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 chkconfig commands are no longer working. Fortunately, systemd is quite easy to work with, for…
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 and set it up as a local repository. Lots of work especially when it’s required…