[CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

Tue Jan 5 22:58:26 UTC 2021
Jamie Burchell <mail at jamieburchell.com>

>  If security was a priority for you, as it was for me, then CentOS wasn't
really suitable for public-facing services

You mean in terms of security patch release time presumably?

> If you're building software that you intend to deploy on RHEL

We're not building or compiling software.

On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 22:51, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 1/5/21 11:32 AM, Jamie Burchell wrote:
> > is the change a non-issue for my use-case?
>
>
> Probably.  For a lot of users, Stream is a drop-in replacement that's
> better than CentOS was, because it gets updates consistently and doesn't
> suffer from periods in which no updates are available, including
> security updates.
>
> If security was a priority for you, as it was for me, then CentOS wasn't
> really suitable for public-facing services, but CentOS Stream might be.
>
> If you're building software that you intend to deploy on RHEL, Stream
> might not be a suitable build root for you.  Compiling software in a
> Stream build root may result in a binary that has dependencies which
> aren't yet available in RHEL.  And if you're building kernel modules
> (like Phil @elrepo), then there is the issue that the kernel isn't
> subject to RHEL's ABI policy, but Red Hat developers have expressed
> interest in making the kernel interfaces more stable and using external
> kernel module builds as a test to flag interfaces that have changed.  So
> that situation may improve...
>
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