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As someone who's not a coder, out of curiosity, what kind of services and applications can only work on RHEL, and how hard would it be to make those distro-agno
by vladvasiliu 3y ago
As someone who's not a coder, out of curiosity, what kind of services and applications can only work on RHEL, and how hard would it be to make those distro-agnostic?
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- okasaki 3y agoIt depends. Most of them are undocumented, have no testing and have accumulated years of RHEL specific stuff (RPMs, using EPEL for dependencies, ansible). At the same time they service hundreds of important users per day, making them difficult to change. Our "cloud" also only offers RHEL-like images (Centos and now Rocky), so getting another distro involves getting a special exception and installing it from iso.
- drdebug 3y agoOften things can be ported easily without much effort, but the issue lies in validation and testing, there are often corner cases that need to be identified and tested, it can cost a lot of time and effort and it's not always feasible. Redhat knows it may be cheaper to purchase RHEL subscriptions in that case.