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Happily running OpenShift Origin on top of CentOS. > What does everyone else use for their server distros? Is debian the way to go? Ubuntu seems bloated but ma
by lima 8y ago
Happily running OpenShift Origin on top of CentOS.
> What does everyone else use for their server distros? Is debian the way to go? Ubuntu seems bloated but maybe I just don't know enough about the fat that is cut out of Ubuntu Server? CentOS and Fedora are stable but they seem like they update too slowly, is my assumption wrong?
CentOS/RHEL stability is exactly the reason why I use it. Red Hat spends a lot of money on quality assurance, and it shows. It's a very different experience than Ubuntu, which has a lot more breakage.
The Kubernetes/OpenShift packaging is mostly independent of the host operating system. My applications inside the containers mostly run on Fedora, CentOS + Software Collections and even bleeding-edge Ubuntu, but I'm happy to run a stable OS underneath.
CentOS/RHEL 7 moves a lot faster than previous releases, too. They even rebased OpenSSL for 7.4 to get HTTP/2 support, all while maintaining ABI compatibility.
Fedora is - by design - a lot less stable than CentOS/RHEL - it's the fast-moving upstream project.