NREC GOLD images

The NREC Team provides prebuilt images for user consumption. We try to include popular Linux distributions as well as Windows images with an up to date patch level and basic features needed for working in the cloud.

Current GOLD images

Currently available GOLD images in NREC:

GOLD image Family Default user name Boot FW End of Life Notes
Alma Linux 8 RedHat almalinux UEFI May, 2029 Downstream RHEL [1]
Alma Linux 9 RedHat almalinux UEFI May, 2032 Downstream RHEL [1]
CentOS 7 RedHat centos BIOS May, 2024 Downstream RHEL [1]
CentOS Stream 8 RedHat centos [3] BIOS May, 2024 Upstream RHEL [1]
CentOS Stream 9 RedHat cloud-user [2] BIOS unknown Upstream RHEL [1]
Debian 10 Debian debian BIOS June, 2024 “Buster” release
Debian 11 Debian debian UEFI June, 2026 “Bullseye” release
Debian 12 Debian debian UEFI June, 2028 “Bookworm” release
Fedora 38 RedHat fedora UEFI April, 2024  
UiO Managed RHEL 7 RedHat cloud-user BIOS June 2024 UiO projects only
UiO Managed RHEL 8 RedHat cloud-user BIOS May, 2029 UiO projects only
UiO Managed RHEL 9 RedHat cloud-user UEFI May, 2032 UiO projects only
Rocky Linux 8 RedHat rocky BIOS May, 2029 Downstream RHEL [1]
Rocky Linux 9 RedHat rocky UEFI May, 2032 Downstream RHEL [1]
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Debian ubuntu BIOS April, 2025  
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Debian ubuntu UEFI April, 2027  
Windows Server 2019 Std Windows Admin BIOS Janary, 2024 Activation in BGO only

In addition, the following GOLD images are available to GPU users. These images have the correct GPU driver preinstalled:

GOLD image Family Default user name Boot FW End of Life Notes
vGPU Alma Linux 8 RedHat almalinux UEFI May, 2029 Downstream RHEL [1]
vGPU Alma Linux 9 RedHat almalinux UEFI May, 2032 Downstream RHEL [1]
vGPU Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Debian ubuntu BIOS April, 2025  
vGPU Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Debian ubuntu UEFI April, 2027  
[1](1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) “Downstream RHEL” means that this is a binary compatible distribution built from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), trailing the release closely. “Upstream RHEL” means that this distribution is ahead of RHEL, so if RHEL is in 8.n release, the Stream release will be somewhere near the future 8.n+1 RHEL release.
[2]GOLD images for CentOS Stream 9 released in the period between July 1, 2022 and November 1, 2022 had their default username set to “centos”.
[3]GOLD images for CentOS Stream 8 released before December 1, 2022 had their default username set to “centos”. Between December 1 and May 1, 2023 the default username was set to “cloud-user”.

Retired GOLD images

The following GOLD images are retired and no longer available:

GOLD image Family Default user name Boot FW End of Life Notes
CentOS 8 RedHat centos BIOS Dec, 2021 Downstream RHEL
Fedora 34 RedHat fedora BIOS May, 2022  
Fedora 35 RedHat fedora BIOS November, 2022  
Fedora 36 RedHat fedora BIOS June, 2023  
Fedora 37 RedHat fedora UEFI December, 2023  
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Debian ubuntu BIOS April, 2023  
Ubuntu 21.04 Debian ubuntu BIOS Dec, 2021  
Ubuntu 21.10 Debian ubuntu BIOS July, 2022  
Debian 9 Debian debian BIOS June, 2022 “Stretch” release

UiO Managed

Shared projects with an organization affiliation to UiO have access to the “UiO Managed” images. An instance created from any of these images will instantly be automatically managed by the IT department at UiO. This includes CFEngine configuration management, monitoring and everything else.