Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management With In-Place Upgrades
Red Hat News, Thursday, June 29,2023
There are many benefits to implementing a Standard Operating Environment (SOE), such as simplified logistics and economies of scale.
The task of maintaining that environment, however, can be daunting under the best of circumstances. Often, the needs of the customer base you're entrusted with supporting can undermine the goals of providing that support. To cite just one example, maybe your development team needs access to an archival build for testing while the information assurance team requires all systems to be at a particular software revision by a specific date. Even if all the stakeholders could agree on a specific iteration, there are issues of personnel, compute resources, maintenance overhead, legacy support costs and more that need to be addressed when increments of that iteration occur.