So I just finished migrating my 4.3 engine to 4.4 on a brand new RHvEL8 install; next step
is to upgrade the hosts. When I first started with oVirt I used my own CentOS installs,
but quickly decided that it made no sense for my use case. Now I am looking at upgrading
from 4.3 to 4.4 and asking myself the same question. Up to now oVirt node has been using
the same exact OS I would have used +/- a few extra packages, but with the traditional
CentOS going away it really depends on what the new oVirt nodes are going to be based on.
I have a feeling the answer to that question is CentOS Stream, which I don't feel
comfortable with for this task. While I am sure the developers will test the combination
before releasing a new node, they are still only testing whatever specific hardware
combination they have. There could be numerous weird bugs that will only show up in
certain situations. If Stream was as stable as an EL release, there wouldn't be EL
releases. I also appreciate the fa
ct that oVirt is itself a work in progress, but the stable branch is considerably more
like an EL release than a stream. Anyway, back to the point. Just want to confirm the
future for node is stream before I go wasting time building my own EL8 hosts.