Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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The biggest thing about RHEL that makes it stand out for enterprise users is the support that we get from the vendor. Whereas with the other ones, you're basically left on your own. There's no official repo, there's no satellite for patching. You're very left on your own with the community.

RHEL is better for most use cases that I use professionally for sure. It's the best choice for a professional development environment or a professional server environment.

They have their own pluses and minuses, but for what RHEL eight is and for what it does, I would recommend it above anything else for an enterprise. Two, consistency and stability of the environment, making sure the packages that our developers need are available and not being updated on them in ways that they're not expecting because they expect their applications to be running on specific versions of libraries and specific versions of underlying things in the operating system that Red Hat and Red Hat satellite allow us to provide.

We have been using AAP wherever possible to streamline RHEL deployments, which includes the on-prem bare metal and VM systems, as well as cloud based applications that require traditional compute interfaces. AAP is used for the on-perm infrastructure deployment and configuration. In the cloud it is used for post-deployment configuration. We also automate OpenShift clusters deployment (and rebuild) process, up until the ArgoCD pipelines take over. Also, RHEL is used for “supplementary systems” required for the OpenShift clusters to deployed and function, such DHCP and DNS services.

RedHat support is the driving factor as to why we chose them.

RHEL is easier to use and more configurable.

the only other option was Windows but this was never a real optoin

It mostly exceeds expectations.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more straightforward, more consistent, easier to manage, easier to get help with, less expensive.

They work well together and we use both of them.

None of them provide the consistency and forward looking support that Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is better suited to every environment.

Red Hat is more organized.

It stacks up well.

We have tried other vendors but we don't have a strong support team, so Red Hat can help with this stuff. Also we use RHEL because it gives us security when setting up our services. We try to standardize our DC and work as much as possible with RHEL due to its ease of use, its support and the information that is found is very useful when running into a problem.

Ansible is amazing. I love being able to use Ansible to maintain all of my machine across all of my networks.

We selected RHEL because it is a supported platform from our ISVs, because of the Enterprise-level support, and because of the long history of Open Source involved and community contributions.

We had to request support and this is one of the main features we need due to customer requirements.

standard systems to go on for performance management

RHEL provides the customization and open source that we need to keep our end users on the bleeding edge.