Item: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rating: 10
Author: ISAAC RAMOS

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

So business problems that we address is really, it's the underlying platform by which we stand up our server technology that we have to support. So we use it as pretty much high available secure operating system for the different services that we have running on them.

Pros and Cons

I'd say as far as security, having security built in and baked in from the start, I think Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) does really well. I think the packaging, the updating as well as just the Ansible integration in it all, just being able to leverage Ansible in a lot of ways with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has been huge. The imaging process is fairly easy, so I just like it overall as far as it comes ready to be implemented, secured, and deployed to production in a lot of ways. As far as the built-in tools make it easier, and it's something I've been familiar with for a long time and something they've improved upon specifically has been Damon's system. CTL has been a huge help.

I'd say the more advanced security tooling features, but maybe that's because I don't leverage any of the GUI complimentary software suites. But really just being able to leverage FA policy aid A ID and SE Linux in a more intuitive way. Maybe that's just training. I think training is another thing that could be helpful. Just having the training subscriptions accessible for my team can be super helpful. Really the biggest gap we have, it's just making sure that people are trained on the technology we're leveraging.

Return on Investment

Would say positive impact has definitely been just the security first mindset and being able to produce artifacts, being able to run a lot of automation against RL for hardening, the operating system, the underlying operating system. There's a lot of content out there that's a huge community, so it's you get to inherit all of that when you come into the ecosystem

Key Insights

Do you think Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

I would say for enterprise server management for just essentially servers that don't require GUI or that you want to run in a kind of secure, standalone fashion. I think it does become difficult with integrating with different identity providers. So that can be a pain point as far as integration with active directory or any kind of ldap. But I would say as far as just being able to provide confidence that you're deploying a secure product from the outset and that it serves the needs of the different infrastructure as far as compatibility with a lot of software that's built on the platform. So I think it's really helpful for serving that server software in the cloud or on virtual machines wherever.

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Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)