How to get a free Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription

A few weeks ago, Red Hat announced the new free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscription. Below is a quick guide for developers who want to set up a subscription and start using it right away.

1. If you do not have a Red Hat account, navigate to the Red Hat Customer Portal and click the account icon in the upper right corner.

2. Sign up for a new account. If you do not already have an account, click Register and follow the instructions.

3. Then navigate to Red Hat Developer and log in to your Red Hat account. Click the Linux link at the top of the page, then Download RHEL . You will see options to download an ISO image of RHEL, currently in version 8.3.0.

You can now use RHEL at no cost. Alternatively, you can configure an Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2) RHEL instance .

4. Register your RHEL subscription. Run on your system with Red Hat Enterprise Linux installed:

subscription-manager register --username=admin --password=secret

The system can now run all Red Hat content, including the latest security flaws.

Note: You can check the RHEL subscription details at no cost on the Red Hat Subscription Management page .

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