Salesforce regulates its hybrid cloud by Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Salesforce is migrating 200,000 systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to unify its hybrid cloud infrastructure, due to the end-of-life transition from CentOS Linux 7.

In an attempt to unify its worldwide hybrid cloud infrastructure, Red Hat disclosed that Salesforce is migrating 200,000 systems — representing the totality of its software estate — to the most recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

Prior to Red Hat discontinuing CentOS Linux 7 at the end of 2021, Salesforce used this version of the operating system. Red Hat, VP/GM of RHEL Gunnar Hellekson, told SDxCentral that Salesforce's CentOS end-of-life transition mainly required Salesforce to move the platform. According to the vendors, Salesforce will be able to innovate more in the area of customer experience, boost developer productivity, and raise the effectiveness of its IT operations thanks to the reliability of RHEL.

The goal of Salesforce's strategy is to automate and standardize every system that supports the thousands of software products the firm offers and runs on various public cloud and on-premises settings. This approach significantly sped up the company's move to RHEL. Salesforce utilized its existing automation to accomplish full systems migration, beginning with "canary deployments," which involved gradually moving 5,000 systems at a time.

Red Hat and Salesforce, two prominent participants in the business infrastructure and software-as-a-service sectors, have pledged to improve the customer experience. However, their approaches to this are different.