Rocky Linux is one of the most anticipated Enterprise Linux releases after direction shift in CentOS Project. As of this article update, Rocky Linux 8.4 is the first stable release that you can use in production as an alternative to CentOS 8 / CentOS Stream 8. If you’re ready to take it for a spin on OpenStack Cloud environment then this article is for you. We will discuss in detail the process of generating Rocky Linux 8 Qcow2 Image for OpenStack / KVM / Qemu.
With Rocky Linux 8.4 stable release, it can be that ultimate CentOS replacement, potentially deprecating any reason to switch to CentOS Stream. There are no official Qcow2 images available for OpenStack users, at the moment, hence the need to create them yourself. All of the tasks should be performed on a Linux Server / Desktop with Virtualization support and KVM tools installed.
Step 1: Install KVM Virtualization Tools
If you’re new to KVM Hypervisor refer to our previous articles on the installation and usage on standard Linux distributions:
- Install KVM Hypervisor on Ubuntu Linux
- How To Install KVM Hypervisor on Debian
- How To Install KVM on Rocky Linux 8 / RHEL 8 / CentOS 8
After installation check if kvm.ko kernel module is loaded:
$ lsmod | grep vhost
vhost_net 28672 2
vhost 49152 1 vhost_net
vhost_iotlb 16384 1 vhost
tap 28672 1 vhost_net
tun 53248 5 vhost_netIf not available load them manually using the command below:
sudo modprobe vhost_net vhost
The virt-install package must be installed on your Linux system.
# CentOS / Fedora / Rocky Linux
sudo yum -y install virt-install libguestfs-tools virt-top bridge-utils
# Ubuntu / Debian
sudo apt update
sudo apt install virtinst libguestfs-tools virt-top bridge-utilsStep 2: Download Rocky Linux ISO File
Visit Rocky Linux official ISO downloads page and download the latest release ISO image.
# Rocky Linux 8 Minimal ISO (Small in size, good for server installations)
mkdir ~/isos
cd ~/isos
wget https://download.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/x86_64/Rocky-8.8-x86_64-minimal.iso
# Rocky Linux 8.4 DVD (Huge in size, only fit for Desktop Workstation)
mkdir ~/isos
cd ~/isos
curl -O https://download.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/x86_64/Rocky-8.8-x86_64-dvd1.isoThe ISO file we downloaded will be located in the ~/isos directory:
$ file ~/isos/Rocky-8.5-x86_64-minimal.iso
/root/isos/Rocky-8.8-x86_64-minimal.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data (DOS/MBR boot sector) 'Rocky-8-8-x86_64-dvd' (bootable)Copy the ISO file to /var/lib/libvirt/images directory:
sudo cp ~/isos/Rocky-8.8-x86_64-minimal.iso /var/lib/libvirt/images/Rocky-8.8-x86_64-minimal.isoStep 3: Create Rocky Linux 8 VM on KVM Hypervisor
Identify bridge that will be used in VM creation:
$ brctl showIn this guide we’ll use the default Libvirt bridge – virbr0 that is Nated for internet access.
$ brctl show virbr0
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
virbr0 8000.525400f2930e yesCreate a new Kickstart file called ks.cfg installation:
vim ks.cfg
File contents – At least change root password and rocky user password. The default SSH user is called rocky, but you can change this to your preferred username.
install
cdrom
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
network --bootproto=dhcp --noipv6 --onboot=on --device=eth0
rootpw --plaintext StrongRootPassword
firewall --disabled
selinux --permissive
timezone UTC
bootloader --timeout=1 --location=mbr --append="net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0"
text
skipx
zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel
autopart --nohome --nolvm --noboot
firstboot --disabled
reboot --eject
user --name=rocky --plaintext --password StrongRockySUserPassword
%packages --ignoremissing --excludedocs --instLangs=en_US.utf8
# rocky needs this to copy initial files via scp
openssh-clients
sudo
selinux-policy-devel
nfs-utils
net-tools
tar
bzip2
drpm
rsync
dnf-utils
elfutils-libelf-devel
network-scripts
-fprintd-pam
-intltool
-iwl*-firmware
-microcode_ctl
%end
%post
# sudo
echo 'Defaults:rocky !requiretty' > /etc/sudoers.d/rocky
echo '%rocky ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL' >> /etc/sudoers.d/rocky
