Strahil Nikolov
2021-Jan-05 20:54 UTC
[CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver
> Given we are not developing drivers or applications (other than > websites > and web applications), is the change a non-issue for my use-case?If you decide to go with Stream, you will need to test carefully each version and use some kind of repository management - as there will be no older version of the packages. Thankfully the 'Boom boot manager' is now fully working, so you can easily roll back an OS update. If you decide that you don't want to fight with updates and the short life cycle of Stream, you got plenty of clones that are available: - Springdale Linux - Oracle Enterprise Linux And 2 more expected to come: - Rocky Linux (founder of the original CentOS -> Gregory Kurtzer) - Lenix (backed by CloudLinux) I would prefer the full lifecycle of a RHEL clone instead of Stream. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov
Scott Techlist
2021-Jan-05 21:17 UTC
[CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver
The question for me, too is going to be, what will the VPS providers do? Digital Ocean, Vultur, etc. I'll be at their mercy, without trying to create my own image, if that's even possible. Hopefully something emerges as the popular replacement (e.g. "Rocky"), and they support spinning up with the replacement. Anyone have agues/opinion on the most popular emerging path those providers will use, I'm all ears. Scott