<div dir="ltr">I<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;display:inline"> agree with Logan that it is personal preference. </div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;display:inline">
<br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;display:inline">I will give you my opinion: I created a 4 node cluster using Ubuntu and if I had to do it again I would use CentOS. I find CentOS configuration much more consistent; Ubuntu uses a combination of Upstart and rc scripts which can be quite a nightmare when you need things to startup and shutdown in a certain order. Ubuntu tends to have much more frequent package (including kernels!) updates which may be good for certain use-cases but I find it tedious to maintain.</div>
</div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;display:inline">I am sure for every complaint I have about Ubuntu someone has an equal complaint about CentOS.</div>
</div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;display:inline">- Sam</div>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Logan McNaughton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:logan@bacoosta.com" target="_blank">logan@bacoosta.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Honestly a lot of it has to do with personal preference, or what your organization is comfortable with.</p>
<p dir="ltr">As far as guests go, CentOS has no official guest images (qcow2/raw). Ubuntu has very good official images. So does Red Hat but those aren't free.</p>
<p dir="ltr">As far as "ease to deploy", Ubuntu's recommend strategy is using MAAS/Juju. Red hat recently released RDO (openstack.red <a href="http://hat.com" target="_blank">hat.com</a>), which uses an installer called Packstack. You'll just need to research those options and pick one. Another good option for CentOS deployment is Mirantis' Fuel (<a href="http://fuel.mirantis.com" target="_blank">fuel.mirantis.com</a>).</p>
<p dir="ltr">Currently Fuel only supports CentOS/RHEL but they say Ubuntu support is coming.</p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 12, 2013 11:42 AM, "Haitao Jiang" <<a href="mailto:jianghaitao@gmail.com" target="_blank">jianghaitao@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I would like to get some feedback on which OS to choose for OpenStack<br>
Host OS, CentOS 6.4 or Ubuntu 12.04. Just from technical point of<br>
view, e.g.<br>
<br>
- Ease of deploy<br>
<br>
- Support of new features<br>
<br>
- Performance benchmarks<br>
<br>
- Community support<br>
<br>
- Number of bugs<br>
<br>
etc.<br>
<br>
My impression so far is that Ubuntu is more up to date with the<br>
support of OpenStack, it has newer kernel and packages. For examples,<br>
like Python version. Ubuntu also seems has more community support etc.<br>
But at the same time, Redhat is rank as one of contributors to the<br>
OpenStack code base.<br>
<br>
Any input or comment will be welcomed and appreciated<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
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