No ! It's not great news.. It's more like a take-it or leave-it approach. redhat expanded by an okay amount , no-cost for up to 16 production servers ok. AND ! it's thru the redhat subscriber program with strings attached - meaning when you leave the program so do RHEL based servers.
I did a bit more research and I think I'm going to have to agree with you actually. I like the fact that redhat has a free tier now, but now we don't have anything that replaces CentOS for more than 16 servers. I think this will push more people to Ubuntu, which is too much centralization in the Linux space. It should be no problem for big corporations to get redhat subscription, but even smaller companies can easily go over their 16 servers.
@Rodrigo Salles Thanks for the comment, just checked this out and they are in development right now. AWS is sponsoring their project, so I think it will have some potential!
I personally think it is. I'll put my central services (VPN, kubernetes masters, storage components) with RHEL, and put my dumb workers under CentOS stream. Having a worker down isn't that critical if the cluster is well balanced. So, for me, it's a go-time!
The benefit of RedHat / Centos / Fedora is that they are extremely similar. If you can admin Centos, of course you can admin a RHEL server. Why would this affect confidence levels? They are compiled from the same source and base RPMS.
I was talking from a beginner standpoint. Of course, knowing CentOS will allow you to admin redhat easily without a lot of issues. But, as a beginner working with rhel directly might give you more confidence in administering rhel servers instead of practicing on CentOS and then getting thrown into a live rhel environment.
@Felix Gs as far as I experienced, you still can use it without any updates, not sure what will happen with EPEL and Flatpak repos. But renew it for free -no, even if you have new developer profile -it will not work. But honestly, out of all distros I tried for NX12 and COMSOL, RHEL 8.4 is the most stable and fast. Perhaps I need to get a paid subscription...but...paying for linux :((((
Great video I think this is a good move lbh when it comes to enterprise you think of Microsoft and Redhat. Big business has zero problems paying for support contracts most of the complaining is coming from users that want a free ride. The same users that don't even contribute money or time to the open source community.
According to their website they will keep Oracle Linux as it is. On their website they even mention that is is a good alternative to CentOS. So I think they will play this out in their advantage.
