Red Hat Enterprise Linux (often abbreviated to RHEL) is a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86-64, Power ISA, ARM64, and IBM Z and a desktop version for x86-64. All of Red Hat's official support and training, together with the Red Hat Certification Program, focuses on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform.

Learn more about RHEL: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux

• alvistack/rhel-9
  • packer/rhel-9-libvirt/packer.json
  • packer/rhel-9-virtualbox/packer.json
• alvistack/rhel-8
  • packer/rhel-8-libvirt/packer.json
  • packer/rhel-8-virtualbox/packer.json
• alvistack/rhel-7
  • packer/rhel-7-libvirt/packer.json
  • packer/rhel-7-virtualbox/packer.json

• Packaging with Packer
• Minimal Vagrant base box implementation
• Support QEMU Guest Agent
• Support VirtualBox Guest Additions
• Support Vagrant synced folder with rsync
• Support Vagrant provisioner with Ansible
• Standardize disk partition with GPT
• Standardize file system mount with UUID
• Standardize network interface with eth0

Once you have Vagrant and VirtaulBox installed, run the following commands under your project directory:

# Initialize Vagrant
vagrant init alvistack/rhel-9

# Start the virtual machine
vagrant up

# SSH into this machine
vagrant ssh

# Terminate the virtual machine
vagrant destroy --force

You could also run our Molecule test cases if you have Vagrant and Libvirt installed, e.g.

# Run Molecule on RHEL 9
molecule converge -s rhel-9-libvirt

Please refer to .gitlab-ci.yml for more information on running Molecule.

Release tags could be find from GitHub Release of this repository. Thus using these tags will ensure you are running the most up to date stable version of this image.

Version tags ended with .0.0 are rolling release rebuild by GitLab pipeline in weekly basis. Thus using these tags will ensure you are running the latest packages provided by the base image project.

• Code released under Apache License 2.0
• Docs released under CC BY 4.0

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