13.2. Using the Image

Owners of OpenShift Enterprise may, as part of their subscription, use as many copies of the image as desired. The purpose of the image is focused on demonstrations and developer enablement. The image is built from the following products:

However, this image is not designed to be part of a deployment of OpenShift Enterprise PaaS within the datacenter, and does not have a separate subscription for updating it. If you choose to update the image with security, enhancement, or bug fix errata using Red Hat Network subscriptions, the image requires the use of a regular OpenShift Enterprise Infrastructure, Node, and JBoss EAP add-on subscriptions.

The vmdk image can be used on such hypervisors as VirtualBox or VMware Player. The qcow2 image can be used on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Fedora servers and workstations that leverage KVM, as well as on OpenStack. If you need a different file format, you can use the hypervisor utility of your choice to convert the images. Red Hat recommends running the image with at least 2 vCPUs and 2GB RAM.

When the image starts, an informative web page displays the user accounts and passwords for the image. The image defaults to leveraging a DNS configuration that is self-contained to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux image in the virtual machine. Instructions are also displayed on how to contact it from your host laptop, if desired, using a remote desktop client or SSH. Because the image starts a full desktop session with X server, you can work completely from the image in terms of browser URLs and JBoss Developer Studio, which are also pre-installed.