On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 13:02:50 -0400, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hey! Are you a user of Fedora in a server context? I'd love to hear from you (either in public or private, on the record or off). How do you use Fedora? Do you use it in production? At scale? (If so, know you're not alone.)
I use it for a home server. It does mail using qmail (from source build). ezmlm (from source build) is used for a couple of low volume mailing lists. It publishes DNS info as well as providing a caching resolver for guests. (All of my machines run their own caching resolvers.) It has a local copy of i386 and x86_64 rawhide that I use to keep machines updated at home. It has some simple database backed web pages using postgres and perl CGI scripts.
Currently I'm using rawhide, but in the past I tended to yum upgrade to branched shortly after branching. I haven't done a reinstall in a long time.
I use it almost entirely via ssh, even when I'm at home. (It's in the basement.)
I also use it as an end point to get at my work desktop (also running rawhide) via wireguard. The work machine has a private IP address and the normal firewall software people use to get at their machines sucks. Outbound traffic is NAT'd so the work machine can initiate the tunnel and keep it open, so I can connect the other way when needed. I build wireguard from source whenever I switch running kernels. It's not upstream yet, so it isn't eligible for normal Fedora yet, but I think it is a really nice piece of software.
Do you find Fedora Server as defined at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server/Product_Requirements_Document useful to you? Do you fit into the target audiences and use cases? Or, are you using Fedora Server in a different way? Or, Fedora _as_ a server but not the Server edition?
I'm closest to the Macguyer case, but I'm just a hobbyiest admin who runs old hardware to save on capital outlays (but probably keeps my power bills higher than they should be).