Networking is not enabled for Red Hat, version 8

When manually installing Red Hat, version 8, the networking is not enabled by default.

After installing the operating system, complete the following steps to resolve the issue:

  1. Shut down the instance from the portal and restart it.

  2. Log in to the instance.

  3. Install the guest agent tools and change it to Enhanced mode:

    Install guest agent tools

  4. Complete one of the following steps:

    1. Install cloud-init to configure the instance. For more information about cloud-init, see:

      https://cloud-init.io/

    2. Manually resolve the IP address using one of the following methods:

      • Run the following command to configure the IP address:

        sudo dhclient <interface>

      • Edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<interface> and set ONBOOT=yes

        Then, save the file and reboot the VM.

Parent topic: Application instances