Dear colleagues, As for me, I still have 3 hosts running CentOS 6 and 2 management servers in one of my production environments.
Also I have 1 management servers running CentOS 6 in another environment. If my voice counts, I'd propose -1. Thanks for attention :-) On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 07:44:58AM +0000, Rohit Yadav wrote: > All, > > > With CentOS8 around the corner to be released sometime around the summer, I > would like to propose to deprecate CentOS6 as support management server host > distro and KVM host distro. Non-systemd enabled Ubuntu releases have been > already deprecated [1]. > > > The older CentOS6 version would hold us back as we try to adapt, use and > support newer JRE version, kvm/libvirt version, the Linux kernel, and several > other older dependencies. Both CentOS6 and RHEL6 have reached EOL on May > 10th, 2017 wrt full updates [1]. > > > If we don't have any disagreements, I propose we remove el6 packaging support > in the next major release - 4.13. But, if there are users and organisations > that will be badly impacted, let 4.13 be the last of releases to support el6 > and we definitely remove el6 support in 4.14. > > What are your thoughts? > > > [1] EOL date wiki reference: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Hypervisor+and+Management+Server+OS+EOL+Dates > > > > Regards, > > Rohit Yadav > > Software Architect, ShapeBlue > > https://www.shapeblue.com > > rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com > Amadeus House, Floral Street, London WC2E 9DPUK > @shapeblue > > > -- V.Melnik
