[Cialug] Server Distros

[Dave Hala]

Our development environments are virtual machines that are identical to the
production environment.


On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 4:42 PM Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 1:53 PM Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
>
> > I pondered keeping rhel8 in production and running Fedora in development.
> > I even spun up a Fedora vm and tried it out.    Following the "develop on
> > when you run on rule" has worked well for me and I want to continue that
> > practice.  The stability of Fedora wasn't a consideration, the primary
> > consideration was that development and production environments must be an
> > identical match.
> >
>
> I'm curious about this... so you're saying that your company's policy is
> that the OS that paints the pixels on your developer's screens is the same
> OS that runs your production server workloads? That seems a bit extreme...
> I kinda doubt that there are companies that run Windows Server on
> developer's desktops because Windows Server is what runs in their
> datacenter.
>
> With VMs and containers it's very easy to match development environments to
> production and decouple that from whatever OS is running on the developer's
> desktop. That way developers can choose Macs or Windows or whatever.
>
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> Jeff Ollie
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