Ben Breard

Develop on Windows, Deploy on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

What if you could run your production Linux environment directly on your Windows machine? End "it works on my machine" issues for good with RHEL on WSL.

Develop on Windows, Deploy on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
#1about 1 minute

Solving the "it works on my machine" problem

Environment drift is a common development challenge that can be solved by baselining the operating system across all environments.

#2about 2 minutes

Red Hat tools for cross-platform consistency

An overview of tools like Podman Desktop, Universal Base Images (UBI), and Image Mode (BootC) helps maintain consistency from development to production.

#3about 1 minute

Announcing the new free Red Hat developer subscription

A new, free, self-service developer subscription is now available with commercial-friendly terms for individual developers in corporate environments.

#4about 2 minutes

Building custom OS images with Red Hat Image Builder

Red Hat Image Builder allows you to create custom, consistent OS images for any platform, including hyperscalers, virtualization, and WSL.

#5about 2 minutes

Demo of creating a RHEL 10 image blueprint

A step-by-step walkthrough shows how to use the Red Hat console to create a custom RHEL 10 blueprint for a WSL image.

#6about 2 minutes

Demo of importing and running RHEL on WSL

Learn the command-line steps to install WSL, import the custom RHEL 10 tarball, and launch the Linux environment on Windows.

#7about 2 minutes

Recap of the develop on Windows, deploy on Linux workflow

A summary of the process shows how to use a developer subscription and Image Builder to create a consistent RHEL environment in WSL.

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