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On November 30, 2020, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 transitioned from the Maintenance Phase to the Extended Life Phase. Software maintenance, new bug fixes and security errata will no longer be provided for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 product family. This means the rhel6-based container images, such as rhel6/rhel, rhel6, and rhel6-init images will no longer be built by Red Hat. If you need to continue to use these images, customers will need a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support add-on subscription and will need to apply this limited set of software updates to all rhel6-based container images in use. For more information, please refer to this Red Hats Knowledge Base article: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5578191
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Init image is designed to be a fully supported foundation for your containerized applications. It is based on a small container-friendly 'dumb-init' instead of upstart. This container image allows customers to run one or more services in a RHEL 6 user space using init scripts. Use this image just like you would a regular Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution. Tools like yum, gzip, and bash are provided by default. To run your favourite daemon, build on top of this image by yum -y install && /sbin/chkconfig on. This image is mostly equivalent to rhel6/rhel, except for CMD.
The following information was extracted from the dockerfile and other sources.
| Canonical image ID | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Init |
| Summary | This container image allows to run services using initscripts in a RHEL 6 environment. |
| Description | The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Init image is designed to be a fully supported foundation for your containerized applications. It is based on a small container-friendly 'dumb-init' instead of upstart. This container image allows to run one or more services in a RHEL 6 user space using init scripts. This image is maintained by Red Hat and updated regularly. Use this image just like you would a regular Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution. Tools like yum, gzip, and bash are provided by default. To run your favourite daemon, build on top of this image by `yum -y install <daemon> && /sbin/chkconfig <daemon> on`. This image is mostly equivalent to rhel-server-container 6.Y, except for CMD. |
| Provider | Red Hat |
| Maintainer | Red Hat, Inc. |
| Repository name | rhel6/rhel6-init |
| Image version | 6.10 |
| Architecture | amd64 |
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Use a registry service account token to authenticate your container client. This allows you to pull images without using your personal Red Hat credentials, which is recommended for CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
Run the following command, then enter your registry token credentials when prompted by the terminal.
Pull the image
Use the following instructions to get images from a Red Hat container registry using your Red Hat login.
Run the following command, then enter your login credentials when prompted by the terminal.
Pull the image
Use the following instructions to get images from a Red Hat container registry without providing authentication.
Use the following command(s) from a system with podman installed.
Source code is available for all Red Hat UBI-based images in the form of downloadable containers. Here are a few things you should know about Red Hat source containers.
Use skopeo to copy the source image to a local directory
Inspect the image
Untar the contents
Begin examining and using the content.