Purple Hat shall be making Purple Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) and Purple Hat JBoss Enterprise Utility Platform (EAP) 8 out there on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Each preparations have been introduced on November 19.
By way of a collaboration with Microsoft, RHEL AI will turn into out there on the Azure Market as an optimized and validated basis mannequin platform to run in Microsoft Azure environments, Purple Hat mentioned. Purple Hat describes RHEL AI as a method to streamline the event and deployment of generative AI fashions. It consists of the Granite household of open-source giant language fashions (LLMs) from IBM, InstructLab mannequin alignment instruments primarily based on the LAB (Massive-Scale Alignment for Chatbots) methodology, and a community-driven method to mannequin improvement by way of the InstructLab challenge. It additionally provides a pathway to Purple Hat OpenShift AI for tuning and serving these fashions utilizing the identical instruments and ideas, the corporate mentioned. RHEL AI on Microsoft Azure shall be out there on the Azure Market in December 2024.
Purple Hat JBoss EAP 8, an replace of the Java utility server launched in February 2024, can be coming to the Azure Market. JBoss EAP gives a pathway for Java utility modernization, Purple Hat mentioned, together with assist for Jakarta EE (Enterprise Version) 10. The server additionally helps to deal with reliability, safety, and compliance necessities, Purple Hat mentioned. With availability on Azure, customers can modernize utility improvement throughout the hybrid cloud whereas leveraging Azure companies, together with Azure Purple Hat OpenShift, Azure Digital Machines, and Azure App Service, in accordance with Purple Hat. JBoss EAP 8 on Microsoft Azure is due in coming months.