I’ve come across Red Hat allot lately and am wondering if I need to get studying. I’m an avid Ubuntu server user but don’t want to get stuck only knowing one distro. What is the way to go if i want to know as much as I can for use in real world situations.

  • Kool_Newt@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    A distro can make automation more difficult than it needs to be. As I mentioned in my examples, Preseed sucks, have you ever used it? And of course Ansible works on pretty much any distro, but Debian family distros are made with the expectation of user input, such as expecting configuration values during package installation and this has to be worked around. It’s not impossible, just more work and testing. When you’re automating CentOS and Ubuntu next to each other, you’ll realize extra Ubuntu related code.

    Not a big deal, it’s just minor preferences.

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      1 year ago

      but Debian family distros are made with the expectation of user input, such as expecting configuration values during package installation

      Any examples? I never installed such a package.