[CentOS-devel] [EXT] First round of RHEL programs announced

Wed Jan 20 15:46:03 UTC 2021
Peter Georg <peter.georg at physik.uni-regensburg.de>

On 20/01/2021 15.20, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 7:48 AM Peter Georg <
> peter.georg at physik.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
> 
>> On 20/01/2021 14.14, Mike McGrath wrote:
>>> Hi all, I know this was a hot topic on the list so I thought I'd share
>>> today's blog post which covers no-cost RHEL for small production
>> workloads
>>> and no-cost RHEL for customer development teams.  Keep in mind there are
>>> other programs coming, these just got done first.
>>>
>>>
>> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel
>>>
>>> Bullet Points:
>>>
>>>      - Self-Support RHEL for no-cost in production use cases of up to 16
>>>      systems.
>>>      - No-cost RHEL for customer development teams (larger number of
>> systems
>>>      for non-production cases).
>>>      - Available no later than February 1
>>>      - Single Sign-on via a Red Hat account, or Github, Twitter, Facebook
>> or
>>>      other accounts (You'll soon not need to provide all kinds of personal
>>>      information like you used to).
>>
>>
>> In the blog post it is also mentioned that some users "had specific
>> technical questions [...]. We’ve been listening. We know that CentOS
>> Linux was fulfilling a wide variety of important roles."
>>
>> So I now ask myself: Has any of these questions actually been answered
>> by now? I'm one of these users and so far I only got an automatic reply.
>>
>> Probably not the correct topic to ask this question, but I simply didn't
>> know where else to ask.
>>
>>
> I don't know about all of the questions but there were specific ones I've
> personally been following about the sign-up/sign-in process (simplified as
> noted in the blog post).  We're also aware of some CI cases that we've
> looked into.  I expect we'll have a blog post or video about best practices
> on how to automate registration and de-registration as well as automated
> clean-up of registered systems that are now gone.  Another big one is
> entitlement enforcement (IE: in the old world when you hit your 16 server
> limit, you're prevented from attaching new systems.  It is universally
> hated.).  We've got some changes coming there to address general quality of
> life issues like that.
> 
>              -Mike

I thought about technical questions concerning CentOS Stream. We have 
been told several times by Red Hat employees on this mailing list to 
forward these questions to centos-questions at redhat.com as well.

Do you happen to know who is dealing with these questions or might be 
able to give a status update?

Probably the linked blog post actually does not refer to these kind of 
technical questions, but solely to technical questions concerning RHEL 
subscriptions (like the issues you mentioned in your last mail).

Peter