CentOS - Jan 2021 - CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

>  Probably.  For a lot of users, Stream is a drop-in replacement that's
better than CentOS was

We will need to (manually) migrate to Stream 9.x after 5 years instead of
10 though?

On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 22:51, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 1/5/21 11:32 AM, Jamie Burchell wrote:
> > is the change a non-issue for my use-case?
>
>
> Probably.  For a lot of users, Stream is a drop-in replacement that's
> better than CentOS was, because it gets updates consistently and
doesn't
> suffer from periods in which no updates are available, including
> security updates.
>
> If security was a priority for you, as it was for me, then CentOS
wasn't
> really suitable for public-facing services, but CentOS Stream might be.
>
> If you're building software that you intend to deploy on RHEL, Stream
> might not be a suitable build root for you.  Compiling software in a
> Stream build root may result in a binary that has dependencies which
> aren't yet available in RHEL.  And if you're building kernel
modules
> (like Phil @elrepo), then there is the issue that the kernel isn't
> subject to RHEL's ABI policy, but Red Hat developers have expressed
> interest in making the kernel interfaces more stable and using external
> kernel module builds as a test to flag interfaces that have changed.  So
> that situation may improve...
>
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On Tue, Jan 5, 2021, 5:03 PM Jamie Burchell <mail at jamieburchell.com>
wrote:
> >  Probably.  For a lot of users, Stream is a drop-in replacement
that's
> better than CentOS was
>
> We will need to (manually) migrate to Stream 9.x after 5 years instead of
> 10 though?
>
>
Well that's the part that hasn't fully been laid out, stream to me just
becomes  like another disto lts release, at least with Debian flavors I
feel confident in the upgrade path but the 10 year cycle is what makes RHEL
nice.  Stream is not an option for me, I will move to Springdale or Rocky
if it matures. For what I need Springdale has been around long enough that
I know they will continue and it also looks like Fermilab may be doing
something also maybe they will get behind one of the  new entries.

On 1/5/21 3:02 PM, Jamie Burchell wrote:
> We will need to (manually) migrate to Stream 9.x after 5 years instead of
> 10 though?

Yes.? CentOS Stream has a lifecycle comparable with other LTS distributions.

> We will need to (manually) migrate to Stream 9.x after 5 years
> instead of
> 10 though?
Most probably after 3 years. Currently stream should be equal to RHEL
8.4 .


Best Regards,
Strahil Nikolov