Quick How-to with RHEL

  1. Create an account (it’s free) and download RHEL ISO from the official repository here
  2. Create a VM in VirtualBox with the resources you want. I created mine with 2GB of RAM, 2 vCPU and 40 GB of disk space .
  3. Follow the wizard and install the way you prefer: Minimal server, Keyboard, network, etc. Recommended to partition your disk with LVM and partition it as recommended by the provider
  4. Once is installed proceed to log as root to the OS (I used “Somred1” as hostname) and add another user (dangaiden as example) with a password: $ useradd dangaiden & passwd dangaiden
  • 4.1 Add the user to the wheel group or to the sudoers file (as you prefer):
    • Use visudo or usermod -aG wheel dangaiden
  1. Register the new system to RHEL portal:

    $ subscription-manager register --username=<username> --password=<password>

You are attempting to run "subscription-manager" which requires administrative
privileges, but more information is needed in order to do so.
Authenticating as "root"
Password:
Registering to: subscription.rhsm.redhat.com:443/subscription
The system has been registered with ID: 5512e476-8ecd-4e44-a986-e4340424aa6d
The registered system name is: Somred1 
  • 5.1 Attach a license from our newly created account in the RHEL portal.

    $ subscription-manager attach --auto

You are attempting to run "subscription-manager" which requires administrative
privileges, but more information is needed in order to do so.
Authenticating as "root"
Password:
Installed Product Current Status:
Product Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Status:       Subscribed
  • 5.2 Verify the status:

    $ subscription-manager status

You are attempting to run "subscription-manager" which requires administrative
privileges, but more information is needed in order to do so.
Authenticating as "root"
Password:
+-------------------------------------------+
   System Status Details
+-------------------------------------------+
Overall Status: Current

System Purpose Status: Not Specified
  • 5.3 Verify the repositories list

    $ sudo yum repolist

[sudo] password for dangaiden:
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
repo id                                                  repo name
rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms                         Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs)
rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms                            Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs)

  1. You’re good to go, we can install for example tree!

    $ sudo yum install tree

[sudo] password for dangaiden:
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs)                                                     6.4 MB/s |  34 MB     00:05
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs)                                                  5.4 MB/s |  31 MB     00:05
Dependencies resolved.
.
. (Ommited some output)
.
Installed products updated.

Installed:
  tree-1.7.0-15.el8.x86_64

Complete!
  1. Copy your ssh key to the server: ssh-copy-id

  2. Shutdown and clone the newly created VM (Create a full clone and remember to change MAC address for the NICs).

  3. Once it’s cloned, power on the new one and proceed to:

      1. Change the hostname:

    # vi /etc/hostname

      1. Change the ip address:

    # vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s3

      1. Reboot it and done!