Hello,
As you may or may not be aware, CentOS 8's EOL is 31 December 2021,
i.e. just over 2 months from now. After that date, Red Hat expects
CentOS 8 users to switch to CentOS 8 Stream or to a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux product.
At the moment BitFolk supports the self-install of CentOS 8 and that
is going to be in-place upgradeable to CentOS 8 Stream. And that's
it. That is the current extent of your choices for RHEL-like.
If you're a current CentOS 8 user what do you think you're going to
want to be using after it goes EOL?
It seems likely that there will be demand for CentOS 8 Stream and
later Stream releases, so we'll continue supporting those as best
we can¹.
RHEL itself is now free for use on up to 16 production systems, as
long as you sign up with Red Hat for an Individual Developer
subscription:
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-progra…https://developers.redhat.com/rhel8
We don't currently support the install of that, but if people want
it then we would. You install it like CentOS and then have to put in
your subscription details once it's booted. The same change of
installer and kernel would be necessary since it sees unlikely that
Red Hat are going to back down from disabling everything except KVM.
That does mean that you may not be able to get Red Hat to provide
you with any support ("come back when it's booted using our
kernel").
As far as CentOS replacement projects go, Rocky Linux and
Alma Linux have come to my attention. They aren't currently
supported but could be. They don't intend to drift much from RHEL's
settings so they will also require alternate installers and kernels.
Oracle Linux's installer and kernel continues to support Xen, it is
free for use (charges for support) and otherwise aims to be
binary-compatible with RHEL, like CentOS did. I get a little bit
sick in my own mouth at the idea of working with Oracle, but if
there's paying customers who don't then we will enable that.
So what do you CentOS users want to do?
Cheers,
Andy
¹ Red Hat goes out of their way to disable other virtualisation
methods than their own product, KVM. This means that you can't
currently install or run CentOS/RHEL 8 or later under Xen using
their packaged installer or kernel. It is only possible using the
third party kernel-ml package. Red Hat are the only major Linux
vendor to take this stance and as such we can't promise to always
be able to go against their intentions.
https://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2021/02/03/booting-the-centosrhel-install…
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Hi,
I am a (delighted!) relatively new BF user and run two dozen websites under Centos and Virtualmin, with no email as I keep email off my webserver.
I am fed up with Cpanel in multiple ways and want to drop the server where I currently have all my email and mail forwarders.
Is another VPS on Centos with Virtualmin a good route to manage my and my clients’ email?
Or is there a better solution for a mail server?
Cheers
Hugh
Hi,
You may recall that all through the first half of 2021 we've been
moving customer services off of certain servers in order to upgrade
the servers and put them back in service. That effort ground to
a halt in June because of other more pressing concerns. We're now
starting that up again to finish the job.
We sent notification emails to everyone who would be affected, but
this was back in June so you may have forgotten. These went to
customers on servers "hen" and "paradox", which are the last two
servers that need upgrade.
That notification email asked you to let us know if you need more
than 5 minutes of notice for the work to be done. If you did reply
to that, don't worry, we still have records of that and will give
you the amount of notice you asked for.
If you didn't reply then we are still assuming that 5 minutes of
notice at any time of day is fine and that's how we'll be proceeding
over the next couple of weeks. If that situation has changed then
you should look for the original notification email and reply to it
with your needs.
The last batch of notification emails were sent out to customers on
"hen" and "paradox" on Saturday 5 June 2021 with subject line:
We need to move your BitFolk VPS '$accountname' to other hardware
If you can't find it but still need to let us know, just email
support(a)bitfolk.com to open a support ticket. Again, this only
affects customers on servers "hen" and "paradox". Here's how to work
out which server your service is on:
https://bitfolk.com/customer_information.html#toc_3_Which_piece_of_actual_h…
Cheers,
Andy
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