On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 7:38 PM, David Nalley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> (Disclaimer: nofi!) >> >> Do people run Fedora on production platforms? Isn't CentOS/RHEL the >> distribution for production and Fedora for Desktops and cutting edge test >> machines? >> >> Wido > > You might be surprised. Even I am surprised at some of the folks using > Fedora in production for their compute nodes. They do tend to be like > you though, Wido, doing stuff on the edge of where KVM/libvirt > currently is, instead of where EL6 left them. > > --David >
I'd also make a distinction between the compute nodes themselves, and the OS responsible for the CloudStack management server. In my world, we are quite conservative with the compute nodes, but require the newer packages available in the Fedora repos (vs. CentOS or RHEL). Example: In 2011, Apache Qpid was significantly behind in the RHEL repos, while Fedora was close to that project's latest release. In that example, the Fedora distro was actually more stable for our purposes. I'm absolutely fine with skipping Fedora for this first release, but I would prefer if it was one of our target OS types going forward. -chip
