Developing Your RHEL Image Builder Strategy
Red Hat News, March 20th, 2023
You can have too little of something (understock). During the pandemic, everyone became familiar with this scenario, whether it involved waiting months for a new car or scrounging all the local markets for toilet paper. These examples illustrate two of the ways in which businesses can fail to align with customer demand. In the case of automobiles, shortages in key components like microprocessors constrained what manufacturers could build. In the case of toilet paper, because people weren't in offices (and were maybe hoarding a bit) caused a spike in consumer demand.
Eventually, that became a stack of flash drives with the installers. Nowadays, I don't need to worry about that as much because I utilize the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) image builder tool to manage my operating system lifecycle.
You've heard us talk a lot about the future of RHEL and the installation experience. Overhauling your server lifecycle process may as well start at the very beginning with image creation. Image builder supports multiple formats and destinations.