Red Hat Enterprise Linux
February 26, 2024
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
We primarily started using it to help with the ECS deployment, the new VMs, and patching. So we have playbooks that focus on keeping our systems up to date with patches and security patches and initially and now we use it to run playbooks to help configure new VM requests in environments. And we have a very secure environment, which we don't use EEC Sing. It's a highly sensitive government environment that has to be isolated so nothing can go in, and nothing can go out except for very specific parameters. And so what we did is we have an Ansible presence in there already. So instead of sitting at an alone ECS, a whole new system in there to deploy VMs, we have Ansible deploying. So we have Ansible playbooks that connect to the ISOs and connect to the Packer images and build these VMs and they build 'em to a specific secure requirement that this environment and they automatically put them in the right OU in the right folder within the BSPHERE client. And so it is been really helpful in that environment because we used to have to copy CDs there and build VMs from scratch all the time. And the Linux VM from scratch in a very secure environment takes a long time. It's very annoying. So save a lot of time.
- For us, it's going to be the deployment and the patching. It does a good job because you can put your no reboot tags and things like that because working with production systems and so we don't want them just rebooting suddenly because they were patched in the Linux world. So the non-reboot tags and the operating system deployment is the biggest thing we find that saves time and that's the biggest thing that we like. The tools. The tools that save time.
- I've heard issues about the manifest sinking can be a pain sometimes and when you're going from an older to a newer version, sometimes the manifests can get messed up and you have to start all over again. That can be a bang. But mostly for me, I don't like typing a lot. So trying to remember on the playbooks it's plain English of what you want to do, but you still have to remember where every little bracket and every little thing goes and that's kind of annoying. So the coating aspect of it when you don't like coating is kind of a thing, but that's changing I think.
- It's only been positive and like I said before, it's been positive because it removed tedious tasks and I think that's probably what it's designed to help do from what I can tell is just to get rid of the mundane tasks of a systems administrator. The things that you just don't want to waste time doing so you can actually use your brain for something useful.
Do you think Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)'s feature set?
Yes
Did Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) again?
Yes