Chapter 5. Automating RHEL system registration with a Kickstart file


You can use a Kickstart file with a system installer and an activation key to automatically register a system during the installation process. This is especially useful if you want to install and register multiple instances of RHEL. You can also use a single Kickstart file to install RHEL on multiple computers.

You can put an activation key into a shared Kickstart file to authenticate the processes without exposing username and password values. Additionally, administrators can preconfigure the activation key with selected system-level features, such as system purpose attributes. When an authorized user uses the activation key to authenticate the registration process, the selected features are automatically applied to the system with a single command.

Additional resources

Red Hat logoGithubRedditYoutubeTwitter

Learn

Try, buy, & sell

Communities

About Red Hat Documentation

We help Red Hat users innovate and achieve their goals with our products and services with content they can trust.

Making open source more inclusive

Red Hat is committed to replacing problematic language in our code, documentation, and web properties. For more details, see the Red Hat Blog.

About Red Hat

We deliver hardened solutions that make it easier for enterprises to work across platforms and environments, from the core datacenter to the network edge.

© 2024 Red Hat, Inc.