On Wed, 03 Jul 2024, Braden McGrath via FreeIPA-users wrote:
Rob Crittenden wrote:
It appears that the centos 7 builds were done incorrectly. Given it is
EOL it is not likely to be addressed. We have little influence in centos.
rob
Ugh, that's what I was a little afraid of. Guess it's just that much
more of a reason I need to migrate to new servers. I saw your
post/reply elsewhere on this list to someone asking how to
migrate/upgrade, linking to official RHEL8 docs.
Unfortunately my non-profit doesn't have the money for RHEL, so I was
looking at either Rocky or Alma, because trying to run FreeIPA Server
on top of Ubuntu/Debian just feels wrong and fraught with peril.
FreeIPA-client seems to work OK-enough on .deb systems but I'd be
afraid of trying to run the Server side there... or is this a
completely unfounded and stupid fear? (The org is almost 100% Ubuntu,
with the exception of our FreeIPA VMs and two business apps that
require CentOS7.)
If you are interested in the support, it still makes sense to talk to
Red Hat people because there are often ways to get substantial
discounts. IPA support is included into standard RHEL subscription
support.
With Rocky or AlmaLinux I am not aware of any specific support for IPA.
May be companies behind those projects provide something similar in
their commercial offerings but I am not sure. The only venue you'd be
open to is this mailing list. From my experience, Alma/Rocky do rebuilds
of what comes from CentOS Stream or RHEL and they hardly test those
rebuilds beyond basic installation. We know that because AlmaLinux 8.10
builds are broken right now as can be seen in a separate thread.
With Ubuntu or Debian it is pretty much the same or even worse because
there is a single maintainer heroically uplifting the whole set of
packages.
I'm guessing that the process to move from CentOS7 over to Alma or
Rocky would be pretty similar to the "non RHEL7 to RHEL8" procedure?
No. AlmaLinux attempts to be RHEL compatible so you need to look into
'RHEL 7 to RHEL 8' migration documentation.
--
/ Alexander Bokovoy
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Security / Identity Management Engineering
Red Hat Limited, Finland
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