Minimal ready-to-use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 Gold Image

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is one of the leading commercial Linux distributions. It is reliable and secure, providing the flexibility of the open-source code and the innovation of the open-source communities.

This is a minimal ready-to-use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 Gold Image. All security updates available at the image release date are included. 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.

Features include:

• No RHEL9 subscription required.
• Pay-As-You-Go with no upfront cost.
• Azure Linux Agent and cloud-init are included.
• Accelerated Networking is supported.
• Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is enabled.

How to get started

Once you’ve deployed, access your virtual machine instance using ssh and public key authentication. Root login is disabled and only the user account specified at launch time is allowed to connect.

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’ images are easy to set up, and our expert onboarding and support enable you to deploy smoothly.

Looking for an older RHEL release? Try these alternative images:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8

If no RHEL image corresponds to your needs, please choose another one from our popular image list below:

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

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