If you’ve been managing Linux servers for a while, you’ve probably seen this happen: you install updates, tweak a configuration file, add a package to fix a problem, and move on.
After doing this across multiple servers for months, systems that started out identical gradually drift apart and become different from one another.
That’s where Image Mode in RHEL 10 helps. Instead of continuously modifying a running system, you build the entire operating system as a single image and deploy that image to your servers.
When changes are needed, you create a new image and replace the old one, rather than making manual changes directly on the server.