Image builder for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a powerful tool for creating custom RHEL images with pre-installed software and configurations. It helps organizations standardize deployments, bring consistency, and reduce manual effort, generating ready-to-deploy images for virtual machines (VM), cloud, and bare metal. Image builder for RHEL can be used as a hosted service on the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console or as an on-premise service from the RHEL command-line interface and the RHEL web console.What's new for the image builder command-line interface in RHEL 10.2 and 9.8?The image-builder command is available as an RPM in the AppStream repository and as a container image in the Red Hat container registry. A similar containerized tool called bootc-image-builder is deprecated.Build bootable image mode for RHEL imagesTo deploy an image mode for RHEL system, you create a bootable image from a container image. Previously, this was only possible by using bootc-image-builder as a standalone container or as an extension for Podman Desktop. With RHEL 10.2 and 9.8, you can build a bootable image mode for RHEL image using the image-builder command.For example, to create a bootable virtualization image (.qcow2) from the base image mode for RHEL container image, authenticate to registry.redhat.io and then run this command:image-builder build qcow2 \