Same here with the juniper recommendation, they have recommend the Golden release 16.1R7 for us also
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 16, 2018, at 2:59 PM, Saku Ytti <s...@ytti.fi> wrote: > > Hey, > >> Wait for a golden release, ask JTAC about the next golden release coming >> out. Maybe 17.3R2 or R3. They will be highly tested and classified as >> very safe for production use immediately. > > I usually mature my images on SCSI spindles on VAX machines for at > least two year to really bring out the stableness. > > Real talk, Juniper has done significant work on rebasing the JunOS on > single branch with compelling testing story, I believe their story, I > believe newer JunOS are better. And generally stability is very > situational, release having 1 bug affecting you greatly is far worse > image to you, than image having 1M bugs not affecting you. > I exercise similar methodology for all vendors > > a) start with latest long term supported image > b) test to see it's not obviously broken, if it is obviously broken, > contact vendor for assistance > c) if not obviously broken, deploy > d) when you need new features, restart the process, when you need bug > fixes install rebuild > > Long term: > > a) ask vendor to report you quarterly in which phase of development > they found bugs and how much > b) use that information to choose vendors who are getting better > according the metrics, i.e. finding issues earlier in the process > > We need to make good testing story economic necessity. I know some > vendor testing initiatives have been shot down, when there has not > been any external pressure to invest on the work. So we can achieve > lot of good, if we are asking vendors to report the right things to > us. > I think in last two years all vendors are getting lot better in this. > If I had to guess, I don't think it's the networking folk we get to > thank here, I think it's the software focused shops who are asking for > the right data from vendors. We should join them. > > -- > ++ytti > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp