Wonder what distro I should use if I set up a libvirt system instead.
Should be something stable but I dunno how sensitive virtualization is to age.
Like CentOS, sure it's probably nice and stable, but how much did one miss out on by having your hypervisors stuck on CentOS 7 from 2014 until quite recently.
Should be something stable but I dunno how sensitive virtualization is to age.
Like CentOS, sure it's probably nice and stable, but how much did one miss out on by having your hypervisors stuck on CentOS 7 from 2014 until quite recently.
@quad Definitely do not go with CentOS.
Alpine would be nice, I'm sure, but the lack of glibc may end up breaking stuff (or maybe not).
Hmm... Why not Ubuntu LTS?
@L1Cafe Ubuntu LTS seems sensible, but I just kind of hate Ubuntu because of Canonical. 18.04 switching to netplan was the final nail in the coffin and from then on I kind of just quit running Ubuntu on servers unless Debian was too outdated for things to function.
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@tk @quad Debian is a good second choice. Definitely more up to date than CentOS, but still lags behind Ubuntu greatly.
If I were you I'd just pull the plug, go full on with Alpine and see where it takes me. Perhaps not for the whole infrastructure, but as a small experiment.
I've been using Alpine for my Nginx loadbalancer and my mail server, and everything seems to be running smoothly.
Granted, Nginx is pretty standard and so is the mail server, but still.
It's too focused on container use, so many features sysadmins would like for bare metal just don't work. For example they ship snmpd but it's broken out of the box and really hacky to get working again.