The Red Hat Developer Subscription is a no-cost offering of the Red Hat Developer program that is tailored for individual developers who want to reap the full benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. You can use these images to install RHEL on bare-metal servers or as a guest machine on top of a hypervisor such as VMware. In addition, you can also create bootable ISO installer images which are packaged in a tarball format. This makes it possible to quickly spin up customized RHEL development environments on-premise and on cloud platforms. These images are compatible with major cloud providers such as AWS and GCP.

The image builder tool allows users to create custom RHEL system images in multiple formats both for minor and major releases. You can apply the latest critical system patches without rebooting or interrupting services in the development or production environment. The web console now supports live kernel patching. Furthermore, these metrics can be exported to the Grafana server for better visualization. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 web console provides enhanced monitoring and performance metrics pages that help in identifying spikes in CPU, disk, memory, and bandwidth utilization. Built-in RHEL utilities have been recompiled to use OpenSSL 3.0 As a result, users can now benefit from the new security ciphers used for encryption. OpenSSL 3.0 introduces a provider concept, a new versioning scheme, and improved HTTPS.

In addition, SELinux policies have been improved to boost security. This prevents attackers from breaching the system using brute-force attacks. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, the OpenSSH configuration blocks remote login by the root user using password authentication.

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