Hello Red Hat users. This month we will be focusing on how to get your Red Hat Subscriptions into a public cloud. We’ve had a number of questions around how to take existing subscriptions and use them in your cloud environments. We’ll talk about which product subscriptions can be moved and steps to enable and deploy. – Scott Belz
PS. In the interest of Copyright, I copied 99% of this from the Red Hat Portal ;).
Compare Red Hat subscriptions in the public cloud.
Bring Your Own Beer Subscriptions vs. On-Demand
What is Red Hat Cloud Access?
Enabling your eligible Red Hat product subscriptions for Red Hat Cloud Access allows you to use those products on a Certified Cloud Service Provider. In this model, the terms of your subscription with Red Hat, including pricing, remain the same. You work directly with Red Hat. With Cloud Access, you can:
- Upload images of Red Hat products to which you are subscribed to a CCSP
- Access your images through the applicable web console
- Maintain your pricing and support services with Red Hat directly
What is an on-demand offering?
On-demand images are purchased from cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or IBM Cloud. These images can be used only within the cloud environment and are for cloud instances. Red Hat supplies updates to these images to the provider, who makes them available to their customers via Red Hat Update Infrastructure. On-demand customers should not register these images with Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM). If you want to host images in the cloud with your Red Hat subscriptions, you would purchase the necessary subscriptions from Red Hat directly and enable them for Red Hat Cloud Access.
https://catalog.redhat.com/cloud
| Red Hat Cloud Access | On-demand Red Hat Products | |
| Procurement | Customers pay Red Hat for their subscriptions, which should be enabled for Red Hat Cloud Access before deploying to the public cloud. | Customers pay the cloud provider directly for the on-demand Red Hat product on a pay-as-you-go model. |
| Usage | Customers can upload their own images to the cloud provider repository or use an image developed by the cloud provider and Red Hat. | Customers access images for their workloads made available from the provider’s repositories. |
| Support | Red Hat provides first-line support for customers running Cloud Access-enabled images on Red Hat CCSPs and works closely with providers when necessary to resolve customer issues. | CCSPs provide support for customers running on-demand Red Hat products. This varies by provider and is defined in the service-level agreement in the partner’s subscription. |
| Updates | Customers receive updates for the products from Red Hat directly. Specially developed images from Red Hat are configured to receive updates via the Red Hat Update Infrastructure at launch but may be registered to receive updates from Red Hat directly instead. | Customers receive updates from the cloud provider via the Red Hat Update Infrastructure. |
What is the procedure to enroll for the Red Hat Cloud Access Program
(Bring Your Own Subs)?
Link to Knowledgebase Article as of August 31, 2022
- Overview of the Red Hat Cloud Access Program
- Red Hat Cloud Access is a program that allows Red Hat customers to run eligible Red Hat product subscriptions on Certified Public Cloud Providers.
- Red Hat provides Gold Images for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Atomic Host, and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for AWS.
- For Microsoft Azure, only ‘Red Hat Enterprise Linux‘ images are available.
- For products that are not provided as a Gold Image on the Cloud Portal, start with a Red Hat Enterprise Linux image and install the desired Red Hat Product.
- Enrollment Process
- Log in to the Red Hat Customer Portal.
- Navigate to the Cloud Access Dashboard from the top menu bar.
- Click on ‘Enable a new provider‘ to select the required Cloud Provider.
- Select the Cloud Provider (AWS or Azure) from the drop-down menu.
- Enter your Account Information for the Cloud Provider, including the account number. (You can enter up to 100 accounts at a time).
- Choose the Subscription(s) you plan to deploy on the Cloud Provider. The list contains only the eligible subscriptions. To check the eligible products click here.
- For each subscription you want to enable, enter the anticipated maximum number of Subscription Entitlements that you play to deploy on the Cloud Provider in the Maximum Enabled Entitlement Quantity field.
- Click on Enable to request the process.
- Next, click on the 3 dots besides Date Added and click on Activate Gold Image to complete the process.
- Gold Image Activation
- After processing the request, please allow up to 3 hours to 1 business day for the Gold Images to appear on the AWS portal.
- The Gold Images for Azure may take up to 3 hours to 5 business hours once the request has been processed.
Note: Once you have successfully completed the form, you will see the Cloud Provider added to your Cloud Access Dashboard. You can view the subscriptions enabled for the Cloud Provider under the Enabled Products tab, and the Cloud Provider accounts you added under the Accounts tab. Once the product is enabled you will be able to see it listed under the Enabled Products tab under that particular Cloud Provider. And once the status is shown as ‘Granted’ from the Red Hat Portal, you can login to your respective Cloud portal and locate the RHEL BYOS Gold Images.
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