chmod 440 /etc/sudoers.d/rocky
# Since we disable consistent network naming, we need to make sure the eth0
# configuration file is in place so it will come up.
# Delete other network configuration first because RHEL/C7 networking will not
# restart successfully if there are configuration files for devices that do not
# exist.
rm -f /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-e*
cat > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 << _EOF_
TYPE=Ethernet
PROXY_METHOD=none
BROWSER_ONLY=no
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
DEFROUTE=yes
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no
IPV6INIT=yes
IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes
IPV6_DEFROUTE=yes
IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL=no
IPV6_ADDR_GEN_MODE=stable-privacy
NAME=eth0
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
_EOF_
%end
Hosting kickstart on http server
You can host the kickstart file in an http server for use on difference hypervisor hosts. See below examples:
# CentOS / Fedora / RHEL
sudo yum install httpd
sudo systemctl enable --now httpd
sudo cp ks.cfg /var/www/html/
# Ubuntu / Debian
sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2
sudo cp ks.cfg /var/www/html/Start installation of Rocky Linux 8 Virtual Machine on KVM using the virt-install command line tool:
sudo virt-install \
--name rocky-linux-8 \
--memory=1024 \
--vcpus=1 \
--os-type linux \
--location /var/lib/libvirt/images/Rocky-8.5-x86_64-minimal.iso \
--disk size=10 \
--network bridge=virbr0 \
--graphics=none \
--os-variant=rhl8.0 \
--console pty,target_type=serial \
--initrd-inject ks.cfg --extra-args "inst.ks=file:/ks.cfg console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8"
#--extra-args="ks=http://192.168.122.1/ks.cfg console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8"
Where:
- rocky-linux-8 is the name of the virtual machine domain created.
- 1024 is the amount of memory assigned in Megabytes
- 1 is the number of CPU cores
- /var/lib/libvirt/images/Rocky-8.4-x86_64-minimal.iso is the path to ISO file
- 10 is the size of virtual disk created in GB
- virbr0 is the name of Linux Bridge or Open vSwitch bridge attached to VM network interface.
- file:/ks.cfg – Path to local Kickstart config file
- http://192.168.122.1/ks.cfg is HTTP URL to kickstart file created – change accordingly.
Installation should begin immediately after execution of the command.
Starting install...
Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 9.6 MB 00:00:00
Retrieving file initrd.img... | 72 MB 00:00:00
Allocating 'rocky-linux-8.qcow2' | 10 GB 00:00:00
Connected to domain 'rocky-linux-8'
Escape character is ^] (Ctrl + ])
[ 0.208717] PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
[ 0.221323] pci 0000:00:03.7: quirk_usb_early_handoff+0x0/0x6a0 took 23503 usecs
[ 0.222377] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 64
[ 0.222981] Unpacking initramfs...
[ 4.239724] Freeing initrd memory: 73676K
[ 4.240460] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x32557ae966b, max_idle_ns: 440795369289 ns
[ 4.252373] Initialise system trusted keyrings
[ 4.253047] Key type blacklist registered
[ 4.253719] workingset: timestamp_bits=36 max_order=18 bucket_order=0
[ 4.256018] zbud: loaded
[ 4.256743] pstore: using deflate compression
[ 4.257727] Platform Keyring initialized
[ 4.333565] NET: Registered protocol family 38
[ 4.334401] Key type asymmetric registered
[ 4.335176] Asymmetric key parser 'x509' registered
[ 4.336083] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 247)
[ 4.337422] io scheduler mq-deadline registered
[ 4.338269] io scheduler kyber registered
[ 4.339050] io scheduler bfq registered
[ 4.339824] atomic64_test: passed for x86-64 platform with CX8 and with SSE
[ 4.341174] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver versiHere is the extraction of Package installation:
Running pre-installation tasks
...
