UPDATED 15:12 EDT / JULY 12 2021

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Red Hat Insights gets OpenShift and Ansible friendly

Insights is among the Red Hat Inc. products that is seeing expansion and new development emphasis, according to disclosures made at the recent Red Hat Summit event.

The hybrid cloud-oriented, analytics product creates visibility so users can optimize security and get better performance for the Red Hat enterprise solutions. It now includes OpenShift and Red Hat Ansible platform support. Red Hat OpenShift is a Kubernetes distribution, and Ansible is an automation framework.

“Historically, it was for Red Hat Enterprise Linux — RHEL. We’ve now expanded it,” said Joe Fitzgerald (pictured right), vice president and general manager of the Management Business Unit at Red Hat.

Fitzgerald and Dave Lindquist (pictured left), general manager and VP of engineering for hybrid cloud management at Red Hat, spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during Red Hat Summit. They discussed scaling operatins, data curation and how Insights helps. (* Disclosure below.)

How Insights came about and curation

Sustaining high service levels, including of security and compliance, is among the reasons for the new and expanded development of the Insights product.

“Understand when something’s gone wrong, or when an update is needed, or when a configuration has drifted is increasingly critical in a hybrid cloud environment,” Lindquist said.

Increased scaling of operations along with being selective about what data is used for analytics are considerations behind the way Insights was been developed.

“There is a point where you can’t ship all the data everywhere,” Fitzgerald said. “If you think about logs and metrics and all the data, it’s too heavyweight.” So, choosing the right data for purpose becomes important.

Curating the data is how one does it, according to Lindquist, who added that policy-controlled data could stay within the environment — it’s sensitive, after all. But that by selecting alerts or information relevant to configurations, say, only sending that to Insight is more efficient.

“We’re not moving huge quantities of data from every system to Red Hat in order to pour through it,” Fitzgerald said. “We are very selectively moving certain kinds of data for very specific purposes.”

Partner offerings

More product improvements include Advanced Cluster Management, originally introduced last year. But it will include more advanced integration with Ansible new for this year. That integration will be good for partners, according to Lindquist.

“It’s really opened up how quickly partner offerings can be integrated into the OpenShift environment at scale,” he said. The security and service management spaces are two areas “where we can enforce the use of certain security tools on the on the clusters themselves,” for example.

And where are things headed for next year? The positive from the COVID disaster has been that digitization and modernization have been escalating across industries during the period.

“And that is really teaching all of us a lot about the importance of: how do you start managing and running this at scale, and securing this at scale? I think what we’ll see coming out of this is just that much more effort, open ecosystems. How do you really bring together data across Insights? How do you bring in increasing the amount of analytics [with] AI to now turn that data into information that you can respond with,” Lindquist concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Red Hat Summit. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Red Hat Summit. Neither Red Hat Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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