On 2015-01-24 21:58, James Dugger wrote:
I have seen it take days of extra time for a RHEL based web server environment to get provisioned ore re-provisioned, tested, and implemented, when there was a pre-built provisioned instance of Ubuntu that could have been tweaked tested and implemented in hours.
This sounds like a failure of sysadminning. It's fairly easy to generate a kickstart (automated installation) file for RHEL/CentOS, which can install all the ordinary packages from the standard RHEL/CentOS repos. The kickstart file can also run an arbitrary shell script after all the packages are installed, which'd get additional repos and the packages in them and so forth. I did this for the last round of physical server installs; we could get a physical machine from "has no OS" to "running all the stuff" fairly quickly.
Or was this more like "we didn't think about anything but Ubuntu until the last minute"?
Why would you want a GUI on your server anyway?
Some things that can be useful (imagemagick, for one) can have dependencies on X11 libraries. Some things like LibreOffice require a running X server but can also be used to do things like convert PDFs to MSWord in an automated fashion. (The guy I was talking to who needed to do that used Xvfb to fake an X server....)
Corporate IT based provisioned or pre-provisioned snapshots are the standard.
...and if you want to do something that they haven't thought of, then the Dire Slug Of Bureaucracy rears its shambling face-analogue and eats all your free time...
In other words the cost in human capital to provision a web server becomes the decision factor
Did you mean "human labor"? Installing junk on a server feels a lot more like labor than capital to me if you go by economic terms. (Buzzwords don't tend to respect things like dictionaries or previous word usages though.)
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