Unexpected package versions on Pay-As-You-Go Azure Marketplace Virtual Machine

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • After creating an Azure virtual machine(VM) using a RHEL 7.2 OS Image from Azure Marketplace my kernel is newer than expected.
  • After running yum update my VM was updated to a later minor release of RHEL.

Environment

  • Microsoft Azure
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7+
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.1+

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