Deploy RLC Pro on Microsoft Azure Marketplace

I wrote this deployment guide for CIQ covering how to get RLC Pro running on Microsoft Azure, from the Marketplace listing to a production-ready Enterprise Linux environment.

The post opens with a question worth asking: how much time does your team spend configuring Enterprise Linux after launch? LTS repos, FIPS packages, support credentials. None of that is the work you spun up the instance to do. RLC Pro on Azure addresses that directly. The image ships pre-configured with CIQ repository access, and enabling Long-Term Support or FIPS 140-3 validated packages is one step after connecting your subscription.

I covered what each enterprise capability actually means in practice: LTS minor version pinning for teams that cannot rebuild and revalidate every time upstream ships a new release, FIPS 140-3 for regulated workloads in government, defense, healthcare, and financial services, and full Enterprise Linux binary compatibility for teams migrating existing automation and applications.

Read the full post on CIQ: How to Deploy RLC Pro on Microsoft Azure

This is the third post in a series I produced at CIQ on deploying RLC Pro across major cloud providers, with AWS and Google Cloud covered in companion guides.