Deploy MicroShift on RHEL Servers

Goal: Install and configure MicroShift in package mode of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

Introduction

This chapter explores the installation requirements and essential configuration settings of MicroShift, as supported by Red Hat build of MicroShift, with a focus on deployment in air-gapped environments.

The hands-on activities cover installing and configuring MicroShift in a RHEL virtual machine (VM), ensuring it’s healthy, and configuring it for unprivileged developer access.

If you plan to deploy MicroShift as part of a RHEL image mode system, do NOT skip this chapter. You must understand the requirements and configurations introduced here to be able to automate them using Containerfiles and bootc image builder. You also need the skills you learn here to troubleshoot your bootc container images that include MicroShift.