Google partners with CIQ on Rocky Linux
At Google Cloud, we strive to offer a great customer experience for enterprises by building a robust and supported platform for running all Linux-based workloads.
This mission is why we were one of the first cloud providers to offer purpose-built Rocky Linux images when Rocky Linux debuted last year as a replacement option for CentOS. We were also one of the first hyperscalers to sponsor the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) to support the open source community behind this Linux distribution. With these efforts, we’re pleased that many customers are already running Rocky Linux in Google Cloud today.
Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re taking another step in furthering the support we provide for Rocky Linux. We’re partnering with CIQ—the company started by CentOS co-founder and Rocky Linux founder Gregory Kurtzer featuring core expertise across Linux, cloud, HPC, containers and security— so we can provide customers a new...
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