Building Compliant Images with Image Builder | RHEL Presents Ep. 67

It’s release season in the RHEL BU, and we’ve got a packed house for this one. Brian Smith and I are joined by three guests: Terry Bowling from RHEL product management, who owns Image Builder; Amy Farley, who oversees identity, security, and compliance features; and Mohit Goyal from the Insights team, focused on security services. We talk about how, around the 9.2 release, you can now bake compliance configuration directly into your Image Builder images, which matters a lot if you deal with HIPAA, payment data, or other regulated workloads.

A few things worth carrying away from the conversation:

• Image Builder reimagines how you assemble RHEL. Terry described it as a tool for building customized, golden images from a blueprint, so your whole enterprise deploys from a consistent standard.
• Compliance can be built in, not bolted on. The headline here is combining Image Builder with compliance profiles so your images ship already configured for the baseline your industry requires.
• It takes several teams working together. Image Builder, security and compliance features, and Insights security services all connect, which is why Terry, Amy, and Mohit collaborate so closely to support RHEL security end to end.

If regulated workloads are part of your world, this episode ties the pieces together.