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

On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 12:42, Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>
wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 11:17, Simon Matter <simon.matter at
invoca.ch>
> wrote:
> >
> >> > On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 07:50, Simon Matter <simon.matter at
invoca.ch>
> >> wrote:
>
> > I didn't say or mean that. My answer is that it is complicated and
more
> > meant that the software you expect requires more than the industry in
> > general is willing to pay to keep going. 10-20 years ago they were and
so
> > the software was able to be 'mainstream'. As less people use
it, and less
> > people are willing to pay for its maintenance the harder it is to keep
> > 'running safely'. Tomcat and Imagemagick have had a LOT of
severe
> security
>
> I'd like to correct myself, ImageMagick was not simply removed but
> replaced by GraphicsMagick. From what I read it should be a usable
> solution as it's a fork from IM.
>
> For the Tomcat thing, I don't agree. Tomcat is widely used and I think
the
> security concerns are not the real reason to remove it. It more likely
> that RedHat simply likes to sell more JBoss EAP. It's their right to do
so
> but it's a removal of important functionality of the base RHEL package.
>
>
I honestly have no idea how much Tomcat is used anymore. The various places
that I worked previously or have contacts with have killed it off by moving
whatever used it to external cloud services versus JBOSS or anything else.
That is just an anecdata but it is all I have on the subject.


> Regards,
> Simon
>
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Stephen J Smoogen.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 7:43 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I honestly have no idea how much Tomcat is used anymore. The various places
> that I worked previously or have contacts with have killed it off by moving
> whatever used it to external cloud services versus JBOSS or anything else.
> That is just an anecdata but it is all I have on the subject.
>
>
Red Hat still has one of its offering based on Apache and Tomcat, named
JBoss Web Server:
https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/jboss-middleware/web-server

and the latest update available (5.4, based on upstream Tomcat 9) in
November 2020, had the bits for RH EL 6, 7 and 8.
See also docs entry page here:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_web_server/5.4/

So it is non considered a dead technology, even for business use cases....

Gianluca