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You'd be surprised how many paying RHEL customers use community-contributed Ansible roles because there's no way for a company even as large as IBM to employ ex
by geerlingguy 3y ago
You'd be surprised how many paying RHEL customers use community-contributed Ansible roles because there's no way for a company even as large as IBM to employ experts in all the various software RHEL users install to maintain integrations.
That's the long-term effect of starving the wider community: you lose having 'great' integrations, and you end up with poorly-written and barely-maintained integrations for anything that's not extremely mainstream, and so you start losing the customers who use anything outside the core set of products extensively.
- bragr 3y agoI'll just copy paste what I said in another comment: >I'm not saying this is the morally right, "best" in the long term sense, or otherwise socially optimal choice, I'm just saying it's the standard IBM choice.
- geerlingguy 3y agoAh, missed that ;)
- berkes 3y agoYou make it sound as if it's without doubt that a) a significant number of RedHat users require Ansible and b) those users will stop using RedHat if this Ansible integration becomes unavailable. I highly doubt both. I don't have numbers to back it up, but neither do I see any indication that it will matter to RedHats baseline.