Innovation and technology are not restricted to state-of-the-art design and sophisticated tools; they’re more about exploring the right answers to the world’s issues. Red Hat Summit, the renowned open-source tech spectacle where IT leaders and professionals collaborate and network is the ideal testimony to this.
This year, the summit is set to take place in Boston, Massachusetts from May 23 – May 25. This year’s edition allows the flexibility to select the topics that are most pertinent to your company’s needs while also selecting the appropriate tools needed to determine the future of open technology.
Red Hat Summit & Ansible Fest: 2 Events Under One Roof
This year, AnsibleFest will share the stage at the summit, which means you can witness the latest innovations in the fields of open source, automation, hybrid cloud, and edge along with interactive lab sessions and workshops.
The Red Hat Summit registration will grant you access to discussions regarding automation’s present and future as well as the chance to sample the whole Red Hat technology portfolio all in one place. In case you are wondering if Ansible Fest will be held separately later this year, the answer is no. So go ahead and explore new avenues, and connect with more peers and customers under the same roof.
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Red Hat Summit 2023: Why Should You Attend?
Participants can be a part of several activities, including interactive workshops and keynote sessions, networking, and more. Red Hat® Summit 2023, the IBM subsidiary’s annual conference, will provide you and your team with in-person opportunities to participate in talks, workshops, demos, laboratories, and training.
- Know how industry leaders and veterans deal with today’s biggest challenges. Connect and learn from tech experts, Red Hat customers, and partners and acquire insights while strengthening your network.
- Attend the workshops and tracks and equip yourselves with the skills necessary to shape the direction of open technology.
- With some hardcore brainstorming, you are sure to leave bursting with new concepts and motivation to advance your work, team, and career.
- Hands-on experience with new tools and developing in-demand skills. Explore the possibilities in the Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift at the Red Hat Developer booth.
The Red Hat Summit 2023 Session Catalogue
The Red Hat Summit 2023 session catalogue provides a quick and easy way to view summaries for more than 180 interesting breakout sessions tackling the most pressing enterprise technology concerns.
Edge, Linux containers, Ansible automation, open hybrid cloud infrastructure, security, DevOps, AI/ML, culture, and other current topics will be covered in sessions geared to different roles and degrees of experience.
Who Will Lead the Seminars and Sessions?
The seminars will be led by Red Hat experts, customers, partners, and community members, giving attendees the opportunity to learn about the latest product advancements and best practices from a variety of industries.
For a more personalised experience that focuses on the sessions you are most interested in, use the session catalogue tool and filter by topic, audience, product or service, industry and, technical skill.
Developer Experience – Workshops & Interactive Sessions to Attend
If you ardently follow developer tools and love to stay updated with the latest entrants, here are a few interactive workshops and sessions you’d love to be a part of.
Red Hat Developer Tools: The Overview
This session is centred on how Red Hat supports a ‘cloud-first approach to cloud-native development’ and it identifies with the multi-cloud and hybrid cloud challenges that developers face in the current times. The session featuring Red Hat Developer Parag Dave, Mohit Suman and Mithun Dhar will cover the following:
- The entire life cycle of development, including designing a new application, refining it, and enabling a security-focused software delivery pipeline.
- Containers, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift boost developer productivity.
- Integrated development environments (e.g., VS Code, IntelliJ, hosted), command-line interfaces (CLI), web UIs, and other tools that meet developers where they are.
- Hosted products that make it easy for developers to test and examine and iterate on their cloud-native applications.
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Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
Led by Red Hat’s Ryan Jarvinen, participants will learn how Backstage organises tools, services, documentation, and best practices into “golden paths” to simplify onboarding and daily development work.
Each participant will get a chance to build and deploy a 3-tier web application with the help of Red Hat products and technologies. With this, you will understand how all these technologies collaborate to support daily development tasks while also laying the groundwork for cloud-native development.
- Discover how Backstage tools may enable your team to mount scaffolding and apply best practices on top.
- View and modify source code in Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces, a VS Code-based web-based integrated development environment.
- Use GitOps to automate the build-test-deploy cycle and build-test pipeline modules once you iterate your application with new features and fixes.
Backstage’s Role in Structuring the Future of IDP
A developer portal can relieve the burden on developers’ minds and offer tools for onboarding both developers and apps, leading to quicker delivery at a lower cost.
Led by Red Hat’s Serena Chechile, attendees will be able to see how Red Hat supports an internal developer platform (IDP) and addresses and solves the issues faced by most developers today while also enhancing productivity.
Power Up your Developer Portal using Red Hat integrations
Discover technologies that make it easier to start using Backstage by lowering the entrance barrier and offering a wider software catalogue through a range of plug-ins and integrations.
