Rhel 5? I hope y’all are using microsegmentation and have a good firewall…JFC
…hope…
Why are you ok with this?
I am not. I worked hard to make our application support RHEL 8 and then RHEL 9. And then the politics takes over and the big wigs start an extended bickering over who should pay for the OS upgrade… which never happens. Sometimes hardware partners don’t support the upgrades, which means OS upgrades also end up requiring new hardware.
I blame Redhat.
Surely your pay is much more than a RHEL license.
If nothing else you could move to Debian or Rocky Linux.
There is something you need to know about collective wisdom; the larger the org is, the lower it gets. Yes the application works on Alma 8 and 9, but the management says ‘no’.
The only way that will work is to somehow quit and rejoin as a much more highly paid consultant and enable them to upgrade EOL software in prod. I am actually considering this.
Yes and no
A healthy organization shouldn’t be having this issue.
Cool, welcome to reality where I don’t think you will ever find a organization that is healthy head to toe.
Honestly I don’t think they exist at all but I know you’ll come back with some nitpick cherrypicked example as “proof”
You aren’t using a EOL system in production right? If you are it better be air gapped. The last thing we need is more zombie machines for the botnets.
“What do you mean? That’s the clinical best practise!!” - Siemens healthcare/Philips or any other medical vendor
(and I’m not talking about air gaps!)
Air gapped but my dad recently upgraded a RHEL 3
Still working on getting the okay to upgrade the XP machines
HPC? Fuck we can’t change shit in HPC. We tried a few times… Some sites appear manage it, but tend to forget a few dozen systems.
I understand how it feels.
