How to perform in-place OS upgrade from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 without Redhat subscription.

Question

How to perform in-place OS upgrade from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 without Redhat subscription.

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Answer 1

Hi @Tarunika Shrivastava

Performing an in-place OS upgrade from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 without a Red Hat subscription can be challenging, but i see it seems to be possible using the Leapp utility. However it is not under the support stance of azure
Please refer to the following links for detailed information

https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/leapp-explained-detail

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/redhat/redhat-in-place-upgrade

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/upgrading_from_rhel_7_to_rhel_8/index

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/upgrading_from_rhel_7_to_rhel_8/index#preparing-a-rhel-7-system-for-the-upgrade_upgrading-from-rhel-7-to-rhel-8

Hope this helps!
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