Chapter 3. Understanding gold images

There are multiple ways to search for and launch RHEL gold images in Azure. This includes the Azure Portal, Azure CLI, and PowerShell Cmdlet. The naming convention for the Red Hat gold images in Azure is RedHat:[Offering Name]:[Red Hat Product]-[OS Disk Type]-[Azure VM Generation]:[Red Hat Version].[Red Hat Release].[Image Creation Date].

An example gold image Uniform Resource Name (URN) is RedHat:rhel-byos:rhel-lvm8-gen2:8.0.20200715.

This example command displays all of the RHEL gold images in the US East region that were shared with the Azure account provided during enrollment in Cloud Access.

Get-AzVMImageSku -Location "East US" -PublisherName RedHat -Offer rhel-byos

There are multiple ways to search for and launch RHEL Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in AWS. This includes the EC2 Management Console, AWS CLI, and PowerShell Cmdlet. The naming convention for the Red Hat AMIs in AWS is listed below.

Red Hat gold images are published under the Owner ID 309956199498. You can ensure that you are using official Red Hat gold images by looking for this Owner ID when you choose an image.

When working in the EC2 Management Console, there is a menu item for AMIs under the IMAGES section within the left-side navigation pane. In this view, using the designation of Private images displays the gold images that have been shared with the AWS account provided during enrollment.

It is possible to further filter the list of displayed AMIs by adding an additional filter representing different aspects of the AMI Name that Red Hat uses, such as AMI Name : RHEL, AMI Name :.

An example AMI Name is RHEL-8.3.0_HVM-20201031-x86_64-0-Access2-GP2.

If you use the Launch Instance button from the EC2 Dashboard section of the EC2 Management Console and you select My AMIs, the filter Shared with me filters the listed AMIs to show the gold images that have been shared with the AWS account provided during enrollment.

This example command displays all of the RHEL 8.3 AMIs in the US-East-1 region that were shared with the AWS account provided during enrollment in Cloud Access using the AWS CLI. The AWS CLI Command Reference provides additional documentation regarding available options, commands, subcommands, and parameters.

$ aws ec2 describe-images --owners 309956199498 \
--filters "Name=is-public,Values=false" \
"Name=name,Values=RHEL*8.3*Access*" \
--region us-east-1

This example command displays all of the RHEL 8.3 AMIs in the US-East-1 region that were shared with the AWS account provided during enrollment in Cloud Access using the AWS Tools for Cmdlet. The AWS Tools for Cmdlet Reference provides additional documentation on the PowerShell cmdlets.

PS > Get-EC2Image -Region us-east-1 `
>> -Owner 309956199498 -Filter `
>> @{ Name="name" ; Values="RHEL*8.3*GA*Access*" }

Once your Google Group(s) has been granted access to the GCP gold images, you will be able to find them in the rhel-byos-cloud google project. This is a special project that limits access to the RHEL gold images for only Cloud Access customers.

The naming convention for Red Hat gold images in GCP is: [Red Hat Product]-[Version]-byos-[Image Creation Date].

Examples:

Using the GCP Cloud Shell or gcloud CLI