Upgrading an Azure Red Hat VM from 8.3 to 8.8

Question

Hello All, I would like some guidance on an issue I have.

I have several Linux RHEL 8.3 VMs that I would like to minor upgrade to 8.8 instead.

I've checked several articles but cannot find one for my specific situation. For example this one ([https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/redhat/redhat-in-place-upgrade) which seem to be for major upgrades rather than minor (e.g. 7.1 to 8.1 rather than 8.x to 8.y) and this one ([https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-update-red-hat-enterprise-linux-tvia-minor-releases-and-extended-update-support) that does not specify as being okay for Azure VMs.

Does anyone have a clear guide on the steps to upgrade from 8.3 to 8.8?

Thank you all and I look forward to hearing your solutions!

Answer 1

Hello @Victoria3957 ,
Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Q&A platform. Happy to answer your question.

Did you look at this link [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/redhat/redhat-rhui

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