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In the first post of this series, we showed how to create a Rocky Linux 8.5 virtual machine from CIQ’s Rocky Linux 8.5 image using Microsoft Azure’s web portal. This is the quickest way to get a running virtual machine since no software need be installed locally and the portal can be used to create…
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…