Agree with Sven. CentOS 8 and CentOS Stream 8 are different. We should support CentOS 8 at least in 4.16.1.0, and recommend users to use RHEL or Rocky instead as we will drop CentOS 8 support in a future release.
-Wei On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 21:29, Sven Vogel <s.vo...@ewerk.com> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > So for what I know is that the last enterprise stable and ready version is > 8.X. After that it will be a stream Version. > A reliable system would be RHEL as a commercial one and Rocky Linux as a > exact successor from CentOS or let’s say binary clone from RHEL. > > Since CloudStack support RHEL and in the newest release of Rocky there is > no reason to support more CentOS Stream in the future. > > Personally. Rocky takes the place. Gregory Kurtzer a founder from CentOS > was too the founder from Rocky Linux. I think it’s a good place in > replacement. 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Thank you. > > ________________________________ > Von: Ron Wheeler <rwhee...@artifact-software.com.INVALID> > Gesendet: Monday, December 20, 2021 8:54:25 PM > An: dev@cloudstack.apache.org <dev@cloudstack.apache.org> > Betreff: Re: CentOS 8 EOL > > If you are suggesting that ACS picked a version of Linux, supported it > with an update repo and guaranteed that it would run forever under ACS > as long as you kept up with the ACS published updates, that might solve > a lot of problems for system administrators. > At least there would be a "recommended" Linux that ACS guaranteed would > run under Cloudstack. > > Are there a lot of different functionalities in the various Linux > versions that make a difference when running applications under Cloudstack? > > Can one pick a Linux distribution that would run all the apps that 95% > of Cloudstack users actually need? It seems that a lot of the > differences in Linux distributions are in the desktop apps. > > Ron > > On 2021-12-20 10:18, Nathan McGarvey wrote: > > All/any, > > Realistically, since CentOS Stream doesn't have minor versions, I'm > > not really sure how you *could* support it. It would be like supporting > > CentOS 7.0-7.9, but not knowing which version someone is running. You'd > > have to only support the "latest" version as of <date/time>, which might > > be chaos. > > > > Both Rocky and Alma have fairly decent corporate backers, at least > > for the immediate term. (Alma being their parent company pledging > > 1M/year at least until 2029 to finish out the 8 release cycle, and Rocky > > has about 2M/year at the moment, but could flex more.) > > Even Oracle, with their RHEL rebuild could be used in a similar > > manner, though I'd probably not recommend them due to their long track > > record of open-source interactions being less-than-ideal. > > > > Perhaps ACS can just pick one of the rebuilds (E.g. Rocky), but > > actually publish stuff as just "EL" like EPEL does? It shouldn't really > > matter, aside from /etc/os-release files and such. Perhaps ACS can do > > what many utilities do and make a "OS Family" determination (Ref: > > puppet, ansible, etc.) Instead of a strict "exact same" OS requirement. > > > > > > Thanks, > > -Nathan McGarvey > > > > > > > > > > On 12/16/21 10:40 AM, Nicolas Vazquez wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> CentOS 8 will reach EOL on 31st December this year - > https://www.centos.org/centos-linux-eol/ > >> > >> Opening this thread for discussion on the actions needed: should we > drop support on the next 4.16.1 release and onwards? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Nicolas Vazquez > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > -- > Ron Wheeler > Artifact Software > 438-345-3369 > rwhee...@artifact-software.com >
