Red Hat will provide 16 free RHEL licenses for individual developers
Since Red Hat announced the end of the CentOS operating system, it has caused a lot of controversies. According to Red Hat’s plan, CentOS 8 will be the final version and will be stopped at the end of the year.
This makes many individuals and companies who rely on the CentOS operating system extremely angry because this sudden change will cause a large number of production environments to need to replace the system.
Now Red Hat is expanding the scope of free license support to quell user anger. Red Hat announced that it will provide up to 16 RHEL free licenses for individual developers.
Originally, there was only one free license for developers. Red Hat stated that this restriction has limitations and has now decided to extend it to 16 licenses.
Red Hat stated that developers only need to register and log in to a free Red Hat account to download RHEL and receive updates. There are no other requirements and this is not a sales plan.
After the developer is registered and logged in, Red Hat sales staff will not contact the developer to promote the paid plan, but the developer can also upgrade to a paid subscription if needed.
After registering an account, developers can directly use Red Hat Enterprise Edition on major public cloud platforms, and only need to pay the regular hosting fees without system authorization fees.
It is worth noting that the freely licensed operating system also supports use in a production environment. According to Red Hat instructions, it is free for developers and small production workload environments.
