In case you haven’t been following the Red Hat Developer blog closely, there are a few new things you should know. You just need to get comfortable using containers. You don’t have to worry about conflicting versions.

There is no need to use scl commands to manage selected versions of software, instead each container gets an isolated filesystem. All of the software installs in the locations you’d expect. We’ll use WordPress as a placeholder for your own application code.įrom my perspective, using RHEL 8 application streams in a container is preferable to using software collections. Podman makes it easy to accomplish this since there is no container daemon to complicate things. It is pretty simple to do with containers, even if you’ve only been through a “Hello, World” or two.īy the end of this article, you’ll have the current RHEL 8 application stream versions of PHP, MariaDB, and Apache HTTPD running in containers, managed by systemd on your RHEL 7 system.

You can start developing with the latest versions of languages, databases, and web servers available with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 even if you are still running RHEL 7.

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