Puppet agent and non-LTS Ubuntu releases policy change
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Scott Garman
Jan 2, 2018, 5:43:25 PM1/2/18
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Hi all,
Some of you have probably noticed that our latest official puppet-agent
release for Ubuntu was for version 16.10 "Yakkety", which is currently
end of life and no longer supported. Due to the short lifecycle of
non-LTS Ubuntu releases (9 months), and the backlog that the Puppet
Platform OS team is working on, we've made the decision to no longer
release official puppet-agent builds for non-LTS Ubuntu releases.
I will note however that so far it has been possible to use the LTS
16.04 "Xenial" puppet-agent package on Ubuntu 17.04 and 17.10, they're
just not officially supported. This is a workaround that may be useful
to be aware of until the next LTS release of Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" comes
out in April.
This policy change doesn't impact other platforms that are currently
supported with a lifecycle of more than 12 months. For example, Fedora
releases have a 13-month lifecycle, and we intend to keep releasing
packages for them. Likewise for Debian releases, CentOS/RHEL, etc.
The Platform OS team at Puppet has an ever-growing list of platforms to
support on an ongoing basis. We believe that focusing our efforts on
existing platforms with at least a year-long lifecycle will result in
the greatest return on effort we can offer to the community.
Scott Garman
Some of you have probably noticed that our latest official puppet-agent
release for Ubuntu was for version 16.10 "Yakkety", which is currently
end of life and no longer supported. Due to the short lifecycle of
non-LTS Ubuntu releases (9 months), and the backlog that the Puppet
Platform OS team is working on, we've made the decision to no longer
release official puppet-agent builds for non-LTS Ubuntu releases.
I will note however that so far it has been possible to use the LTS
16.04 "Xenial" puppet-agent package on Ubuntu 17.04 and 17.10, they're
just not officially supported. This is a workaround that may be useful
to be aware of until the next LTS release of Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" comes
out in April.
This policy change doesn't impact other platforms that are currently
supported with a lifecycle of more than 12 months. For example, Fedora
releases have a 13-month lifecycle, and we intend to keep releasing
packages for them. Likewise for Debian releases, CentOS/RHEL, etc.
The Platform OS team at Puppet has an ever-growing list of platforms to
support on an ongoing basis. We believe that focusing our efforts on
existing platforms with at least a year-long lifecycle will result in
the greatest return on effort we can offer to the community.
Scott Garman
Aécio
Jan 3, 2018, 10:23:41 AM1/3/18
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Hello, Scott!
It is a prudent decision.
Aécio Pires
Scott Garman
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