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Software Collections features

Software Collections releases occur semi-annually. The collections have a two to three-year support life cycle that allows for rapid innovation without sacrificing stability. Software Collections is available with supported RHEL 7 subscriptions, all RHEL developer subscriptions, and the no-cost RHEL Developer subscription. In addition to RHEL, many of the collections with Linux containers are also available on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

Software Collections allow you to concurrently install multiple versions of the same software components on your system. Packages built as a software collection do not overwrite the base tools included with RHEL.

Building applications in Linux containers

Many Red Hat Software Collections are available with Dockerfiles, but are also distributed as full Linux container images that can be obtained from the Red Hat Container Catalog. This makes it easy to build and deploy applications in Linux containers that use Software Collections components.

The Dockerfiles used to build the Software Collections container images are provided as Software Collections RPMs on RHEL 7. These source Dockerfiles can be used for building containers with customized Software Collections components.

The Red Hat Software Collections portfolio

Software Collections includes many popular developer resources. For the full list of collections, see the latest Software Collections release notes for their respective life cycles. Here are a few of the latest versions below:

Languages and frameworks

Databases

(learn about syspaths with some of these)

MariaDB 10.3
MongoDB 3.6
MySQL 8.0
PostgreSQL 10
Redis 5

Web and application servers and HTTP accelerators

Apache httpd 2.4.34
nginx 1.18.0
Phusion Passenger 4.0
Varnish Cache 6.0

Complementary development tools

Git 2.27.0
Maven 3.5
IDE
Eclipse IDE 4.7

Try Red Hat Software Collections today

Follow our RHSCL get started guides to try Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, or Ruby on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Need a subscription? Developers can get a no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer subscription by registering and downloading through developers.redhat.com.