Installing.
Starting package installation process
Downloading packages
Preparing transaction from installation source
Installing libgcc.x86_64 (1/370)
Installing tzdata.noarch (2/370)
Installing python3-setuptools-wheel.noarch (3/370)
Installing python3-pip-wheel.noarch (4/370)
Installing hwdata.noarch (5/370)
Installing rocky-gpg-keys.noarch (6/370)
Installing rocky-release.noarch (7/370)
Installing rocky-repos.noarch (8/370)
Installing setup.noarch (9/370)
Installing filesystem.x86_64 (10/370)
Installing basesystem.noarch (11/370)
Installing quota-nls.noarch (12/370)
Installing publicsuffix-list-dafsa.noarch (13/370)
Installing pkgconf-m4.noarch (14/370)
Installing ncurses-base.noarch (15/370)
Installing pcre2.x86_64 (16/370)
Installing libselinux.x86_64 (17/370)
Installing ncurses-libs.x86_64 (18/370)
Installing glibc-all-langpacks.x86_64 (19/370)
Installing glibc-common.x86_64 (20/370)
Installing glibc.x86_64 (21/370)
Installing bash.x86_64 (22/370)
Installing libsepol.x86_64 (23/370)
Installing zlib.x86_64 (24/370)
Installing xz-libs.x86_64 (25/370)
Installing libcom_err.x86_64 (26/370)
Installing libcap.x86_64 (27/370)
Installing info.x86_64 (28/370)
Installing bzip2-libs.x86_64 (29/370)
Installing popt.x86_64 (30/370)
Installing elfutils-libelf.x86_64 (31/370)
Installing libuuid.x86_64 (32/370)
Installing libgpg-error.x86_64 (33/370)
Installing readline.x86_64 (34/370)
Installing libxml2.x86_64 (35/370)As packages are installed you’ll see output from execution that looks like below:
.........
Verifying zlib-devel.x86_64 (370/370)
.
Installing boot loader
..
Performing post-installation setup tasks
.
Configuring installed system
...................
Writing network configuration
.
Creating users
Configuring addons
Executing org_fedora_oscap addon
Executing com_redhat_kdump addon
..
Generating initramfsUpon the installation of Rocky Linux 8 on KVM using virt-install, you’ll get login console at the end.
....
[ 4.591932] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ OK ] Started Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service.
[ 4.610836] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 4.612106] e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX
[ 4.613627] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ OK ] Started OpenSSH server daemon.
[ OK ] Started System Security Services Daemon.
[ OK ] Reached target User and Group Name Lookups.
Starting Login Service...
Starting Permit User Sessions...
[ OK ] Started Permit User Sessions.
[ OK ] Started Command Scheduler.
[ OK ] Started Getty on tty1.
[ OK ] Started Serial Getty on ttyS0.
[ OK ] Reached target Login Prompts.
[ OK ] Started Login Service.
[ OK ] Started Dynamic System Tuning Daemon.
[ OK ] Reached target Multi-User System.
Starting Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes...
[ OK ] Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes.
[ OK ] Started Network Manager Wait Online.
[ OK ] Reached target Network is Online.
Starting Crash recovery kernel arming...
Starting Notify NFS peers of a restart...
[ OK ] Started Notify NFS peers of a restart.
Rocky Linux 8.4 (Green Obsidian)
Kernel 4.18.0-305.3.1.el8_4.x86_64 on an x86_64
localhost login:Login with user root and the password of root user as set in the Kickstart file:
rootpw --plaintext StrongRootPasswordThe default password in my kickstart file is StrongRootPassword
localhost login: root
Password: <root-password-in-kickstart>
Last failed login: Fri Jul 2 17:49:22 UTC 2021 on ttyS0
There was 1 failed login attempt since the last successful login.
