One of Red Hat Enterprise Linux's big selling points has been its consistency, in the operating system itself and the software packaged with it. Red Hat goes so far as to offer application certification -- now with Docker support -- to ensure the software running on top of RHEL behaves as expected.
But what about developers who want to step outside the lines, so to speak, and run something a little more cutting-edge? Are they doomed to remain a version or two behind the other folks running the latest and greatest versions of PHP or Nginx? No, says Red Hat, and it's now offering the next iteration of a software package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux designed to do precisely that.