Here’s a quick post on how to subscribe and use the preview enabling you to test/use the RHEL image in BYOS (Bring Your Own Subscription) model.
If you are reading this you probably already have found the RHEL image named rhel-byos in azure, but you were unable to use them because it was private.
I was going to share the link here, but as far as I’ve been told, I can’t. So please contact your Redhat rep or Microsoft rep if you want to join the preview. You probably can open a ticket on azure portal.
Important thing to know once you’re in the preview program:
You have to accept the Terms, don’t forget the:
| Set-AzureRmMarketplaceTerms -Accept
Even if the publisher name is RedHat when you lookup the image, when you want to use it, you have to use “redhat” all lowercase.
Here’s the powershell script I used to test the deployment once I was in the preview.
# Variables for common values
$resourceGroup = "testbyos"
$location = "canadaeast"
$vmName = "test02"
# Define user name and blank password
$securePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString 'XXXXXX!' -AsPlainText -Force
$cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ("azureuser", $securePassword)
Get-AzureRmMarketplaceTerms -Publisher redhat -Product rhel-byos -Name rhel-lvm75 | Set-AzureRmMarketplaceTerms -Accept
# Create a resource group
New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name $resourceGroup -Location $location
# Create a subnet configuration
$subnetConfig = New-AzureRmVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig -Name mySubnet -AddressPrefix 192.168.1.0/24
# Create a virtual network
$vnet = New-AzureRmVirtualNetwork -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -Location $location `
-Name MYvNET -AddressPrefix 192.168.0.0/16 -Subnet $subnetConfig
# Create a public IP address and specify a DNS name
$pip = New-AzureRmPublicIpAddress -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -Location $location `
-Name "mypublicdns$(Get-Random)" -AllocationMethod Static -IdleTimeoutInMinutes 4
# Create an inbound network security group rule for port 22
$nsgRuleSSH = New-AzureRmNetworkSecurityRuleConfig -Name myNetworkSecurityGroupRuleSSH -Protocol Tcp `
-Direction Inbound -Priority 1000 -SourceAddressPrefix * -SourcePortRange * -DestinationAddressPrefix * `
-DestinationPortRange 22 -Access Allow
# Create a network security group
$nsg = New-AzureRmNetworkSecurityGroup -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -Location $location `
-Name myNetworkSecurityGroup -SecurityRules $nsgRuleSSH
# Create a virtual network card and associate with public IP address and NSG
$nic = New-AzureRmNetworkInterface -Name myNic -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -Location $location `
-SubnetId $vnet.Subnets[0].Id -PublicIpAddressId $pip.Id -NetworkSecurityGroupId $nsg.Id
# Create a virtual machine configuration
$vmConfig = New-AzureRmVMConfig -VMName $vmName -VMSize Standard_D3_v2 |
Set-AzureRmVMOperatingSystem -Linux -ComputerName $vmName -Credential $cred |
Set-AzureRmVMSourceImage -PublisherName redhat -Offer rhel-byos -Skus rhel-lvm75 -Version latest |
Add-AzureRmVMNetworkInterface -Id $nic.Id
Set-AzureRmVMPlan -VM $vmConfig -Publisher redhat -Product rhel-byos -Name rhel-lvm75
# Configure SSH Keys
#$sshPublicKey = Get-Content "$env:USERPROFILE\.ssh\id_rsa.pub"
#Add-AzureRmVMSshPublicKey -VM $vmconfig -KeyData $sshPublicKey -Path "/home/azureuser/.ssh/authorized_keys"
# Create a virtual machine
New-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -Location $location -VM $vmConfig
