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DevOps automation, cloud-native platforms, Red Hat, and AI agents — from the Level Up team.
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 →Level Up’s Executive Cloud Cost Management Practice helps you turn public cloud spend into a capital allocation decision you can explain, forecast, and govern. Show us your bill. We’ll show you five things you probably didn’t know about it.
Read more →Migration waves are a topological sort plus business constraints. Start from evidence-backed dependencies, isolate foundation services, and keep inferred edges out of the critical path until a human confirms them.
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 →The 7 Rs are only useful when each disposition becomes tasks, Terraform candidates, Ansible candidates, and a wave. Strategy without a backlog is still a slide.
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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