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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Develop on Windows, Deploy on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Ben Breard

End the "it works on my machine" headache. Stop fighting environment drift. Learn to sync local Windows development via WSL directly with RHEL production environments.

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Solving environment drift with containers and baselining

Environment drift causes significant deployment issues that containers and proper operating system baselining can resolve.

#2 about 3 min

Managing operating systems as containers with bootc

Technologies like Podman and universal base images enable deploying entire operating systems as containers through standard pipelines.

#3 about 2 min

Accessing the free commercial-friendly developer subscription

A self-service subscription model provides full access to enterprise Linux environments directly for individual developers.

#4 about 1 min

Running persistent Linux environments directly on Windows

The Windows Subsystem for Linux offers a native, persistent execution environment for Linux tools on Windows hardware.

#5 about 2 min

Automating system builds with Image Builder

Refreshing custom footprints systematically across hardware and hyperscalers ensures consistent environments at any update cadence.

#6 about 3 min

Configuring unprivileged user environments in the console

Generating a blueprint with sensible defaults and a custom non-root user provides a secure base tarball.

#7 about 3 min

Importing custom distribution tarballs into WSL

The command line interface allows fetching, extracting, and importing custom distribution archives securely into the local subsystem.

#8 about 2 min

Reviewing the complete deployment workflow steps

Synthesizing the steps from subscription to automated build and subsystem import establishes a smooth local development pipeline.

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Building and updating system images with Bootc

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Building custom operating systems via standard containerfile configurations

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