I agree with Rohit, EL7 is long past its due date and choosing to keep
supporting it is a risk for the project. I believe we should stop
recommending this dated OS for new environments now and start removing
support on the next major versions (e.g. 5.0) . Also, +1 on not
recommending the use of the other listed OSs.
Best regards,
João Jandre
On 6/21/24 08:49, Rohit Yadav wrote:
Related PRs, requesting for review:
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/8609
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/pull/409
Regards.
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From: Nux <n...@li.nux.ro>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2024 17:24
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org <dev@cloudstack.apache.org>
Cc: us...@cloudstack.apache.org <us...@cloudstack.apache.org>; Rohit Yadav
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Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Deprecate/remove support for EOL distros and hypervisors
By all means, remove CentOS7 and any EOL OS or component from the matrix
and recommendations!
Regards
On 2024-06-20 11:45, Rohit Yadav wrote:
+ Users
Just to be clear, what this thread is about - Deprecating/removing
documentation via the compatibility matrix for a component does not
necessarily mean CloudStack will not work on it, in fact it might (with
some additional pkg installation if required if we decide to transition
to JRE17/21) and community's testing. The discussion is whether from a
project point of view, what should users be advised that is considered
supported via the compatibility matrix page in the release notes. The
same applies for other distro/hosts, hypervisors, MySQL DB version.
Just a note for the community to be aware: EL7/CentOS7 active support
has already ended in 2020, and we've already supported it since the
last 3-4 years. It's only the security update/support ending by end
June 2024. So, if there's any future/potential security issue around
EL7, we will not be able to support that 18months moving forward (18
months being typical ACS LTS release support period). That's risk, I
think we logistically wouldn't be able to carry forward for the next
major release (4.20) in Q3/Q4 '24.
Refer: https://endoflife.date/centos
Regards.
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From: Nux <n...@li.nux.ro>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2024 15:21
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org <dev@cloudstack.apache.org>
Cc: Alex Mattioli <alex.matti...@shapeblue.com>
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Deprecate/remove support for EOL distros and
hypervisors
+1 what Alex said.
It's kind of wrong, but CentOS7 has such a large install base
(generally
and for Cloudstack, too) that I feel deprecating it right away would be
a mistake.
On 2024-06-20 10:45, Alex Mattioli wrote:
I'd like if we keep EL7 for at least one more version, the transition
path out of that is clear now but many cloud operators haven't
replaced
it yet.
On the rest +1
-----Original Message-----
From: Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2024 11:43 AM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: [DISCUSS] Deprecate/remove support for EOL distros and
hypervisors
All,
Referencing
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.19.0.0/releasenotes/compat.html,
some of the distros and hypervisors we support have reached or
reaching
EOL by end of this month.
Please review and advise how we should deprecating/remove the
following
for the next 4.20 release (i.e. compatibility matrix for the future
4.20 release notes):
Distros:
*
EL7 (CentOS 7, RHEL7, https://endoflife.date/centos)
*
Ubuntu 18.04 (https://endoflife.date/ubuntu)
Software requirements:
*
JRE 11 (Discuss - should we transition to support JRE/JDK 17 or 21,
for
4.20? https://endoflife.date/oracle-jdk And are all supported distros
have a JRE17/21 package/dependency availalble)
*
MySQL 5.6, 5.7 (https://endoflife.date/mysql)
Hypervisors:
*
KVM: Ubuntu 18.04 (https://endoflife.date/ubuntu), EL7
(https://endoflife.date/centos)
*
XenServer All versions except 8.x (retain note that it's not tested,
https://www.citrix.com/support/product-lifecycle/legacy-product-matrix.html)
*
XCP-ng: All versions except 8.2/LTS (https://endoflife.date/xcp-ng)
*
VMware: 6.5, 6.7 (https://endoflife.date/vcenter)
Regards.
