> Am 30.09.2015 um 16:25 schrieb Jeff Palmer <[email protected]>: > > Arnall, > > > This advice is less of an haproxy specific response, and more of > general information. > > As someone who's tried to manage mixed infrastructure, I would push > back if possible, unles syour organization has decided to move to > freebsd entirely. >
Very few do that. FreeBSD fulfills its purposes, though. Even if you try to standardize on one „flavor“ of Linux, you will still end up with other flavors - simply because not everything runs on your particular flavor. And you’re not going to run all of your applications on all of your platforms anyway. So the QA-effort should be manageable. But that doesn’t mean it’s wise to introduce a half dozen different platforms, either - unless you have enough people to handle all of it. How many systems (with Debian) are we talking about anyway? And how many HA-Proxies are supposed to be migrated? What are the sysadmin’s technical points for moving? Besides probably not wanting to deal with Debian’s head-ache-inducing idea of an OS - that’s a given ;-) Unless OP is doing some *really fancy stuff*, there’s IMO no pure technical show-stopper for a switch.
