[nycbug-talk] OT: what version of RHEL/CentOS are you using in prod?

Isaac Levy ike at blackskyresearch.net
Tue Nov 22 19:20:01 EST 2011


On Nov 22, 2011, at 6:07 PM, "Matt Juszczak" <matt at atopia.net> wrote:

> I know we all work with FreeBSD on a daily basis but usually have a client or two (or more) using CentOS/Rackspace. 
> 
> Specifically, I have a client who was using FreeBSD in their current environment but I'm currently migrating their project to Rackspace Cloud. 
> 
> I was developing the puppet setup on CentOS 5.6 but low and behold, CentOS 6.0 became available today as an available OS. 
> 
> Looks like 5.x is end of life for updates but will still get maintenance fixes.
> 
> If you were starting a new, cloud-based project today, would you use 6?
> 
> Matt

I'm pretty conservative, yet I'd go 6 in this VM case- especially with your puppet use- (but I'd read the entire release changes doc with the particular client use/reqs in mind before proceeding!) CentOS 'REL' equivalent has been consistent for me in the past.
Perhaps on hardware I'd be more skiddish...

My .02cents, tell us how it goes?!

Rocket-
.ike


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