[root@localhost ~]#Update root password after installation:
# passwd root
Changing password for user root.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.Also update rocky user password; default in kickstart file is StrongRockySUserPassword:
# passwd rocky
Changing password for user rocky.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.Perform system update:
yum -y updateReboot after upgrade:
rebootInstall more packages that are required for general administration:
dnf -y install bash-completion vim cloud-utils-growpart wget redhat-lsb-coreConfigure Cloud init
Install cloud-init and openssh-server packages
dnf -y install openssh-server cloud-init Configure cloud-init and set rocky as default login user:
# vim /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg
# On line 5 : set to 1 if you want to enable SSH password authentication
ssh_pwauth: 1 # Not recommended for cloud use
# Line 57 - change system user from cloud-user to rocky
system_info:
default_user:
name: rocky
lock_passwd: false
gecos: Cloud User
groups: [adm, systemd-journal]
sudo: ["ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL"]
shell: /bin/bashEnable sshd and cloud-init services to start on system boot:
sudo systemctl enable cloud-init sshdStep 4: Perform Rocky Linux 8 VM Cleaning after installation
After OS upgrade and successful reboot we can begin the cleanup process of the VM as we prepare it to be Template. The process involve removing packages not required for minimal server setup such as development and source packages, clean up of network interfaces and logs cleaning.
Create a script file called cleanup.sh inside the VM.
vim cleanup.shPaste below contents into the file:
#!/bin/sh -eux
major_version="`sed 's/^.\+ release \([.0-9]\+\).*/\1/' /etc/redhat-release | awk -F. '{print $1}'`";
# make sure we use dnf on EL 8+
if [ "$major_version" -ge 8 ]; then
pkg_cmd="dnf"
else
pkg_cmd="yum"
fi
echo "Remove development and kernel source packages"
$pkg_cmd -y remove gcc cpp gc kernel-devel kernel-headers glibc-devel elfutils-libelf-devel glibc-headers kernel-devel kernel-headers
if [ "$major_version" -ge 8 ]; then
echo "remove orphaned packages"
dnf -y autoremove
echo "Remove previous kernels that preserved for rollbacks"
dnf -y remove -y $(dnf repoquery --installonly --latest-limit=-1 -q)
else
echo "Remove previous kernels that preserved for rollbacks"
if ! command -v package-cleanup >/dev/null 2>&1; then
yum -y install yum-utils
fi
package-cleanup --oldkernels --count=1 -y
fi
# Avoid ~200 meg firmware package we don't need
# this cannot be done in the KS file so we do it here
echo "Removing extra firmware packages"
$pkg_cmd -y remove linux-firmware
echo "clean all package cache information"
$pkg_cmd -y clean all --enablerepo=\*;
# Clean up network interface persistence
rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules;
mkdir -p /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules;
rm -f /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules;
rm -rf /dev/.udev/;
for ndev in `ls -1 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*`; do
if [ "`basename $ndev`" != "ifcfg-lo" ]; then
sed -i '/^HWADDR/d' "$ndev";
sed -i '/^UUID/d' "$ndev";
fi
done
echo "truncate any logs that have built up during the install"
find /var/log -type f -exec truncate --size=0 {} \;
echo "remove the install log"
rm -f /root/anaconda-ks.cfg /root/original-ks.cfg
echo "remove the contents of /tmp and /var/tmp"
rm -rf /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
echo "Clear the history so our install commands aren't there"
rm -f /root/.wget-hsts
export HISTSIZE=0Add execution bit to the script:
chmod +x cleanup.shThen run the script to perform cleanup process:
./cleanup.shExit the terminal:
rm -f cleanup.sh
cat /dev/null > ~/.bash_history && history -c && shutdown -h nowPress CTRL+] to close VM console
Perform Clean up to remove MAC address details using virt-sysprep utility:
$ sudo virt-sysprep -d rocky-linux-8
[ 0.0] Examining the guest ...
[ 5.5] Performing "abrt-data" ...
[ 5.5] Performing "backup-files" ...
[ 5.8] Performing "bash-history" ...
[ 5.8] Performing "blkid-tab" ...
[ 5.8] Performing "crash-data" ...
