Chapter 10. January 2024
10.1. Product-wide
10.1.1. Published Blogs and Resources
- Press Release: Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS GovCloud and Red Hat Insights Achieve FedRAMP® High Authorization (January 18, 2024)
- Blog post: Managing system access in Red Hat Insights with Inventory Groups by Christian Marineau (January 26, 2024)
10.2. Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10.2.1. Advisor
New Recommendations
During January, the team made four releases, introducing 14 brand new recommendations in Advisor, mostly focused on remediating risks in the kernel.
- Kernel crash occurs when NULL pointer dereference occurs in the vmxnet3 NIC driver on VMware ESXi hosts, due to a known bug in the kernel
- The root filesystem is mounted in read-only mode after reboot when there is a mount point name that ends with a space
- Kernel panic occurs when the CIFS file systems are mounted with FQDN, due to a known kernel bug
- Kernel panic occurs with the Transparent Huge Page (THP) enabled, due to a known kernel bug
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The system with a separate
/usrfile system andsystemd-219-78.el7_9.8package installed cannot boot after theinitramfsis regenerated -
Memory leak occurs when the number of orphan session scopes is large, due to a bug in
systemd -
System hang occurs with lockups when using
smartpqidriver, due to a known kernel bug -
Logs cannot be collected when the symbolic link
/dev/logis missing - NFS4 client can become unresponsive when the server side restarts, due to a bug in kernel
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Satellite will become unresponsive after the
noon, due to long-running and failingCertificateCleanupJobincandlepin -
NFS4 server runs into infinite loop with
NFS4ERR_DELAYreply, due to a regression bug in kernel - Boot failure occurs due to the absence of critical kernel modules
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Samba cannot work with
sssdas expected whenwinbindservice is not running -
The
httpdservice is unable to create a thread when the memory ornprocresource is not enough
10.3. OpenShift Container Platform
10.3.1. Cost Management for ARM, POWER and IBM Z
The Cost Management Metrics Operator is now available for ARM, POWER and IBM Z, in addition to the existing x86-64 support. This makes Red Hat Insights cost management the first FinOps tool to be available for POWER, and the second for IBM Z.
10.3.2. Custom platform costs
Customers can now add custom OpenShift projects to the Platform cost group, which will add to the default OpenShift and Kubernetes control plane projects. This is useful for cross-platform services, such as login microservices, PDF generation services, and so on, that are used by many tenants in the cluster.
