Michael Pawlowsky wrote:
Are there any other people using FC in a production enterprise environment?
Production, certainly. We have 7 fedora servers all providing public
facing services over a range of different functionalities. All are
running F11.
The constant upgrades are driving me nuts. We have machines at
FC8-FC9-FC10 and FC-11.
It's a bit of a pain, but we keep all of our machines on the latest
release (usually update a couple of weeks after the release). We treat
each upgrade as an opportunity to do scheduled maintainance on that
machine and twice a year seems to work out pretty well.
The main reason we are using FC is because one it's free (in a sense).
The next one is that it does include more recent versions of packages
that we use and are looking for the latest versions to take advantage of
some new features and so on.
Likewise.
So basically we are in a never ending cycles of upgrades. And since we
have had bad experiences trying to upgrade over the last version, our
policy is to back up the data, re-install and put back in all the data.
We went the other way. All of our upgrades are true upgrades over the
last version. We've never had a major issue when doing this (but plenty
of minor ones - all easily fixed). We've got at least one machine which
has done every release since FC1, others have been added along the way.
Our experience has certainly been that this causes less pain (and is
quicker) than a wipe and reinstall.
Also, I am wondering why it is not possible to simply keep upgrading
packages, kernel and so on, as opposed to coming up with new versions
every six months.
Well you can, sort of. One of our machines has been yum updated through
several versions. It's a pretty minimal install, but it's had no more
problems than the machines which did the officially supported updates.
To make things more difficult, our servers need to be up 24/7.
Surely you have scheduled downtime for any server? We just link our
scheduled maintainance to the dates for the Fedora updates and kill two
birds with one stone.
Is FC simply a bad choice for enterprise production.
It depends on your priorities. It actually works out really well for us.
I'm starting to want to try CentOS soon. Unfortunately this will mean
not always being able to take advantage of the latest features in
software and so on.
Well that's the downside of stability.
Hope this helps
Simon.
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