IT Professionals,
UITS would like to inform you of upcoming changes to the Red Hat licensing at IU.
Due to the significant increases in Red Hat licensing costs and declining usage of Red Hat operating system across IU, UITS will be phasing out over a three-year period our enterprise license agreement. UITS will continue to fully fund Red Hat enterprise licenses for two additional years, with the idea that schools and departments will plan and execute migrations out of Red Hat and into an alternate Linux platform, such as CentOS. If schools and departments have not fully migrated during this two-year timeframe, departments and schools will be responsible for purchasing Red Hat license(s) at half the rate (approximately $135/server) for the third year.
UITS recommends that Red Hat should only be used for business needs specifically requiring Red Hat; those units without an absolute dependency on Red Hat are strongly encouraged to migrate out of Red Hat to an alternative platform prior to February 2022. If migration is not possible, you should seek appropriate funding (current cost estimate could be projected to exceed $300/server) to cover full licensing costs beyond the third year.
IT Community Partnerships will be sending out additional information and hosting an infoshare regarding the Red Hat changes in Q1 2020, which will include the Enterprise Linux Administration’s team experience with and tips around migrating from Red Hat to CentOS.
Additionally, please keep in mind present and future EdCert offerings focused on Red Hat/Linux, listed below, which cover the core concepts and training that are applicable to the Linux platform in general.
Current offerings:
RH124 – Red Hat System Administration I (4-day)
RH134 – Red Hat System Administration II (4-day)
Planned offerings:
RH254 – Red Hat System Administration III (4-day, based on RHEL version 7, planned for summer 2020 schedule)
RH294 – Red Hat System Administration III: Linux Automation (4-day, based on RHEL version 8, planned for fall 2020 schedule)
DO180 – Intro to containers, Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift (4-day, planned the second course for the RH254/RH294 course offering)
RH415 – Red Hat Security: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud (4-day, projected to attend mid-summer instructor training session)
Please contact cbri@iu.edu with any related questions or concerns.
–IT Community Partnerships on behalf of University Information Technology Services
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