Minimal ready-to-use Oracle Linux 7 Gold Image

Oracle Linux is an open-source, enterprise-class operating system developed by Oracle Corporation. It's renowned for its scalability, robustness, and cost-effectiveness. Oracle Linux is the only recommended Linux distribution for Oracle applications and is engineered to provide the most secure, scalable, and reliable solution for your mission critical workloads.

This is a minimal ready-to-use Oracle Linux 7 Gold Image, mainly used as a common base system on top of which other appliances could be built and tested. It contains just enough packages to run within Azure, bring up an SSH Server and allow users to login.

Main highlights:

• 100 percent application-binary compatible with RHEL 7.
• Azure Linux Agent and cloud-init are included.
• Accelerated Networking is supported.
• Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is enabled.
• All security updates available at the release date are included.

Root login is disabled and only the user account specified at launch time is allowed to connect, preferably using ssh public key authentication.

Built using Oracle Linux 7 'Minimal Install' group of packages and a single 30 GiB OS disk. Both root partition and the corresponding filesystem are automatically extended during boot if the selected disk size is bigger than the default one.

Other minimal ready-to-use images:

• CentOS Stream 8
• CentOS Stream 9
• Rocky Linux 8
• Rocky Linux 9
• AlmaLinux 8
• AlmaLinux 9
• RHEL 7
• RHEL 8
• RHEL 9

Why choose ProComputers?

With over 10 years of experience working with Microsoft Azure, ProComputers provides open-source software bundled together into solutions ready to be launched on-demand in the cloud.

ProComputers is a proud sponsor of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation and the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation.

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