[ale] [EXTERNAL] Re: Re: [ALE] So the winner is?

Tue May 18 13:19:26 EDT 2021

Derek,

16 Seat is great, but I like to have more, and who's to say I can't renew
without a cost. Plus, I like to get something Free.  I worry about
licensing stuff on RHEL.

DJ-Pfulio

I use Debian ( No Ubuntu ) , but 90% of the servers are RHEL based. I
support openSUSE ( member), but my bread and butter is as a Red Hat admin.
The Dev Subscription is great, because CentOS didn't give you
experience with Subscription Manager. Plus, I need to rebuild my Spacewalk
Server. My old Spacewalk is on CentOS 7. Not political. I don't think I can
install Spacewalk on RHEL, I will try. Licensing is my worry, not
political. CentOS was great for using Dogtag, Keycloak)  FreeIPA, Foreman
and Spacewalk to learn on. RHEL you have to have licenses for IDM (
Dogtag/Keycloak/FreeIPA ) and Satellite ( Foreman/Spacewalk ).

No Offense, Ubuntu still drives me up the wall because you do an
upgrade and things break. On all my Small  Board Computer, I look to see if
Armbian has a Debian base image to replace Ubuntu, just because doing
simple upgrade on Ubuntu 18 and 20, broke things and I had to start over.

Allen

I use openSUSE 70% of my stuff, I use CentOS/Red Hat for the stuff I have
to manage at work. Work doesn't take kindly to breaking stuff or spin up
stuff. INFOSEC doesn't like it.

Where I am working as a contractor, the overall agency made a deal with
Oracle to replace Red Hat. At first they made it sound like a replacement
for CentOS. They are serious about using Oracle. Ugh. Lucky, my department
doesn't fall under the IT Group any more, we still use Red Hat. We were
told that it's only kernel replacement and repo update. I might have to
download Oracle to see what is diff. Just Oracle, skin itches, even when I
use VirtualBox.

James

Again 70% openSUSE, in fact I am moving from LEAP to Tumbleweed. Tumbleweed
has been super stable and I don't have work about updating. When I worked
for Dell has been only time I managed SLE server with SAP. I loved it. I
wish SuSE would give dev seats like Red Hat because then I would set up SLE
in my lab.

So why CentOS for me

Keycloak/Dogtag/FreeIPA ( IDM )
Foreman ( Satellite 6 )
AWX ( Ansible Tower )

Spacewalk ( Even though it Satellite 5 ) .

These are my babies at work.

To the group

Uyuni? Hmmm I will have to look at it. Was surprise no one said anything
about AlmaLinux. Or for that matter Rocky Linux.

So, that why I was asking who the winners was because it seem the chooses
are, Oracle, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Red Hat ( Dev Account ), and now
Uyuni. I was wanting to see what my peers are using.

Good stuff guys, thanks .

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:15 AM Allen Beddingfield via Ale <ale at ale.org>
wrote:

> We are using SUSE Manager (which Uyuni is the upstream of) to manage
> approximately 500 systems.  For licensing reasons, I have a separate Uyuni
> installation for CentOS, OEL, and openSUSE.
> I can't imagine trying to manage all of this without it!  I don't even
> really do much with actually writing Salt states.  I can accomplish most
> everything I need to do by registering everything as Salt minions, then
> using the config channels for push configs.
> We also use it for push-patching.
> Allen B.
>
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
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> ________________________________________
> From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> on behalf of James Taylor via Ale <
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2021 10:10 AM
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> Cc: James Taylor
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [ale] Re:   [ALE] So the winner is?
>
> Have you had a chance to play with Uyuni much?
> I did an installation a while back, but other needs intervened and I never
> did any set up.
> -jt
>
>
> James Taylor
> 678-697-9420
> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
>
>
>
> >>> Allen Beddingfield via Ale <ale at ale.org> 5/18/2021 10:25 AM >>>
> That would be my go-to solution as well.  openSUSE Leap + Uyuni is a great
> setup.  I assume this is for a RHEL clone requirement?
>
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
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> Office 205-348-2251
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> ________________________________________
> From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> on behalf of James Taylor via Ale <
> ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2021 9:23 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Cc: James Taylor
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [ale]  [ALE] So the winner is?
>
> Why not openSUSE Leap?
> Do you need more Red Hat equivalence?
>
>
>
> James Taylor
> 678-697-9420
> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
>
>
>
> >>> Allen Beddingfield via Ale <ale at ale.org> 5/18/2021 9:45 AM >>>
> I don't like it, be we've been using OEL as a replacement for the handful
> of CentOS things we have.
>
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> Office of Information Technology
> The University of Alabama
> Office 205-348-2251
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>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> on behalf of Chuck Payne via Ale <
> ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2021 8:43 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Cc: Chuck Payne
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [ale] [ALE] So the winner is?
>
> Ok, Question for the group. I have a number of CentOS machines in my home
> lab that I need to replace.  Thus the subject of my email, who is now the
> true CentOS replacement?
>
> Has anyone tried it?
>
> I have a dev. account with Red Hat, they do give 16 seats, but I like to
> use something to replace CentOS.
>
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