Enterprise Linux & Open Source

The operating system layer the rest of the estate depends on, run properly.

Enterprise Linux is where most of the estate's workloads actually execute, and it is also where lifecycle debt is easiest to accumulate quietly — unpatched builds, drifted configuration, images nobody can reproduce, and versions approaching end of support with no plan behind them.

Azul holds Red Hat Premier Partner standing, SUSE Emerald Partner standing and Canonical Partner standing, and works across all three distributions. Engagements cover the full lifecycle: how systems are built, how they are patched, how they are hardened, and how they are kept supportable over time.

What the engagement covers

Architecture and standard builds

Define reproducible system builds and standards across Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise and Ubuntu.

Lifecycle management

Manage content, versions and end-of-support transitions using Red Hat Satellite, SUSE Multi-Linux Manager and Canonical Landscape.

Patching and vulnerability remediation

Establish a repeatable patch cycle across environments, with the reporting an audit will ask for.

Security hardening

Apply and maintain hardening baselines, and measure systems against them on an ongoing basis.

Performance and optimisation

Tune systems against the workloads they carry, using Red Hat Insights and platform-native tooling.

Migration between distributions

Plan and carry out moves between enterprise Linux distributions where a support, licensing or capability change requires it.

Where this applies

This is the layer beneath most other work on this site, and is commonly engaged on its own where an in-house team needs specialist depth, or an estate has grown past what it can consistently maintain.

Technologies

RHEL
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Ubuntu
Satellite
Insights

Other capabilities

Platform ModernisationInfrastructure transformation, hybrid architecture, workload optimisation, virtualisation modernisation and migration services.

Automation & Intelligent OperationsRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform, infrastructure automation, event-driven automation, remediation, patching and configuration governance.

Cloud-Native & Container PlatformsIBM Fusion, SUSE Rancher, Canonical Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, OpenShift Virtualisation, platform engineering, application platforms and hybrid cloud architecture.

Observability & AIOpsInfrastructure monitoring, application performance, ITSM, event correlation, operational intelligence and Motadata platform solutions.

Managed & Engineering Services24x7 support, embedded engineers, specialist escalation, health checks, DR testing, optimisation, architecture and skills transfer.

CybersecurityVulnerability management, attack surface management, endpoint security, managed endpoint security, managed detection and response, awareness and training, incident response and threat intelligence — all delivered through a concierge experience and security journey, on award-winning technology from Arctic Wolf.

Describe the estate. An engineer will tell you what actually applies.

The first conversation is a technical one, not a pitch. Tell us what the environment looks like and the constraint you are working against.

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What are you trying to modernise?

Infrastructure, automation, Linux, OpenShift, observability, cybersecurity or operational support — start the conversation with an Azul engineer.

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