This is interesting as not too long ago Red Hat made a major effort to integrate Puppet inside of their Satellite product.

+1 for primary application platform on Ubuntu.

If you mean what I think you mean, I use Centos for General server stuff, basically a server that can handle anything or can be more than 1 thing, however for Ubuntu and cause of the snaps, I use Ubuntu for specific roles like :

File server
Or
RockChat server

For specific purpose roles.

I really wish that I could easily be on Linux 100% instead of Mac OSX, but I'll never learn Mac OSX well if I don't stick to it 😞 I do have VirtualBox 5 running the latest Linux Mint 17.2 on it and that runs pretty well. But type 2 VMs are just never snappy like a native desktop is 😞

@scottalanmiller said:

You can deploy Cockpit to CentOS too. Red Hat just moved it to "default install" in Fedora before it went to CentOS.

Good to know.
Will have a hunt on Monday have a play oh and of course "Do some Work"

Highlights:

Fedora Server

Database Server Role. The Fedora Server edition focuses on easy of different server roles. Fedora 21 debuted with an Domain Controller Role featuring FreeIPA. For this release, we’ve added a Database Server role, built around PostgreSQL. Default to XFS filesystem. The default file system type for Fedora Server installs will be XFS running atop LVM for all partitions except /boot. The /boot partition will remain a non-LVM, ext4 partition due to technological limitations of the bootloader. Cockpit will be compatible between OS releases. Cockpit is a server manager that makes it easy to administer your GNU/Linux servers via a web browser.
- Easy to use. Cockpit is perfect for new sysadmins, allowing them to easily perform simple tasks such as storage administration, inspecting journals and starting and stopping services.
- No interference. Jumping between the terminal and the web tool is no problem. A service started via Cockpit can be stopped via the terminal. Likewise, if an error occurs in the terminal, it can be seen in the Cockpit journal interface. Multi-server. You can monitor and administer several servers at the same time.

@ryanov said:

Part of this is not correct. RHEL releases as often as not do not directly correspond to a specific Fedora release. I stumbled upon this myself when I tried to use Fedora packages in RHEL for some things (using packages for the same release of Fedora that the RHEL release was based on). Neither RHEL6 nor 7 was based on a single Fedora release:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078

True, they are starting to base it less closely now that Fedora has some additional testing that RHEL doesn't want to role in. SystemD is part of what caused this to change in RHEL 6. It's basically the same, still. Even if they based off of Fedora initially, it eventually skews as Fedora stops getting updates many, many years before RHEL does.

@bsouder said:

Pluralsight:
($50 monthly subscription - can turn off at any time - unlimited training for that month.)
http://www.pluralsight.com/search/?searchTerm=Linux

Linux Foundation:
(Online Classrooms)
http://training.linuxfoundation.org/linux-courses

Learnable:
Not sure how good this one is. I was going to check out some of their topics.
https://learnable.com/courses/a-beginner-s-guide-to-production-linux-49#overview

bsouder thank you for providing links on the educational part. I really need all I can get. I really do appreciate that!

I will be updating my Fedora 20 development server as soon as Fedora 21 is available.

So true. Elastix is now only on two gen old CentOS. Argh.

There we go, all set. Hopefully that will help some people get started with Chef since it is basically really simple but lacking a few specific things that you "just have to know" because Opscode does not document them (a gap in the Chef 12 documents) it is very hard for no reason.

CEPH certainly promises to be pretty important. Is anyone in the SMB market using it yet?

I think overall the RH buyout of CentOS is positive.