Ask HN: What flavor of Linux do you run in the cloud and why? We have been working with Red Hat (yeah, big enterprise), however I'm inclined to advocate for a switch to Amazon's Linux. Like to hear others perspective. |
Ask HN: What flavor of Linux do you run in the cloud and why? We have been working with Red Hat (yeah, big enterprise), however I'm inclined to advocate for a switch to Amazon's Linux. Like to hear others perspective. |
With virtualenv, github, fabric, etc., deploying isn't as much of a challenge as it used to be, but I like to keep it as straightforward as possible.
For the day job, we use RedHat Enterprise, because our target market is enterprise, and that's the most widely accepted Enterprise Linux distro in the enterprise.
I'm not a particularly big fan of RH-based distros, but I vastly prefer RH to Solaris or Windows, so I count my blessings.
I've been struggling to find the value in their services to justify this trade off.
Compared to Solaris, it's cheaper, package management is much easier, and it has all the Linuxy goodness that corporations feel make them more agile.