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

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 6:32 PM Jamie Burchell <mail at jamieburchell.com>
wrote:
>
> Off topic for sure, but it's a shame this has to be a manual process of
> destroying and rebuilding every X years. Even Microsoft has gone the Apple
> way and just perpetually updates Windows 10 now.
>
      Do you use tools like ansible/chef? If you can put the time in,
you can make your webservers rather distro agnostic. I would even put
terraform on the table. It is not like your customers will know the
difference.
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 23:20, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
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We use Ansible "to a point" in that it sets up what we consider to be
our preferred server (Droplet) for a specific purpose, then we deploy projects
on them and tweak non-Ansible managed project configs. It's not old-school
scripts and it's not quite a one-liner to deploy everything. It's
somewhere in the middle. So in reality, providing we have control over a
customer's DNS or we use floating IPs, migrating to another major release
isn't as time consuming as doing everything from scratch.
> On 6 Jan 2021, at 13:17, Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> ?On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 6:32 PM Jamie Burchell <mail at
jamieburchell.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Off topic for sure, but it's a shame this has to be a manual
process of
>> destroying and rebuilding every X years. Even Microsoft has gone the
Apple
>> way and just perpetually updates Windows 10 now.
>> 
>      Do you use tools like ansible/chef? If you can put the time in,
> you can make your webservers rather distro agnostic. I would even put
> terraform on the table. It is not like your customers will know the
> difference.
> 
>>> On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 23:20, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at
gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 
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