Cloud providers which are listed below, support using RHEL as an operating system option:
First of all the RHEL gold image AMIs have to be enabled from the RedHat Customer Portal (this requires a cloud-provider subscription).
Afterwards, new images will be added to the aws account under EC2-> Images-> AMIs-> Private Images.
Once the images are available in the aws account, the image id for RHEL (supported versions are
mentioned here) should be then added to the
MachineDeployment spec to the field ami.
RedHat provides images for Azure, documentation is available on RH customer portal.
The MachineDeployment field .spec.template.spec.providerSpec.value.cloudProviderSpec.imageID
should reference the ID of the uploaded VM.
Azure RHEL images starting from 7.6.x don’t support cloud-init as their documentation states here. Thus, custom images can be used with a cloud-init pre-installed to solve this issue. Follow this documentation to prepare an image with cloud-init support.
RedHat also provides Gold Access Image for GCE and those can be fetched just like aws and azure. The MachineDeployment field .spec.template.spec.providerSpec.value.cloudProviderSpec.customImage should reference the ID of the used image.
RHEL images in GCE don’t support cloud-init. Thus, custom images can be used with a cloud-init pre-installed to solve this issue. Follow this documentation to upload custom RHEL images.
In order to create machines which run RHEL as an operating system in KubeVirt cloud provider, the
image should be available and fetched via an endpoint. This endpoint should be then added to the
MachineDeployment field .spec.template.spec.providerSpec.value.cloudProviderSpec.sourceURL. For
more information about the supported images please refer to the documentation from KubeVirt CDI.
Once RHEL images (e.g: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x KVM Guest Image) are uploaded to OpenStack, the
image name should be used in the MachineDeployment field
.spec.template.spec.providerSpec.value.cloudProviderSpec.image.
Find out here how to deploy a template VM in vSphere.