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
