Rocky Linux from CIQ
Community support with commercial guarantees
With Rocky Linux from CIQ, you get everything you love about Rocky Linux along with the guarantees and compliance your environment demands.
And all for one low, flat rate price.
We love Rocky Linux, that’s why we stand behind it
Rocky Linux from CIQ (RLC) is the preferred choice for public and private organizations running Rocky Linux and requires enterprise grade contracts and compliance. It delivers a trusted, current, industry-accepted, open source Linux distro, along with the security and guarantees you require for corporate compliance.
How does Rocky Linux from CIQ compare to the community edition?
Feature | Rocky Linux Community | Rocky Linux from CIQ |
---|---|---|
CVE Remediation | Best-effort timing patches | Fast, guaranteed patching with SLOs |
Package Repositories | Community-managed with basic signing | Verified, secure, U.S.-based CIQ repositories |
OS Updates | Variable time to remediation | Guaranteed updates with service-level objectives |
Accountability | Community-managed processes | Indemnification and verified package content |
Open and Consistent
With RLC you can build on an open source, reliable Linux distro for dev, test and be supported in prod without concern for inconsistencies across environments.
Security Updates Guaranteed
RLC delivers timely security updates and a commercially backed SLO to ensure that even if the community is running behind, or upstream projects decide not to fix a critical security issue, CIQ will ensure you are compliant and up to date.
Verified and Validated
With RLC, we validate all installers, community packages, binaries, metadata, and errata, ensuring that you are getting exactly what you expect, all the time. We verify delivery of a trusted OS.
Accountability, Indemnification
An RLC license comes with the protection and guarantees that eliminate your risk and liability in the case of legal issues with the open source software. CIQ is accountable and delivers the coverage to keep your legal and compliance teams happy.
Freedom via Tier 1 Access
RLC guarantees fast, secure and trusted updates from our Tier 1 U.S.-based repositories. You can pull your updates directly from our servers or mirror the repositories and we’ll never count your systems or entitlements so you can mirror to all of your hosts. It delivers the absolute freedom you expect from open source.
The open source Linux you expect
RLC delivers Rocky Linux, a current distro that is binary compatible with the industry standard enterprise Linux. CIQ simply makes it easier and safer to consume and use in all your environments.
Easy to consume with simple, affordable pricing
Available Now for Just $25k/year
CIQ offers a flat rate for RLC, no matter how many CPU cores, servers, or virtual machines you have. We’ll never count your environments or audit usage. In the true spirit of open source, you can use a consistent enterprise Linux distro in ALL your environments and know that we’ve got your back for compliance and security.
Mitigate risk, Migrate from CentOS Today
Four years after Redhat discontinued development of CentOS there are still thousands of environments deployed on this unsupported and out of date distro.
Rocky Linux is the industry choice to upgrade from CentOS and when coupled with the benefits you get from CIQ, it becomes the best of both worlds, open source and community led with the compliance you need.
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