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Moving away from RHEL based distros, whats good ? (lemmy.ml)

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Hi, mostly i use REHL based distros like Centos/Rocky/Oracle for the solutions i develop but it seems its time to leave..

What good server/minimal distro you use ?

Will start to test Debian stable.

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[–] kwozyman 0 points 1 year ago

For all my non-compliant, non-supported hosts I started using Fedora CoreOS quite successfully.

If you package your applications as containers, you should have a very easy time with it. It's based off ostree, which means a couple of things:

immutable (so not easy to break, I guess?)
atomic upgrades, which means you upgrade in a single step
atomic and full rollbacks, which means if an upgrade breaks your host, you can rollback to the exact previous version booted simply by choosing it from grub
still based on rpm, so you will still have a grasp of it, even though many things are completely different
other benefits I forgot, I'm sure :)

All with the added benefit that once you go towards containers you can change your distro with minimal effort, so there's that.