Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 (RHEL 8.10) Gen2 Minimal

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 image

This is a minimal, ready-to-use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 image built by Rinne Labs from the official ISO with only the "Minimal Install" package group. It installs only what an Azure VM needs to boot, take your SSH key and let you in, so you start from a clean base and add just what your workload needs.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 on Azure: a minimal, verified base for web, application and database servers

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the enterprise Linux distribution developed by Red Hat, Inc. This image stays on 8.10, takes its updates from Red Hat Update Infrastructure, and has every feature below proven on a booted Azure VM before it is published.

Key features

• Minimal by construction: built from the official Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 ISO, "Minimal Install" package group
• SELinux enforcing, at runtime and persistently across reboots
• Password authentication over SSH disabled
• Root partition and filesystem grow to the disk size at first boot (cloud-init)
• Azure Linux Agent (waagent) installed
• Serial console configured for Azure boot diagnostics
• NVMe-ready: NVMe root disk and Azure's recommended I/O timeout
• Accelerated Networking verified on a booted VM
• Distribution security updates applied at build time
• Registered with Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI); no Red Hat subscription required
• Exactly one kernel installed

Benefits

• Start from a small, known package set and add only what your workload needs
• Stay on 8.10 with security fixes, without being moved to the next minor release
• No Red Hat subscription to buy or attach: updates arrive through Azure

Use cases

• Web and reverse-proxy tiers with Apache HTTP Server or NGINX
• Database hosts for PostgreSQL, MySQL or MariaDB
• CI/CD build agents for Jenkins, GitLab Runner or GitHub Actions
• Ansible, Terraform and OpenTofu control nodes
• Podman and Docker container hosts, and Kubernetes worker nodes
• Virtual Machine Scale Sets and golden-image pipelines

None of this software is preinstalled: the image stays minimal and you install what you need.

Conclusion

This image gives you Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 as a minimal, cloud-ready base on Azure: SELinux enforcing, password SSH login disabled, Accelerated Networking, NVMe and updates through RHUI, with every claim on this page verified on a booted VM before publication.

Other Rinne Labs images

• RHEL
• RHEL 10.2, minimal
• RHEL 10.1, minimal
• RHEL 9.8, minimal
• Rocky Linux
• Rocky Linux 8.10, minimal
• AlmaLinux
• AlmaLinux 8.10, minimal
• Oracle Linux
• Oracle Linux 8.10, minimal
• CentOS Stream
• CentOS Stream 10.0, minimal

Why choose Rinne Labs?

• Every image comes out of the same reproducible, fully automated build pipeline, starting from the distribution's official ISO. Nothing is hand-edited in.
• Every image is checked by an automated assertion suite on a booted VM, covering SELinux, SSH, the Azure agent and drivers, the repositories and the applied updates. An image that fails an assertion is not published.

"Red Hat" and "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. Rinne Labs is an independent publisher, not affiliated with or endorsed by Red Hat, Inc. This product repackages free and open source software; all trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

THIS IMAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.