Friday Five — April 3, 2026

Friday Five — April 3, 2026 Red Hat Enhances Enterprise Stability with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle, Premium Red Hat and Google Cloud Expand Collaboration to Accelerate Application Modernization and Cloud Migration with Red Hat OpenShift Science & Technology Review - Supercomputing in Sync Why we’re contributing llm-d to the CNCF: Standardizing the future of AI NAIRR, Red Hat, and open source help provide the control plane for AI research About the author Red Hat Corporate Communications More like this Red Hat and NVIDIA: Setting standards for high-performance AI inference Take your automation to the next level with Ansible Content Collections for Windows, Splunk, AIOps, MCP, and more Collaboration In Product Security | Compiler Keeping Track Of Vulnerabilities With CVEs | Compiler Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share Red Hat launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle Premium, offering a predictable 14-year life cycle for major releases. This new subscription simplifies support for mission-critical, change-averse workloads, providing organizations in highly regulated industries with greater operational certainty and long-term infrastructure stability. Learn more Red Hat and Google Cloud expanded their collaboration to accelerate application modernization. The update integrates Red Hat OpenShift into the Google Cloud console and introduces general availability for OpenShift Virtualization on Google Cloud, allowing customers to manage traditional VMs and containers on a single, unified platform. Learn more Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is utilizing Red Hat's expertise to power its Tri-Lab Operating System Stack (TOSS). By collaborating with Red Hat developers, the lab provides a stable, scalable, and secure Linux foundation across diverse supercomputing clusters, including the exascale-class El Capitan system. Learn more Red Hat contributed the llm-d project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to standardize distributed AI inference. By building a specialized data-plane orchestration layer for Kubernetes, Red Hat aims to make high-performance AI serving more portable, efficient, and vendor-neutral across the hybrid cloud. Learn more Red Hat is providing the open-source control plane for select National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) projects. By leveraging RHEL and OpenShift, researchers can maintain autonomous control over their data and experiments within shared environments, fostering collaborative innovation without compromising project security. Learn more Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments.