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[Samuel Winchenbach <swinchen@xxxxxxxxx>]

I
 agree with Logan that it is personal preference.

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.

I am sure for every complaint I have about Ubuntu someone has an equal
complaint about CentOS.

- Sam


On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Logan McNaughton <logan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Honestly a lot of it has to do with personal preference, or what your
> organization is comfortable with.
>
> 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.
>
> As far as "ease to deploy", Ubuntu's recommend strategy is using
> MAAS/Juju. Red hat recently released RDO (openstack.red hat.com), 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 (fuel.mirantis.com).
>
> Currently Fuel only supports CentOS/RHEL but they say Ubuntu support is
> coming.
> On Jul 12, 2013 11:42 AM, "Haitao Jiang" <jianghaitao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I would like to get some feedback on which OS to choose for OpenStack
>> Host OS, CentOS 6.4 or Ubuntu 12.04. Just from technical point of
>> view, e.g.
>>
>> - Ease of deploy
>>
>> - Support of new features
>>
>> - Performance benchmarks
>>
>> - Community support
>>
>> - Number of bugs
>>
>> etc.
>>
>> My impression so far is that Ubuntu is more up to date with the
>> support of OpenStack, it has newer kernel and packages. For examples,
>> like Python version. Ubuntu also seems has more community support etc.
>> But at the same time, Redhat is rank as one of contributors to the
>> OpenStack code base.
>>
>> Any input or comment will be welcomed and appreciated
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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