Hi Vladimir, is it possible that you upgrade management and hypervisors hosts for the next major release - we are not talking removing packaging support for current LTS release/updates but for the next MAJOR release.
Upgrading management hosts is as simple as introducing additional ones and removing old ones. Regards, Andrija On Fri, 19 Apr 2019 at 16:31, Vladimir Melnik <v.mel...@uplink.ua> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > As for me, I still have 3 hosts running CentOS 6 and 2 management servers > in one of my production environments. > > Also I have 1 management servers running CentOS 6 in another environment. > > If my voice counts, I'd propose -1. > > Thanks for attention :-) > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 07:44:58AM +0000, Rohit Yadav wrote: > > All, > > > > > > With CentOS8 around the corner to be released sometime around the > summer, I would like to propose to deprecate CentOS6 as support management > server host distro and KVM host distro. Non-systemd enabled Ubuntu releases > have been already deprecated [1]. > > > > > > The older CentOS6 version would hold us back as we try to adapt, use and > support newer JRE version, kvm/libvirt version, the Linux kernel, and > several other older dependencies. Both CentOS6 and RHEL6 have reached EOL > on May 10th, 2017 wrt full updates [1]. > > > > > > If we don't have any disagreements, I propose we remove el6 packaging > support in the next major release - 4.13. But, if there are users and > organisations that will be badly impacted, let 4.13 be the last of releases > to support el6 and we definitely remove el6 support in 4.14. > > > > What are your thoughts? > > > > > > [1] EOL date wiki reference: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Hypervisor+and+Management+Server+OS+EOL+Dates > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Rohit Yadav > > > > Software Architect, ShapeBlue > > > > https://www.shapeblue.com > > > > rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com > > www.shapeblue.com > > Amadeus House, Floral Street, London WC2E 9DPUK > > @shapeblue > > > > > > > > -- > V.Melnik > -- Andrija Panić
