Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 beta Released
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercial Linux distribution with a history of more than ten years (initially released in 2000). It often uses on mainframes and supercomputers in addition to ordinary PCs and general servers. The excellent stability makes it widely used in many infrastructure-level servers. It provides support for multiple architectures such as the 64-bit ARM, x86/x86_64, Power PC, and IBM z Systems. Red Hat uses strict trademarked rules to limit the free redistribution of its officially supported version of RHEL, but RHEL’s source code still provided free of charge. Third-party derivative versions can be built upon the removal of non-free components such as Red Hat trademarks, such as community-supported commercial forks such as CentOS and Scientific Linux, as well as Oracle Linux.
The RHEL team announced the release of the RHEL 8.5 beta.
Changelog
RHEL 8.5 Beta continues this tradition with a number of management features and system roles to help deploy services, manage systems and assess security risks.
System roles
RHEL system roles use Ansible roles and modules to configure, automate and manage services on RHEL. Several new or enhanced system roles for popular workloads on RHEL are being released or updated alongside RHEL 8.5 Beta, including:
RHEL system role for Microsoft SQL Server: Allows IT administrators and DBAs to more quickly install, configure and tune SQL Server in an automated fashion.
RHEL system role for VPN: Reduces the time to configure VPN tunnels and reduces risk of misconfiguration or use of non-recommended settings. Also supports host-to-host and mesh VPN configurations.
RHEL system role for Postfix: In tech preview for some time, the RHEL system role for Postfix is fully supported with RHEL 8.5. It enables administrators to skip manual configuration of Postfix, automating how you install, configure, and start the server, as well as specify custom settings to better control how Postfix works in your environment.
RHEL system role for timesync: Uses a new Network Time Security (NTS) option as part of the existing timesync system role.
RHEL system role for Storage: Adds support for LVM (Logical Volume Manager) VDO (Virtual Data Optimizer) volumes and volume sizes that can be expressed as a percentage of the pool’s total size.
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