All, Since CentOS8 (not stream) is officially EOL at the end of this year, I'd say keep supporting it until then, but don't support it past then. This may be a good 6-month transition to support Rocky/Alma/Springdale/whatever. Realistically, I'd be surprised if one of those worked and one didn't since they should be by-and-large binary-compatible rebuilds from RHEL sources. Possibly slightly lagging in release times, but compatible.
Rocky is nice since it isn't "tied" to another company, which is the obvious double-edged sword of funding, etc. But it may mean it aligns with the ASF more closely in spirit. Alma has only said they'll support it through the RHEL 8 lifecycle (2029): https://almalinux.org/ "Until when will we support AlmaLinux OS? AlmaLinux partners has committed to supporting AlmaLinux OS until 2029, ...", which is generous, but they do stem from selling CloudLinux. So it could become paid-for pretty easily. CentOS Stream could be fine or a disaster, and it is hard to tell: "a rolling preview of future RHEL kernels and features." as the RedHat CTO said seems to imply cloudstack might run into a lot more issues due to the squishy nature of kernel releases, kvm/libvirt, etc. I don't think it will be unusable, but it will be hard to say what is supported. (E.g. what version is "Centos 8 Stream"? Stuff can change out from under you pretty quickly in that paradigm. Even rolling distros like Debian have point releases. My $0.02 would likely to transition to Rocky, but it may be prudent to wait a month or two to make sure it really is stable since they *just* released a GA. How hard would it be to make a test build on the new Rocky GA and see if it looks similar/identical to the CentOS 8.4? Not sure how CloudStack's CICD is setup, internally. Thanks, -Nathan McGarvey On 6/22/21 9:41 AM, n...@li.nux.ro wrote: > Hi, > > Drop support for CentOS8, 8-Stream or both? > > Regards > > On 2021-06-22 08:41, Rohit Yadav wrote: >> All, >> >> With GA release of Rocky Linux 8.4 >> (https://docs.rockylinux.org/release_notes/8.4) does it make sense now >> to completely drop support for CentOS8 in the next major release? I >> did a quick test and it seems rpms built on centos8 container continue >> to work on Rocky release. Thoughts? >> >> Regards, >> Rohit Yadav