Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 adds AI-powered management

Red Hat has introduced Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, featuring Lightspeed, an AI-powered service for building, deploying, and managing Red Hat’s Linux using simplified commands.

Available through the Red Hat Customer Portal, RHEL 10 was unveiled May 20.

Inclusion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed addresses a critical skills gap in Linux administration, Red Hat said. Integrating generative AI directly into the platform helps offer context-aware guidance and actionable recommendations through a natural language interface. Users are assisted with tasks from troubleshooting common issues to best practices for managing complex IT estates, according to Red Hat. As a result, both newer and experienced IT professionals can manage vast RHEL environments with greater efficiency by bringing AI-powered help to the RHEL 10 command line, the company said.

Also with the new RHEL release, RHEL 10 is the first enterprise Linux distribution to integrate Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance for post-quantum cryptography, Red Hat said. This support equips organizations to better defend against future “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks and meet evolving regulatory requirements. Quantum-resistant algorithms are incorporated to mitigate risk of decryption of currently harvested data and post-quantum signature schemes.

Other capabilities in RHEL 10 include the following:

• Image mode offers a consistent approach to building and managing the operating system using container technologies.
• For the hybrid cloud, pre-tuned RHEL images can run across, AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
• The IT toolkit can be extended via the Red Hat Enterprise extensions repository, where community-supported software such as Podman Desktop can be discovered.
• Users can benefit from partner-validated solutions built on advanced hardware for AI and other demanding workloads.
• An upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux Security Select Add-On will offer the ability to request fixes for as many as 10 specific common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) annually.