[wellylug] Enterprise Linux

[Jethro Carr]

On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 10:43 +1300, Grant McLean wrote:
> Some people like the Debian model but find the update rate too high.  A
> compromise is to use Ubuntu LTS on servers.  One thing to beware of is
> the potential for more and larger problems when it comes time to upgrade
> (as opposed to smaller but more frequent issues with a more current
> distro).

It's also worth looking at your underlying platform. If you're running
an old school traditional environment (physical or VMware) with manual
configuration management, I'd go with RHEL/CentOS/Clone since it means
security patching till the publicly known EOL date for the platform.

However in a new-age of cloud providers, such as Amazon AWS when you
have ephemeral servers defined by configuration management systems like
Puppet/Chef/Salt, this consistency is less important.

We can now build environments using regular short-life releases, such as
non-LTS Ubuntu or Fedora and take advantage of the cloud by spinning up
new servers alongside the old, re-configure the new OS using our
configuration management automatically and once our apps are started,
terminate the old server.

I'd make the argument that it's easier to handle a small OS jump every 6
months and refactor their config management slightly each time to handle
any changes, than it is to do a major upgrade every 5 years.

regards,
Jethro

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Jethro Carr
www.jethrocarr.com
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