[ 5.9] Performing "cron-spool" ...
[ 5.9] Performing "dhcp-client-state" ...
[ 5.9] Performing "dhcp-server-state" ...
[ 5.9] Performing "dovecot-data" ...
[ 5.9] Performing "ipa-client" ...
[ 5.9] Performing "kerberos-hostkeytab" ...
[ 5.9] Performing "logfiles" ...
[ 6.0] Performing "machine-id" ...
[ 6.0] Performing "mail-spool" ...
[ 6.0] Performing "net-hostname" ...
[ 6.0] Performing "net-hwaddr" ...
[ 6.1] Performing "pacct-log" ...
[ 6.1] Performing "package-manager-cache" ...
[ 6.1] Performing "pam-data" ...
[ 6.1] Performing "passwd-backups" ...
[ 6.1] Performing "puppet-data-log" ...
[ 6.1] Performing "rh-subscription-manager" ...
[ 6.2] Performing "rhn-systemid" ...
[ 6.2] Performing "rpm-db" ...
[ 6.2] Performing "samba-db-log" ...
[ 6.2] Performing "script" ...
[ 6.2] Performing "smolt-uuid" ...
[ 6.2] Performing "ssh-hostkeys" ...
[ 6.2] Performing "ssh-userdir" ...
[ 6.2] Performing "sssd-db-log" ...
[ 6.2] Performing "tmp-files" ...
[ 6.2] Performing "udev-persistent-net" ...
[ 6.3] Performing "utmp" ...
[ 6.3] Performing "yum-uuid" ...
[ 6.3] Performing "customize" ...
[ 6.3] Setting a random seed
[ 6.3] Setting the machine ID in /etc/machine-id
[ 6.3] Performing "lvm-uuids" ...Undefine the libvirt domain:
$ virsh undefine rocky-linux-8
Domain 'rocky-linux-8' has been undefinedStep 5: Upload the Image to OpenStack Glance
We can now upload Rocky Linux 8 image to Glance Image service since the virtual machine image is no longer being managed by libvirt.
The underlying image file that you created is ready to be uploaded using the commands below:
openstack image create Rocky-Linux-8 \
--file /var/lib/libvirt/images/rocky-linux-8.qcow2 \
--disk-format qcow2 \
--container-format bare \
--publicConfirm image upload status:
$ openstack image list
+--------------------------------------+-----------------+--------+
| ID | Name | Status |
+--------------------------------------+-----------------+--------+
| d24b5d89-dc55-4433-a6c1-8533d9f75a11 | CentOS-Stream-8 | active |
| e17a9d60-3a82-4074-b52c-f79cdc31295a | Cirros-0.5.2 | active |
| 6ba292c5-c96d-4daf-a9d3-ebb1375277e9 | Debian-10 | active |
| c141e02c-f040-48e4-8441-1eb07b5af62e | Fedora-34 | active |
| fd3d1a9e-8d7e-4cc8-8806-232f1443a5b9 | FreeBSD-12 | active |
| 4fb906ec-8112-495b-86c8-1e21ffd68642 | FreeBSD-13 | active |
| 682bdb8d-011b-4b50-87bf-d68d3c2468de | Rocky-Linux-8 | active |
| c7e795e9-c002-400c-90a1-bfcdc82d0bfc | Ubuntu-20.04 | active |
+--------------------------------------+-----------------+--------+Step 5: Creating Rocky Linux 8 Instance on OpenStack
With the image uploaded to Glance we can create an instance on OpenStack to confirm its functionality.
