Chapter 1. Availability


Red Hat provides a distribution of .NET Core that enables developers to create applications in the C#, Visual Basic, and F# languages and then deploy them on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, or other platforms. A no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Subscription is available, including a full suite of tools for container development.

The availability of .NET Core 2.1 allows Windows developers to deploy to RHEL without having to learn RHEL and to expand the reach of workloads to RHEL environments. The goal is to provide a safe introduction to a new environment and culture without risk of exposure. Now users of RHEL and RHEL-based Red Hat products can develop and run .NET Core applications directly on RHEL 7, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

RPM packages for .NET Core 2.1 are available for RHEL 7 and RHEL 8.

  • For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, .NET Core 2.1 is available as the RPM rh-dotnet21 in the following repositories:

    • RHEL 7 Server: rhel-7-server-dotnet-rpms
    • RHEL 7 Workstation: rhel-7-workstation-dotnet-rpms
    • RHEL 7 HPC: rhel-7-hpc-node-dotnet-rpms

    Full instructions for installing .NET Core 2.1 on RHEL 7 are available in the Getting started with .NET on RHEL 7 guide.

  • For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, .NET Core 2.1 is available as the RPM dotnet-sdk-2.1 in the AppStream repositories. The AppStream repositories are enabled by default in RHEL 8.

    Full instructions for installing .NET Core 2.1 on RHEL 8 are available in the Getting started with .NET on RHEL 8 guide.

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