AlmaLinux¶

What is AlmaLinux ?¶

An Open Source, community owned and governed, forever-free enterprise Linux distribution, focused on long-term stability, providing a robust production-grade platform. AlmaLinux OS is ABI compatible with RHEL®.

AlmaLinux versions at CERN?¶

For the 9 family: AlmaLinux 9 (ALMA9) is provided by using the upstream content. Integration to the CERN computing environment is still possible via the addon 'CERN' repository

ALMA9 was made available at CERN on 16.01.2023 and support will end on 31.05.2032
More information on ALMA9 can be found on the dedicated ALMA9 page

For the 8 family: AlmaLinux 8 (ALMA8) is provided by using the upstream content. Integration to the CERN computing environment is still possible via the addon 'CERN' repository

ALMA8 was made available at CERN on 16.01.2023 and support will end on 31.05.2029
More information on ALMA8 can be found on the dedicated ALMA8 page

Which AlmaLinux version should I use?¶

We recommend all users to use AlmaLinux9 as this version has a longer product life

Installation¶

OpenStack images (VM and Ironic bare-metal)¶

OpenStack AlmaLinux images (VM and Ironic bare-metal) are available as public images within https://openstack.cern.ch

Container images (docker / podman)¶

docker images are available

For AlmaLinux 9: docker pull gitlab-registry.cern.ch/linuxsupport/alma9-base:latest

For AlmaLinux 8: docker pull gitlab-registry.cern.ch/linuxsupport/alma8-base:latest

AIMS PXE boot¶

AlmaLinux can also be installed via network boot, using same methods as CentOS distributions.

Please see PXE Network boot and AIMS2 client for more information.