is saying, ‘I believe you, but we’re going to have to check.