On 08/08/2012 01:46 AM, Chip Childers wrote:
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 7:38 PM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote:
(Disclaimer: nofi!)
Do people run Fedora on production platforms? Isn't CentOS/RHEL the
distribution for production and Fedora for Desktops and cutting edge test
machines?
Wido
You might be surprised. Even I am surprised at some of the folks using
Fedora in production for their compute nodes. They do tend to be like
you though, Wido, doing stuff on the edge of where KVM/libvirt
currently is, instead of where EL6 left them.
--David
I'd also make a distinction between the compute nodes themselves, and
the OS responsible for the CloudStack management server. In my world,
we are quite conservative with the compute nodes, but require the
newer packages available in the Fedora repos (vs. CentOS or RHEL).
Example: In 2011, Apache Qpid was significantly behind in the RHEL
repos, while Fedora was close to that project's latest release. In
that example, the Fedora distro was actually more stable for our
purposes.
I'm talking about the Hypervisors here indeed, not the management server.
Also, the management server runs on pretty much everything as long as
you have Java 1.6 you're fine.
I'm absolutely fine with skipping Fedora for this first release, but I
would prefer if it was one of our target OS types going forward.
We should always evaluate this.
Right now I have Ubuntu 12.04 and CentOS 6.3 machines in my CloudStack
dev setup, I'll do my best to do all the testing on both distributions.
Wido
