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DevOps automation, cloud native platforms, and agentic AI perspectives from the Level Up team.
Join Level Up Thursday, November 19, 2026 at 1:00 PM Eastern / 10:00 AM Pacific for a live demonstration of Windows automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, plus the latest on BacklogZero for Windows playbooks.
Read more →Join Level Up, TD Synnex, and Red Hat on Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 1:00 PM Eastern for a virtual workshop on Cisco network automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Read more →Join Level Up Friday, October 9, 2026 at 1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific for a live demonstration of Windows automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform — plus the latest on BacklogZero for Windows playbooks.
Read more →A write-up of Level Up CTO Daniel Goosen’s Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026 session: why an Automation CoE still matters in 2026, five stages of maturity, a CoE operating model, AAP 2.7 as CoE primitives, and how to prove business value.
Read more →Join Level Up CTO Daniel Goosen at Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026 in San Jose on September 24 for a session on building an Automation Center of Excellence with Red Hat Ansible — including automation maturity, CoE operating models, and what’s new in AAP 2.7.
Read more →If the assessment is data, Terraform is one of its renderers. Map target architecture records to modules, keep human decisions in the assessment, and use Ansible for the parts Terraform should not own.
Read more →Wave planning fails when dependencies are interviews. Collect known edges from config and runtime, mark inferred edges as inferred, and refuse to hide the difference.
Read more →A migration inventory is not a CMDB export. It is evidence: OS, packages, listeners, storage, and enough facts to decide rehost versus replatform. Here is a playbook-shaped starting point.
Read more →Most AWS migration assessments still burn senior engineer hours on inventory, dependency collection, and backlog formatting. Those steps are mechanical. Architecture, risk, and cutover are not.
Read more →Five Things We Were Reminded About Red Hat® Satellite® During a Recent Client Engagement For many organizations, Red Hat Satellite enters the conversation as a repository and RHEL patch management platform. That's understandable because those are often the first problems Satellite gets asked to solv
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