|
On 11/03/2017 06:09 AM, Peter Rex
wrote:
Security flaws mean nothing to the application I use
Ansible for, but stability does. Control servers are in
private networks, and they configure equipment guarded by
murderous thugs, so no problem there.
The control servers don't get updated that often, but when
they do, it's not good if things stop working, because, you
know, the equipment they configure is owned by people who
employ murderous thugs to guard it. Kind of a problem.
We originally looked at Ansible and thought, OK, Red Hat,
nothing more stable than that. Ansible, flagship product. It
seemed like a good bet, but turned out not to be, that Red Hat
wasn't likely to deprecate a major version of a software
package during the lifetime of one of its operating systems,
in this case EL6. Given how much of a moving target Ansible
has turned out to be, I definitely should have subscribed to
epel-announce, to, you know, minimize the chance of getting
murdered, but here we are.
Make sure that the murderous thugs do not find out that you confused
the stability of RHEL ( which is a commercial product backed by an
enterprise which asks for money and delivers services ... and rather
long term stable APIs for most of the software they offer ) with
the one of EPEL which is a community-driven-best-effort-based
product
wolfy ( Who's not afraid of murderous thugs because he's
protected by a murderous 3mo old cat -- it murdered several toys
already)
Anyhow, thanks for the feedback.
|
_______________________________________________
epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
