Posted On: Oct 21, 2022
Today, we are excited to announce support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in Amazon EKS Anywhere. You now have broader choice of operating systems to create and operate Amazon EKS Anywhere clusters with RHEL in your on-premises data centers. RHEL support is available for Amazon EKS Anywhere clusters running on VMware vSphere, on Apache CloudStack, or directly on bare metal servers.
RHEL is a popular operating system for on-premises workloads, and customers often customize their RHEL images with security hardening and other organizational best practices. Now, you can start from your custom base images, and use Amazon EKS Anywhere tooling to build RHEL images for running Kubernetes clusters.
There are no upfront commitments or fees to use Amazon EKS Anywhere. You have the option to purchase Amazon EKS Anywhere Enterprise Subscriptions to get additional paid features as well as 24/7 support from highly-trained subject matter experts. To get support for RHEL, you can leverage your existing support contracts with Red Hat.
To get started with Amazon EKS Anywhere using RHEL, visit the documentation site. To learn more about Amazon EKS Anywhere, visit the product page.