Chapter 2. Using Red Hat Lightspeed for RHEL planning dashboard

You can use the Life Cycle information to see planned support for a package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. You can also filter the RHEL releases by name, and choose to view just the installed packages, or both the installed and related packages. It generates a graphic to show the life cycle of the packages and their status across the releases.

For example, you can get tailored information about the package status and development from AppStreams packages such as PostgreSQL, Python, Nginx, Ruby, among others. This enables you to examine current versions of AppStream lifecycle and get a preview of what is coming to RHEL in future releases.

The Life Cycle page enables you to get information about the following life cycles for your running systems:

You can use the toggle button to view just the Installed and related RHEL versions or the Installed only RHEL versions. The chart shows the current RHEL versions of your running systems, the corresponding supported years, and the coloured bars to represent information on the RHEL release support:

The legends are interactive. You can highlight each of them individually.

Below the chart, there is a table showing how many systems are running, the corresponding RHEL version installed, and the current status of the systems under each specific release.

You can use the toggle button to view just the Installed and related packages or the Installed only packages. The chart shows the current RHEL versions of the packages for your running systems, the corresponding supported years, and the coloured bars to represent information on the RHEL release support:

The legends are interactive. You can highlight each of them individually.

Below the chart, there is a table showing how many systems are running, the packages currently installed, and the current status of the packages under each specific release.

The Roadmap page gives you tailored information on important changes coming to RHEL in the future. It shows a list of the Upcoming deprecations of packages that you are currently using, the Upcoming changes, and the Upcoming additions that could affect your system.

You can filter the features by Name, Type, and Release Date to check specific feature changes.

You can filter the features by name, and use the toggle button to view just the relevant features, or all features. It gives you a list, showing the features, the type of feature (Addition, Change, Deprecation), their RHEL release version, and the feature release date.

You can choose a specific feature from the list and click the expand arrow to view additional details about that specific feature. It shows you the number of systems that are potentially affected by that specific feature change. If you click the number of the potentially affected systems, it takes you to the inventory, where you can check information on the system and take actions to mitigate the issues.