Immutable digital workspace with Red Hat Image Mode, IGEL and Omnissa Horizon

This repository contains the Containerfile to create a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Image Mode bootc image that can be used together with Omnissa Horizon as an immutable desktop Golden Image.

See the related blog post at https://blog.graa.dev/RedHat-ImageModeVDI for more details.

Clone repository

1. Clone the repository and change domain.conf to fit your Active Directory Domain, and Containerfile to fit the AD group or user to get sudoers capability.
2. Download the latest Linux Horizon Agent RPM from Omnissa and place it in the cloned repo's directory.

Commands

The commands below create a RHEL 9 Image Mode bootc image that is then converted to a VMDK, which can be used as the Golden Image in an Omnissa Horizon instant clone desktop pool.

podman build -t localhost/rhel-bootc-vdi .

mkdir output

podman run --rm -it --privileged -v /var/lib/containers/storage:/var/lib/containers/storage -v ./output:/output --security-opt label=type:unconfined_t --pull newer registry.redhat.io/rhel10/bootc-image-builder:latest --local --type vmdk localhost/rhel-bootc-vdi