Red Hat acquired Ansible, now CoreOS. They seem to be really gunning for the DevOps marketplace.
However, I would love to see how they have evolved their openstack offering and their integration with intel's secure compute since the last time I worked on that project... I havent really looked - but I wonder if at all the meltdown/spectre issue affected them at all.
is there any at all risk from a security standpoint where redhat owns the tooling for many devops customers?
They open source a lot of their tools, so I don't really think there's any lock-in (I assume that is what you meant by "insecurity" in them owning the tools, and not traditional computer security)