What is Rocky Linux from CIQ (RLC)?

up but by no means is it limited to that uh they have the these compliance requirements and and regulations that uh they they can't just go and grab anything that you know they want off the internet as an open source project and go put this into their production stack now of course Rocky Linux is is is a very widely supported operating system with a lot of people behind it but their compliance needs is still a a factor and they need to manage this appropriately so what what ciq is doing is is helping with that and giving them the opportunity to run what they know and

love today and uh give them that ability to have that compliance behind it yeah and another thing that I think in I mean obviously it's kind of implied in everything that you're saying right now but one of the biggest benefits of that is that you don't have to have something different because even sentos was a little different than re of times and so with this it's you could have rocky Linux AC cross the board in everywhere there's no difference you don't have to do anything different for it to be production ready it is production ready but you can run it everywhere and be supported yeah

exactly uh as a matter of fact some of the areas where sentos was different from from real and different from other commercial uh uh entities and solutions is the fact that well with sentos you didn't have to deal with the licensing you didn't have to deal with entitlements you didn't have to deal with uh Services necessary to Ure compliance with the the Linux vendor and so in this case again you're just running Rocky Linux and what we're providing is the the legal contracts necessary to provide the guarantees to provide SLO on security updates indemnification just to make sure that again if anything happens you're covered

and we ciq is standing behind that Rocky Linux Community yeah yeah that's awesome so just to be clear because I know we're probably going to get this question as well there's not support in the created a ticket with ciq kind of support in this offer correct yeah so it is exactly what you're getting from the community today there's virtually no difference uh we we do add because we do SLO on security updates so just in case for any reason if a security update needs to be handled by CQ we will do it again to provide that level of guarantee but uh so we will provide

an additional repository to that but all the packages are still signed by Rocky we are mirroring the those repositories in such a way that you will have as a customer you will have tier one access to uh those those repos and we will be validating those repos and ensuring that everything is exactly what you expect uh but again for the most part this is exactly what you're running today with Rocky uh again the when we ask our customers like what problems can we help you solve the problems that we're hearing are things like we we we are running Rocky Linux but we currently are having

problems because we have to get exceptions for Rocky Linux to be able to run Rocky Linux in production and every single year or at periodic intervals this these exceptions are getting questioned Etc so they said we really want to continue using Rocky Linux but but we want to make sure that we have the necessary compliance the necessary uh validation and guarantees and uh insurance policy and throat to grab or throat to hold or choke whatever that is to ensure to ensure that they have what they need to manage their compliance so what if there is um some kind of a you know compliance or security

standard that we don't that we haven't really looked into or don't really know but they are requiring it could they ask ciq then to go get that security absolutely absolutely now well depending on what it is we May charge you extra for it but but yeah absolutely and again that's what we're here to do so the service that we're providing is very low-level uh uh barrier to entry very easy for every organization and just to speak bluntly it's because it's very inexpensive uh because we're not doing much to be clear we're taking on the legal uh requirements and the compliance requirements but we're not actually

changing the operating system we're not actually uh making or engineering this we're providing it we're providing the guarantees but there's really there's not much that there's not much more to that to it than that so from our perspective uh it is a organization-wide license very low cost of entry and the goal here is really just uh we're not doing much so let let's keep the price low let's give organizations exactly what they need to be successful and uh and make it easy for them yeah and then continue on on working on various security uh certifications yeah because they're they're quite F there are a lot

of them yeah right so and it's funny being an engineer like that's my background as engineering like like the idea of releasing a product that is not really a product is is is actually kind of funny to me but at the same token this is what people are asking for yeah so you know it's something we can easily provide yeah and so why not do it and to your point earlier just to go back on this it doesn't come with anything different than what you're currently doing today from an engineering perspective it's exactly what you're doing today from an engineering perspective but now it also

comes with the guarantees that your legals and your CIO and your ceso and and and whatnot will appreciate yeah and then again I just really the value of being able to have all of your machines on the same operating system so all the testing that you're doing yeah works in production seamlessly y that is a that's a big win for a lot of companies as well and quite frankly a lot of them already have a lot of their own very dedicated brilliant Engineers they don't necessarily need engineering work on what's Happening and like to create Customs you know sorts of things um but they do

need that that that support a company backing up behind so yep cool yep and we will do support if somebody really wants sure but but it doesn't come with it and again the point of it is to keep the price super super low to make this that this is just something that you can just get uh uh very simply through procurement uh and then the engineers and the engineering teams the professional it uh teams have what they need to to to provide to the ceso that hey we got we got this everything's good yeah easy breezy just how we like it okay amazing is there

anything else about Rocky Linux from ciq that you want everyone to know and understand just to reiterate this is Rocky ly it's exactly what everybody has been using it's exactly what people have been leveraging already uh the only thing is is when you get Rocky Linux from ciq it comes with indemnification it comes with guarantees on security updates it comes with everything again from a compliance perspective that you need in order to uh to support the organization in a way that provides trust provides the the necessary I keep saying it but compliance yeah yeah exactly because it's kind of hard to go to an open

source community and get upset with anyone for not doing things fast enough right and I want to reiterate hey come to us and I want to reiterate it's not that Rocky has never done it like Rocky has been fantastic in terms of getting updates yes out there this is about a a corporation needs guarantees they need a contract they need to say if something doesn't happen they can legally go after so we're like volunteering like we'll be that organization to stand behind Rocky Linux and give you what you need for success we're not going to charge a lot cuz we're not doing a lot to

be blunt but we will give you that compliance we will give you everything you need to be successful there and your engineers will have everything they need to continue doing exactly what they have been doing right so you know exactly who to call I mean that is important who you going to call Don't make me say it Ghostbusters okay had to say it all right you guys well thank you so much thank you Greg for being here um weinar with us yeah it's exciting to talk about Rocky Linux from ciq so if you want more details about that you can visit us at our website or just email info@ cq.

super easy it goes right to us and we'll be able to chat with you about exactly what it is on offer and how we can get your organization set up so you have the same infrastructure across all the machines that you want to with in indemnification what was the other word security and compliance these are great work yeah amazing all right well thank you very much again if you guys have questions drop them in the in the line in the comment box and we will see you next can I plug something first of course okay there's more coming oh I feel like we need like

a yeah there's more but there but wait there's more if you act now there's more okay that's awesome okay tellas are you going to do like that's it just there's that's it there's more coming there's much more coming which will actually be more on the engineering side so I'm super excited about that as well but we're going to be adding a ton more value to the engineers and organizations and again a lot of what we've been doing is built is is driven by customers so customers uh uh the community is telling us what we need to do to solve their problems and so we've been

very actively working on the back end making all this happen and and and driving a lot of this so expect to see more soon uh and Halloween is always fun so it might be sometime around Halloween just saying O spooky mysterious I like it okay well that's awesome thank you guys so much for being here um and we're all over the place as well I think we got SC coming up good yeah right exactly I know I think last week I forgot to mention it so I was like oh I have to remember to mention it um so we're going to be at Booth 4131

I believe in Atlanta Georgia and that is the week before Thanksgiving which SC always is which kind of makes travel a little bit Wilds but it's okay we're going to be there and it's going to be amazing so we have a lot of things that are are we're going to be talking about at SC Not only Ascender or automation platform but also fuzzball yep so it's going to be very exciting so come see us there okay have a great day we'll see you next time bye bye everybody