Red Hat SummitChapter 2. Using the Red Hat Insights for RHEL planning dashboard
Red Hat Insights for RHEL planning dashboard is available inside Planning, and consists of the following components:
- Life Cycle
- Roadmap
2.1. The Life Cycle page
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:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- RHEL 8 Applications Streams
RHEL 9 Applications Streams
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Contains details about the following phases: Full Support, Maintenance Support, and Extended Life Phase. You can also see information on upcoming release dates and minor releases that will receive extended support. See Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle for more details.
You can use the toggle button to view just the Installed and related RHEL version 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:
- Red bar - Shows the retired versions of a RHEL release.
- Yellow bar - Shows RHEL releases with support ending in 3 months.
- Blue bar - Shows RHEL versions that are not installed on your system, but are supported.
- Light blue bar - Represents the upcoming RHEL releases.
- Vertical black bar - Represents the currently supported RHEL version.
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.
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Red warning - Shows the number of systems with a RHEL version that is no longer supported. If you click the number under the
Systemscolumn, you open a table with the impacted systems. If you click a specific system, it takes you to the inventory, where you can check information on the system and take actions to mitigate the issues. -
Yellow warning - Shows the number of systems with RHEL versions that are going to stop receiving support in 6 months. If you click the number under the
Systemscolumn, you open a table with the impacted systems. If you click a specific system, it takes you to the inventory, where you can check information on the system and take actions to mitigate the issues. Green signal - Shows the systems with a supported RHEL version. If you click the number under the
Systemscolumn, you open a table with the currently running systems with RHEL supported versions.- RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 Applications Streams
- These are components that are delivered and updated more frequently than the core operating system packages. It gives you flexibility to customize Red Hat Enterprise Linux without impacting the underlying stability of the platform or specific deployments. See Red Hat Enterprise Linux Application Streams Life Cycle for more details.
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:
- Red bar - Shows retired packages of a RHEL release.
- Yellow bar - Shows packages with support ending in 6 months.
- Blue bar - Shows the packages that are not installed on your system, and are supported.
- Light blue bar - Represents the upcoming package releases.
- Vertical black bar - Represents the currently supported packages version.
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.
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Red warning - Shows the number of systems that have a specific retired package. If you click the number under the
Systemscolumn, you open a table with the impacted systems. Click a specific system to access the inventory, where you can check information on the system and take actions to mitigate the issues. -
Yellow warning - Shows the number of systems that require some attention. If you click the number under the
Systemscolumn, you open a table with the impacted systems. Click a specific system to access the inventory, where you can check information on the package and take actions to mitigate the issues. -
Green signal - Shows the health of systems. Click the number under the
Systemscolumn, to open a window showing the packages with support for the running systems.
2.2. The Roadmap page
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.
Upcoming features are subject to change. The dates mentioned in the Roadmap are close approximations, non definitive, and subject to change.
- Upcoming deprecations - Shows the number of upcoming deprecations that could affect your running RHEL systems.
- Upcoming changes - Shows the number of upcoming changes that could affect your running RHEL systems.
- Upcoming additions - Shows the number of upcoming additions that could affect your running RHEL systems.
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.
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