Re: Beginner Question
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James Bayer
konstantin,
only red hat can distribute RHEL. CF is OSS, therefore centos is what we build and distribute as part of the cloud foundry foundation projects as a bosh stemcell. i'm not sure what source you got this comment from: *This is due to an inherent security issue with the way RedHat handles user namespacing and container isolation.* BOSH does not use cgroups and namespaces itself. the cloud foundry runtime that is optionally installed on top of BOSH uses cgroups and namespaces as part of either warden (for DEAs) or garden (for diego with garden-linux). when using garden-linux, cloud foundry relies on user namespaces for enhanced isolation, which are not yet in the kernel for centos7.1 or rhel7.1 and lower, which i believe is still at kernel version 3.10 [1]. in addition to the kernel features for cgroups and namespaces, cloud foundry does a lot of testing for container file systems, and is currently using AUFS and ubuntu 14.04LTS with a 3.19 kernel. we have found that AUFS has the best stability and features set that we need compared to btrfs and overlay (aka overlayfs). also, soon the cloud foundry stemcells using ubuntu will support kernel 4.2 because of ubuntu support timelines. the nuances of the kernel and os distribution really do matter quite a bit. the cf engineering team strives to make the linux experience as much like a linux appliance as possible. i hope that helps. [1] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/200574/centos-7-1-still-using-outdate-kernel-3-10-how-to-upgrade-to-kernel-4-0 On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Konstantin Kiess <konstantin.kiess(a)gmx.de> wrote: Is there any reason that bosh runs on a centos basis but not on rhel? -- Thank you, James Bayer |
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