Small update after a few months:
- With CentOS Stream 8 being used more actively as a base for RHEL 8.6, we had a few places we had to adjust things (most prominently changes to Ansible packaging) for staying compatible with CS8. This is great, as it means Stream works as designed and we keep uptodate with changes that will land in a future version of RHEL (and its rebuilds).
- However, this also meant that we did changes where we have no good way to ensure backwards compatibility with the existing stable RHEL (and its rebuilds).
- Based on discussions in the release and infra teams, we have decided to add Almalinux 8 as a tested platform to our piplines (currently only in nightly, but we’re planning to backport these changes to existing stable releases too).
That means, the listing in the very first post, now should read:
Tested: CentOS 8 Stream, Almalinux 8
Supported: RHEL, Rocky
You may ask why exactly Alma, and not Rocky. This was decided by yours truly using a fair dice and the fact that the Vagrant boxes of Alma looked more regularly updated than the ones from Rocky at the time I have started implementing this. (It really shouldn’t matter which rebuild we’re testing on, they are all compatible, huh?)