Andrew Block and Tom Coufal from Red Hat will introduce these Backstage ecosystem expansion points in this session. They will start with Red Hat’s single sign-on solution, Red Hat Quay, and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes.
Dev Spaces on ROSA: Empowering Developers in a Regulated Enterprise Environment
A renowned UK bank required a developer environment that could be set up rapidly, adhere to source code security standards, interface with various developer tooling, and provide scalable developer support. And that’s how Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) came into being.
- Baljinder Kang from NatWest Group and Anton Giertli from Red Hat will discuss how they employed OpenShift Dev Spaces on ROSA and integrated developer tooling in this presentation.
- Ideal for businesses that wish to minimise administration workloads while streamlining developer trips.
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Focusing on Developer Experience at Delta Air Lines to fly high
This presentation will look at how Red Hat technologies are used by Delta Air Lines to improve the developer experience with a platform that satisfies stringent internal standards and the demands of a demanding industry while yet allowing developers the liberty they need to work at their best.
Red Hat’s Prakriti Koller, Eric Sauer, and Delta’s Brittany Doncaster will discuss:
- How they selected indicators that were committed to openness along the journey, focused on people and business outcomes
- OpenShift Dev Spaces’s role in enhancing Delta’s speed to market.
- Identifying the working practice that showed potential.
- Their learnings while collecting and automating measurement.
Other hands-on Labs and Workshops
The sessions below will explore topics like Quarkus, Kubernetes automation, GitOps, and others.
How GitOps Controls and Customizes OpenShift Clusters and Applications
Red Hat OpenShift GitOps, which is based on the Argo CD project, gives businesses the ability to develop GitOps-based continuous delivery (CD) processes to manage their OpenShift Container Platform instances and apps across multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments. The session will look at the advantages of GitOps and how to start your adoption path in this presentation.
- Evan Shortiss, Natale Vinto, and Ryan Jarvinen of Red Hat will explain how to manage and customize an OpenShift cluster using OpenShift GitOps.
- Additionally, participants will learn how to manage and deploy apps using Red Hat OpenShift GitOps, as well as how it can automatically detect and fix configuration drift between the desired configuration recorded in a Git repository and the actual state on their OpenShift cluster.
From zero to hero in Kubernetes-native Java
Over 16.5 million Java developers invest a lot of time in enhancing the performance of their applications for a range of cloud-based workloads, including web, mobile, AI/ML, and edge. What can pose a big challenge is adopting a new programming language or runtime over Java because of its incompatibility with Kubernetes.
- Hosted by Red Hat’s Daniel Oh, attendees will comprehend how programmers can construct a Java project from the ground up and then transform it into a Kubernetes-native application.
- The native build will be used to optimize resources, the Kubernetes manifest (ConfigMap, Secret, Health Check), container images being built, and Kubernetes deployment all be included.
- The application can still be tested and debugged after it has been deployed to the remote Kubernetes, just as local developers can do when using inner-loop development.
Vote App: A Step-by-Step Journey from Code to Prod
In this lab, Red Hat employees Natale Vinto, Cedric Clyburn, and Evan Shortiss will walk you through every step of creating a 2-tier Python and Go application that is built on Red Hat OpenShift.
After creating container images with OpenShift Pipelines and Quay.io and beginning to code with Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces, a cutting-edge in-browser IDE, you will deploy and promote the application into various environments using OpenShift GitOps.
You’ll familiarize yourself with topics like cloud-native development, Kubernetes automation, and the GitOps methodology in this lab.
Constructing a Serverless Functions Project with Quarkus
Red Hat’s Daniel Oh demonstrates how to construct a serverless functions project using the Kubernetes-native Java framework Quarkus in this hands-on workshop.
- Daniel will cover the functions’ optimisation, AWS Lambda deployment, and porting to various serverless platforms (including Kubernetes Knative, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Platform, and AWS Lambda).
- Additionally, you’ll enable a Buildpack for function development & deployment in seconds using practical command-line tools like kn func.
- Lab participants will receive a free serverless deployment sandbox. Additionally, you will also discover how to use Quarkus to swiftly construct cloud-native microservice projects.
The application will then be deployed to a function using the JVM and Native mode on AWS Lambda and Knative Event.
How to Attend the Summit Virtually
In case you can’t make it to Boston and wondering if there is virtual access to attend the summit, the answer is yes. You will have free access to important announcements as well as dozens of live and recorded sessions from Boston after it is over.
To avail the on-demand content when it launches in May 2023, sign up now. To register, click here.
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