Get network to use:
$ openstack network list
+--------------------------------------+---------+--------------------------------------+
| ID | Name | Subnets |
+--------------------------------------+---------+--------------------------------------+
| 34baac2e-2393-4607-b1c9-2d7044d40978 | private | 48789ed8-d7b7-4606-8ed8-0f1036312463 |
| 8fb37281-9c89-4110-ac84-44179011767d | public | 23357ddf-d536-49d4-81e6-f80f6c4d2434 |
+--------------------------------------+---------+--------------------------------------+Compute server flavor:
$ openstack flavor list
+----+-----------+-------+------+-----------+-------+-----------+
| ID | Name | RAM | Disk | Ephemeral | VCPUs | Is Public |
+----+-----------+-------+------+-----------+-------+-----------+
| 0 | m1.tiny | 512 | 5 | 0 | 1 | True |
| 1 | m1.small | 1024 | 10 | 0 | 1 | True |
| 2 | m1.medium | 2048 | 20 | 0 | 2 | True |
| 3 | m1.large | 4096 | 30 | 0 | 2 | True |
| 4 | m1.xlarge | 8192 | 40 | 0 | 4 | True |
| 5 | m1.jumbo | 16384 | 50 | 0 | 6 | True |
+----+-----------+-------+------+-----------+-------+-----------+Security group to use:
$ openstack security group list
+--------------------------------------+------------+------------------------+----------------------------------+------+
| ID | Name | Description | Project | Tags |
+--------------------------------------+------------+------------------------+----------------------------------+------+
| 2cc466c8-56a9-4540-bacb-9fcba39f6079 | default | Default security group | d87ec405cf8d409cb351e8a5a966aa3d | [] |
| b9348b10-e183-41ad-b1a6-ab15c4a3cf99 | permit_all | Allow all ports | d87ec405cf8d409cb351e8a5a966aa3d | [] |
| ca6aee3a-53c6-4ce0-a2c4-d2d39532556a | default | Default security group | 3109267d83094ae1a9f2bf165b48bed0 | [] |
+--------------------------------------+------------+------------------------+----------------------------------+------+And lastly obtain the name of SSH keypair to use:
$ openstack keypair list
+---------+-------------------------------------------------+------+
| Name | Fingerprint | Type |
+---------+-------------------------------------------------+------+
| admin | 19:7b:5c:14:a2:21:7a:a3:dd:56:c6:e4:3a:22:e8:3f | ssh |
| jkmutai | 19:7b:5c:14:a2:21:7a:a3:dd:56:c6:e4:3a:22:e8:3f | ssh |
+---------+-------------------------------------------------+------+With the image uploaded to Glance we can create an instance on OpenStack to confirm its functionality:
openstack server create \
--flavor m1.medium \
--image Rocky-Linux-8 \
--network private \
--key-name admin \
--security-group permit_all \
rocky-linux-01When running the status should show as Active:
$ openstack server list --name rocky-linux-01
+--------------------------------------+----------------+--------+-----------------------+---------------+-----------+
| ID | Name | Status | Networks | Image | Flavor |
+--------------------------------------+----------------+--------+-----------------------+---------------+-----------+
| fbe3f02c-9584-492d-8930-02e7e2ee41c6 | rocky-linux-01 | ACTIVE | private=172.10.10.154 | Rocky-Linux-8 | m1.medium |
+--------------------------------------+----------------+--------+-----------------------+---------------+-----------+You can create floating IP and attach to the instance if created on the private network:
openstack floating ip create <public-network>
openstack server add floating ip <instance-name> <floating-ip>Let’s try SSH to our Rocky Linux 8 server:
$ ssh rocky@serverip
Warning: Permanently added 'serverip' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
Enter passphrase for key '/Users/jmutai/.ssh/id_rsa':
[rocky@rocky-linux-01 ~]$Confirm OS release information:
[rocky@rocky-linux-01 ~]$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Rocky Linux"
VERSION="8.4 (Green Obsidian)"
ID="rocky"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="8.4"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="Rocky Linux 8.4 (Green Obsidian)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:rocky:rocky:8.4:GA"
HOME_URL="https://rockylinux.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.rockylinux.org/"
ROCKY_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Rocky Linux"
ROCKY_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="8"There you have Rocky Linux 8 server running on OpenStack. We started with VM creation on KVM, performed clean up, uploaded the Qcow2 image to OpenStack, and finally created an instance on OpenStack from the image. The same process can be used for any other RHEL 8 based operating system such as AlmaLinux 8.
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