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Red Hat Enterprise Linux on OCI Compute

90 percent of the Fortune 500 rely on Red Hat or Oracle solutions. Many of these companies use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as their operating system. Organizations can standardize their cloud operations with RHEL on OCI, giving them a common platform that extends from on-premises to OCI’s distributed cloud.

OCI offers high performing, mission-critical cloud services. Customers can migrate existing workloads already running on RHEL to RHEL on OCI.

Customers with current RHEL support contracts can migrate their licenses to OCI and continue to receive support from Red Hat.

Red Hat OpenShift on OCI flexible virtual machines

Validated configurations of OCI flexible virtual machines can run customer-managed Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Customers can install and manage the full OpenShift Container Platform on flexible compute, sized to the workload in 1-core increments. This enables existing OpenShift workloads to run on OCI’s distributed cloud.

Oracle provides Container Storage Interface (CSI) and Container Storage Module (CSM) operators to enable Red Hat OpenShift to add OCI Compute and Storage resources dynamically.

Read the OpenShift Container Platform on OCI documentation

Red Hat Enterprise Linux on OCI flexible virtual machines

Certified configurations of OCI flexible virtual machines can run RHEL. Flexible virtual machines can be sized to the workload in 1-core increments to match performance and budgetary needs.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux on OCI bare metal instances

For organizations that need dedicated performance, a low-latency interconnect, and access to GPUs, certified configurations of OCI bare metal instances can run RHEL and provide isolation and control with dedicated physical servers. They support applications that require high core counts, large amounts of memory, and high bandwidth connectivity.

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Create custom Red Hat Enterprise Linux images for OCI

Customers today use Red Hat Enterprise Linux image builder to customize RHEL installation images to meet their corporate and security policies.

The command line, local utility now supports and can build images that are supported on OCI. This enables customers to continue meeting their corporate and security needs when deploying to OCI.

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Collaborative support from Oracle and Red Hat

The strategic partnership between Oracle and Red Hat includes a joint support with transparent collaboration. Customers can contact both Red Hat and Oracle support to help resolve potential issues.

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RHEL on Oracle Console

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now available in the Oracle Cloud Console.

Organizations running mission-critical workloads face the challenge of taking advantage of OCI’s performance and economics while maintaining the stability, security, and multicloud consistency that enterprise operations demand. RHEL for OCI addresses that challenge.

RHEL is now generally available as a native offering in the Oracle Cloud Console, marking a significant milestone in the two-decade collaboration between Red Hat and Oracle.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for OCI

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for OCI delivers a hardened, enterprise-grade operating system built for hybrid cloud consistency and long-term lifecycle stability. It features OCI-specific configurations with native support for OCI telemetry, the OCI command-line interface (CLI), and automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform. Built-in security capabilities, proactive remediation of known security vulnerabilities, and high-throughput runtime optimizations help protect and accelerate critical enterprise, compute-intensive, and AI workloads.

Organizations can standardize their operations on RHEL and use a common platform across on-premises and multicloud environments.

Customers can purchase and deploy RHEL for OCI directly from the Oracle Cloud Console using Oracle Universal Credits.

Hybrid cloud consistency built for seamless OCI migration

Enterprises are increasingly adopting hybrid strategies that demand operational consistency across both on-premises and public cloud environments. With RHEL for OCI, organizations can use the same security-focused foundation across data centers, OCI, and other public clouds, helping reduce environmental drift, configuration gaps, and compliance uncertainty.

RHEL for OCI is available as a native OCI offering, giving customers access to the following benefits:

• Flexible compute and tooling: Customers can deploy RHEL 9 and 10 guests on Intel and AMD 64-bit virtualized shapes with native access to the OCI CLI, telemetry services, and automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform. These guests can take advantage of OCI’s ability to scale resources based on workload, helping align costs with actual consumption.
• Optimized economics: OCI customers can qualify for 100% drawdown against Oracle Universal Credit commitments, with pay-as-you-go hourly billing and simplified procurement directly through OCI. This provides a single procurement path for infrastructure teams managing Oracle credits and application teams that require Red Hat subscriptions.
• Unified support: For OCI-provided RHEL images, Oracle Support handles tier 1 and tier 2 issues directly and collaborates with Red Hat on in-depth operating system investigations, reducing ambiguity in support escalations.

A new standard for enterprise cloud

RHEL for OCI is another milestone in the long-standing collaboration between Red Hat and Oracle to address customers’ complex challenges.

Teams can use RHEL for OCI to migrate existing applications from on-premises environments or deploy new cloud native workloads. They can procure and deploy it directly from the Oracle Cloud Console, reducing procurement barriers and simplifying integration with Oracle services.

Get started

Deploy your first RHEL instance on an x86 virtual machine today via the Oracle Cloud Console. You can also explore the benefits of RHEL for OCI or review the solution overview to learn how RHEL for OCI can support your hybrid cloud strategy.

Contact a Red Hat representative or your Oracle account manager to discuss your deployment. Red Hat’s ecosystem of certified partners can help you find supported solutions and services for your organization.

Red Hat on Oracle Marketplace

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform subscriptions are available for purchase through Oracle Cloud Marketplace.

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Red Hat OpenShift on OCI flexible virtual machines

Customers can run a customer-managed Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform deployment on validated configurations of OCI flexible virtual machines. They can install and manage OpenShift Container Platform on flexible compute sized to the workload in 1-core increments. These configurations enable existing OpenShift workloads to run on OCI’s distributed cloud. Oracle provides Container Storage Interface and Container Storage Module operators that enable Red Hat OpenShift to add OCI Compute and storage resources dynamically.

Read the OpenShift Container Platform on OCI documentation

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on OCI Compute

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform delivers enterprise automation capabilities that help organizations standardize operations across hybrid cloud infrastructure. Organizations can deploy it on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Red Hat OpenShift on OCI Compute to orchestrate and manage OCI services, infrastructure, and multicloud workflows.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux on OCI

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is fully supported on OCI across both flexible virtual machines and bare metal instances. Flexible VMs can be sized in 1-core increments to align with performance and budget needs, while dedicated bare metal instances provide isolated physical servers with high core counts, large memory, GPUs, and low-latency connectivity for high performance workloads. Customers can use the RHEL image builder command-line utility to create custom, OCI-compatible installation images that meet their corporate policies and security compliance requirements.

Read the blog post about custom RHEL images for OCI