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Rocky Linux 9 was recently released with a host of exciting features and support for new architectures. The most buzzworthy tool is Peridot, a completely cloud-native build system for managing and updating Rocky Linux. What this means is that anyone can build, enhance, and reproduce Rocky Linux independently using Peridot; it also means that the…
CIQ is the official founding support and services partner for the Rocky Linux project, and we are excited to announce the release of Rocky Linux 8.6. We are thankful to the entire Rocky Linux Community for helping to bring this release to fruition. Rocky Linux 8.6 can be downloaded for various architectures from the project…
A previous article covered how to quickly launch a Rocky Linux instance using the web interface on the Azure portal. In this article, I summarize how to do a similar thing using the Azure CLI tools. A follow-on post will spin up virtual machines and immediately customize them with cloud-init, an interesting and rich topic…
We recently published Rocky Linux 8.5 on Microsoft’s Azure Cloud platform. Our Rocky is freely available as a service to the community or with bundled support on a flat rate pay-as-you-go basis. As the founding support and services partner for Rocky Linux, CIQ looks to have Rocky quickly and conveniently available everywhere you want to…
Introduction Rocky Linux 8 systems are pretty secure out of the box. New Rocky Linux (RL) 8 installations adhere to industry best practices and conform to the high standards set by the upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution that it is rebuilt from. Fortunately, the high standards set by the upstream distribution means that Rocky…