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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 →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 →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 →Level Up Workshop: Deploying Cloud Native Applications With Red Hat® OpenShift® – October 21st Join us virtually Tuesday, October 21st, 2025 at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern for this Red Hat® and Premier Partner Level Up co-presented workshop, where you’ll be guided through building, deploying, and sca
Read more →Congrats to Red Hat for once again being named a leader in Gartner®'s latest Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms for OpenShift – and the only OEM whose solution is both designed to run anywhere and 100% based on open source. Red Hat press release: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/p
Read more →Briefly, Level Up wishes to congratulate Red Hat® on being officially named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Multicloud Container Platforms, Q3 2025! Read the full Forrester Wave report here: https://reprint.forrester.com/reports/the-forrester-wavetm-multicloud-container-platforms-q3-2025-f3367e46/i
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