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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We have been pretty consistent in deploying CentOS 7 on physical hardware where Kolla Ansible deploys its containers. However, we're going to be switching to Debian 10.8.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It looks like Kolla Ansible likely won't care which distro is installed on the physical hardware, and so some nodes could have CentOS 7 and others have Debian 10.8. Long-term, we'll replace the CentOS 7 machines with Debian 10.8 and re-deploy.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kolla Container images will still be CentOS 7, but we will be recreating Kolla images with Debian and deploying those long term too. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is this supported? Any obvious issues we should be aware of? We will have the same interface names, so we will be pretty consistent in terms of the environment - but wanted to see if there was any gotchas that we didn't think of.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Also, I guess I should ask if there are any specific Debian 10.8 issues we should be aware of?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Has anybody else done this? :)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Eric<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>