Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Beta Red (RHEL) has been released, RHEL 8.1 Beta improve the manageability, added new security enhancements, and increased developer productivity. This release also includes an updated driver, provide new features to supported hardware platform and bug fixes. specific contents:
Improved Manageability
When configuring firewall rules and system services, RedHat Enterprise Linux Web console now supports finer granularity, including:
- Better configure the firewall area
- Filter log-based services
- Screening services based on the service name and status metadata
In addition, RHEL8.1 Beta running on a virtual machine (VM), you can now use the Web Console to import existing QCOW image, manage different types of storage pools, modify the startup configuration and automatic memory allocation, as well as pause and resume now there VM.
Strengthen security
RHEL8.1Beta to increase the container-centric SELinux configuration file. With this new feature, you can create a more targeted security policy, in order to better control the container how to access the host system resources, such as storage, computing and networking. This enables customers to more effectively strengthen the deployment of its container to prevent security breaches, making it easier to achieve and maintain compliance. This feature reduces the potential risks running unknown or untrustworthy applications. In addition, RHEL 8.1 Beta will be used in our pursuit of more FIPS-140 and Common Criteria certification platform.
Developer Productivity
RHEL 8.1 Beta with new development tools, application frameworks and languages offer many new application flow.
RHEL 8 introduces image generator, which is a component that enables you to create a custom system images in various formats. Using RHEL 8.1 Beta, Image Builder is extended to add support for more configuration options and user SSH keys. It also added a new image formats to support Google Cloud Platform (GoogleCloud) and Alibaba Cloud (Alibaba Cloud) and other cloud platforms. With these increases, RHEL 8.1 Beta now supports all major cloud infrastructure platform, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack and VMWare.
In addition, RHEL 8.1 Beta full support eBPF extended version to help solve complex network problems, and XDP ( eXpress the Data Path ).
Download: https://developers.redhat.com/rhel8/
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