What is Rocky Linux from CIQ (RLC)?

for that you know sometimes it can uh be a little bit of a a challenge to decide what are the things that customers are asking for that as a company you want to say yes and move forward quickly with it and what are some of the things that maybe are not in our wheelhouse so um yeah that's great thanks for listening to our customers and really standing up and saying hey you know what this is a a good idea we can do this we want to do this for you and we're going to make it happen so I appreciate that it kind of sounds a

little bit like what we are already doing at ciq with supporting Rocky so tell me how what you just explained is different it we really need to um see it from the customers perspective and the largest the biggest customers that we have are so strict in terms of how they're managing their compliance and their their their V various uh security postures and and stance they need to have guarantees they need to have uh complete confidence and the open source Community is fantastic for Upstream development it's fantastic for collaboration it's not great for GU getting guarantees and it's not great for guaranteeing compliance for these large

organizations so we're trying to figure out how do we uh give our customers what they want which is a a open base something that they can they can build as a foundation which is open it is secure it is um uh compliant but they need that in writing they need that guarantee and so we are providing that and we are becoming that throat to choke if anybody does need something along those lines so customers instead of getting their updates from the rocky Linux Community they would be getting their updates from ciq yeah exactly uh so we would be mirroring our repositories from R from there

we would be doing internal validation uh security check and and and and just giving it a um a once over in terms of compliance to make sure it is exactly what it is that it should be so we're going to be verifying all the packages verifying this everything there and again we will be pulling this directly from Rocky from there our customers will be pulling from us and we will be providing mirror services to them to obtain these the these updates now where it gets a little interesting is because we are guaranteeing that certain updates will come uh you know with within a certain SLO

or or SLA uh those will come from another repository which we will offer to our customers specifically for Rocky Linux and those packages will be available and and secured and signed by us all of the other packages because they're coming from Rocky are going to be signed by Rocky these packages will be signed by us and we will be providing them to make sure that a they're they're in our customer's hands as soon as absolutely possible and they are they are validated and if there's anything that they need over and above what the community is providing that's how we will deliver that to our customer

base