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Event-Driven Ansible is a powerful extension to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform that leverages the automation infrastructure to provide the ability to react to change or problems. In short, Event-Driven Ansible can trigger Ansible playbooks (or Ansible Automation Platform’s Job Templates) if a certain event is detected. In this article, we will provide a series…

Dumping traffic on a network interface is one of the most performed steps while debugging networking and connectivity issues. On Linux, tcpdump is probably the most common way to do this, but some use Wireshark too. Where does tcpdump get the packets from? Internally, both tcpdump and Wireshark use the Packet Capture (pcap) library. When…

Our latest Canonical website rebrand did not just bring the new Vanilla-based frontend, it also saw the introduction of Python Flask as the preferred web framework. Flask provides a good foundation for building new applications using the 12-factor methodology, effectively increasing our web team’s speed and efficiency in adding new features. Because our web team…

Red Hat Reaches Key Milestone in Push to Functional Safety Certification for Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating SystemFunctional safety certification of mixed criticality moves Red Hat closer to ISO 26262 compliance and further reinforces Linux as the path forward for software-defined vehicle innovation. Learn more AI use cases: Preparing for your first AI pilot projectWhen you…

As the virtualization space evolves, many customers need to update their traditional virtualization strategies. Organizations are choosing to adopt a virtualization strategy to avoid the rising costs of managing legacy systems and the inability to scale to meet business demands1. A feature of Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization allows users to run and…

A new alpha update to System76’s COSMIC desktop environment has arrived with a clutch of interactive improvements. This is the fifth alpha of the Rust-based DE since August 2024. More alphas will arrive each month until all the features planned to ship in the first stable release – or ‘epoch’, as System76 is calling them…

Raspberry Pi has today announced the launch of a Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB RAM. A engorged-memory model had been oft-rumoured since the launch of the raspberry Pi 5 in 2024 – and long-desired by fans of this particular single-board computer (SBC). The launch of the new Raspberry Pi CM5 late last year offers up…

Securing an event of the magnitude of AWS re:Invent—the Amazon Web Services annual conference in Las Vegas—is no small feat. The most recent event, in December, operated on the scale of a small city, spanning seven venues over twelve miles and nearly seven million square feet across the bustling Las Vegas Strip. Keeping all 60,000…