Technical requirements
To successfully navigate through the exercises in this chapter, you will need two bare metal or virtual machines that you can modify or reinstall the operating system upon. Root access, internet access, and DHCP IP addressing are mandatory. You will also need the ability to download ISO images and have a 16 GB (or greater) USB thumb drive. Finally, you will need a free Red Hat Developer account and access to your own Quay registry (also free). The requirements are greater for these exercises as the outcomes are more significant. I am hopeful you’ll even have fun along the way, which in my opinion is also a requirement.
For these exercises. I am using CentOS Streams 9 as my build machine’s operating system, and we’ll be creating a CentOS Streams 9 bootable container image. Let’s now move onward to the stars of the show, image-based Linux deployments.
