Rocky Linux 9 LVM | Support by cloudimg

Rocky Linux 9 LVM is a production-ready Rocky Linux 9.8 image whose root filesystem is a Logical Volume Manager logical volume (volume group rocky, logical volume lvroot, xfs) rather than a plain disk partition. LVM lets you grow the root filesystem online, add data disks to the volume group and pool them under one filesystem, and take snapshots, without repartitioning or downtime.

Rocky Linux is a community enterprise distribution produced by the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and supported until 2032. The image is brought fully up to date with the 9.8 maintenance stream at build time and an automated gate blocks capture if any update remains outstanding. dnf-automatic is armed so the customer VM keeps applying security updates on a timer.

It ships with no known credential: the root password is locked, password authentication is disabled, root SSH login is prohibited, and no authorized_keys are baked in, so access is only ever by the SSH key you supply when you create the VM. The machine identity and SSH host keys are regenerated per instance. SELinux is left in enforcing mode; the unused rpcbind listener on port 111 is disabled; no swap is baked into the image, so Azure manages swap on the ephemeral resource disk. Gen2 (UEFI) Hyper-V.

Licensing — a collection of independently licensed open source packages (GPL, LGPL, MIT, BSD, Apache-2.0, MPL and more), FREE. Rocky Linux requires no subscription, no licence key and no Red Hat entitlement. The cloudimg charge ($0.04 per vCPU/hour) covers packaging, security patching, image maintenance and 24/7 expert support.

Recommended: Standard_B2s for general server workloads; scale up for database or application hosting. Target: RHEL 9 compatible application hosting, workloads that need online root growth or pooled data disks, and software certified on the 9 platform. Prerequisites: Azure subscription, VNet, SSH key; the NSG should permit port 22 from your management network.