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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 →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
Read more →Lessons from Modernizing Highly-Regulated Clients with Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform® and Satellite® In Level Up's experience, enterprise automation projects rarely stall because of Ansible or any similar technology solution. Instead, many are delayed because organizations must first understa
Read more →Level Up is excited to announce that we are sharing our internal Red Hat® certification study methodology with customers in a no-additional-cost, limited-spot, accelerated "study club" format. Since the Level Up Learning Club typically follows Red Hat Learning Subscription (RHLS)-based courses and c
Read more →Level Up Workshop: AI-Driven Ansible® Automation – November 6th Join Red Hat Premier Partner and Infrastructure Automation experts Level Up virtually for a hands-on workshop where you’ll build an intelligent, self-healing automation workflow powered by Red Hat® AI and Ansible®. You’ll learn how to d
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