Red Hat EL8 is available now since May 7th. It’s not particularly exciting IMO. Many “new” features have been available on other distros quite a while ago. Here, I want to evaluate how easy it is to adopt my existing ansible playbooks on this new version of Red Hat.
Immediate adaption efforts are need – that’s what I feel when I started to mess around with the latest version of Redhat. “Good! Adaptation, improvisation, but your weakness is not your technique.” – Morpheus Systemd First thing I notice is many services have been migrated to systemd. That means the traditional service and…
There are times when updating to the latest minor release is not preferred, maybe a software compatibility issue or just plain stupidity. On RHEL 6.1 and beyond, one can utilzie the releasever parameter to lock the update to specific one. For example: yum –releasever=6.2 update But what about RHEL5.x? Redhat suggested mounting the corresponding ISO…