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@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:
They were. You are thinking x86 commodity space. But in the enterprise, we were using them heavily for a very, very long time.
Like I said, LPARs and similar tech from other vendors (don't even remember the names now) were much closer to containers than to proper VMs.
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@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:
Yes, if you have microservices, which is getting traction but will be a long time before most workloads are that way, it can be very good to have minuscule containers to handle them individually.
It's pretty much the default to all new software that gets developed. New version to existing legacy stuff is not included of course.
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@dyasny said in Testing oVirt...:
@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:
They were. You are thinking x86 commodity space. But in the enterprise, we were using them heavily for a very, very long time.
Like I said, LPARs and similar tech from other vendors (don't even remember the names now) were much closer to containers than to proper VMs.
LPARs are traditionally considered the "most proper" VM, they are the heaviest weight. A full VM, like ESXi produces, is the closest thing to them in the commodity X86 space today. LPARs were nothing like containers. Containers share a kernel, LPARs shared nothing.
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@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:
ZoL isn't where the frenzy was.
I missed the FBSD frenzy, in fact, I haven't seen anything resembling a frenzy around that old thing for about 10-12 years now. I wish there was one - moving companies to Linux from a pre-existing Unix setup is the easiest sell ever
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@dyasny said in Testing oVirt...:
@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:
Yes, if you have microservices, which is getting traction but will be a long time before most workloads are that way, it can be very good to have minuscule containers to handle them individually.
It's pretty much the default to all new software that gets developed. New version to existing legacy stuff is not included of course.
Yes, but there is a lot of legacy stuff that isn't going anywhere. Most people have to deal with legacy stuff indefinitely.
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@dyasny said in Testing oVirt...:
@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:
ZoL isn't where the frenzy was.
I missed the FBSD frenzy, in fact, I haven't seen anything resembling a frenzy around that old thing for about 10-12 years now. I wish there was one - moving companies to Linux from a pre-existing Unix setup is the easiest sell ever
No one cared that it was FreeBSD, it was 100% about ZFS. In fact, companies packaged FreeBSD to hide it and touted only ZFS as the reason to use their stuff.
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@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:
Yes, but there is a lot of legacy stuff that isn't going anywhere. Most people have to deal with legacy stuff indefinitely.
I get recruiter calls all the time, and they all want the new shiny tech, not old legacy knowledge. At least all the recruiters who have a decent offer on hand. The ones who want old school sysadmins to work on old systems that aren't going anywhere, are offering miniscule wages.
And like I mentioned above - there are means of dealing with legacy stuff in containers, just like when vmware was starting to become prominent, a lot of effort was invested in supporting older OS inside a VM, so that people would be able to move away from old hardware
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@dyasny said in Testing oVirt...:
@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:
Yes, but there is a lot of legacy stuff that isn't going anywhere. Most people have to deal with legacy stuff indefinitely.
I get recruiter calls all the time, and they all want the new shiny tech, not old legacy knowledge. At least all the recruiters who have a decent offer on hand. The ones who want old school sysadmins to work on old systems that aren't going anywhere, are offering miniscule wages.
Tell that to the financial sector
Developers get big bucks doing new work. IT gets big bucks supporting bad development.
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@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:
No one cared that it was FreeBSD, it was 100% about ZFS. In fact, companies packaged FreeBSD to hide it and touted only ZFS as the reason to use their stuff.
There were a few companies that managed to sell some ZFS based stuff, but I really wouldn't call it a craze. And all the major SAN vendors caught up and produced their own stuff with the same featureset, only stable
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@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:
Tell that to the financial sector
Actually, the latest few calls, all about the very shiny and new devopsy stack involved, were from financial companies - old prominent banks and a couple of hedge funds. As Wall-street as they ever come.
Developers get big bucks doing new work. IT gets big bucks supporting bad development.
Or good development, it's an ongoing process after all, bugs get fixed, features get introduced, more bugs come up etc etc etc
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@dyasny said in Testing oVirt...:
@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:
No one cared that it was FreeBSD, it was 100% about ZFS. In fact, companies packaged FreeBSD to hide it and touted only ZFS as the reason to use their stuff.
There were a few companies that managed to sell some ZFS based stuff, but I really wouldn't call it a craze. And all the major SAN vendors caught up and produced their own stuff with the same featureset, only stable
The craze was with the end users. One of the strongest fanboy cultures I've ever witnessed in IT.
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@dyasny said in Testing oVirt...:
@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:
Tell that to the financial sector
Actually, the latest few calls, all about the very shiny and new devopsy stack involved, were from financial companies - old prominent banks and a couple of hedge funds. As Wall-street as they ever come.
Yeah, DevOps in finance is old hat. They've been doing that for quite a while.
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@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:
Yeah, DevOps in finance is old hat. They've been doing that for quite a while.
devops, config management, containers, kubernetes, a bunch of various big-data tech. When I see that mentioned, I can easily imagine what the structure of their currently developed software is - microservices all the way, no legacy involved.
And if anyone but us two is reading this - DevOps isn't new, it's as ancient as companies like Ford and Toyota, ask any business major (think of that over your next smoothie, young hipsters)
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@dyasny said in Testing oVirt...:
@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:
Yeah, DevOps in finance is old hat. They've been doing that for quite a while.
devops, config management, containers, kubernetes, a bunch of various big-data tech. When I see that mentioned, I can easily imagine what the structure of their currently developed software is - microservices all the way, no legacy involved.
Big business tends to list requirements that they sense as trends, long before they use them internally.
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@dyasny said in Testing oVirt...:
Can you show any research, benchmarks, stats, anything that shows Fedora is actually better and more stable than an EL distribution?
Define "better" and "stable". And for who?
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@obsolesce said in Testing oVirt...:
@dyasny said in Testing oVirt...:
Can you show any research, benchmarks, stats, anything that shows Fedora is actually better and more stable than an EL distribution?
Define "better" and "stable". And for who?
Right, Fedora has been faster and more stable for us. CentOS was much slower, lacked solid features, and had support issues (because it was unable to continue to support living software that was still updating while the OS had stagnated.)
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Because of Fedora release schedule, I don't have to rely to much on using additional repos for stuff like php, databases, etc.
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@dyasny Lol I agree with that. People in many industries are constantly renaming things to make it sound new and raise the hype.
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@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:
Big business tends to list requirements that they sense as trends, long before they use them internally.
Maybe, but the interviews were with the guys already implementing the tech, and they were quite happy to describe what is already done and why they wanted me to join up
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@scottalanmiller said in Testing oVirt...:
Right, Fedora has been faster and more stable for us. CentOS was much slower, lacked solid features, and had support issues (because it was unable to continue to support living software that was still updating while the OS had stagnated.)
What exactly was CentOS slower at? What features were lacking? How exactly it could not support "living software"?
