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by freedomben
1095 days ago
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> If you’re running something in production you’re almost certainly making money off of it That is an extremely incorrect premise. There are tons of things in production that people don't make money on. Tons of new products don't make money for many years. And even if it is profitable, profit margins are often thin and RHEL is not cheap. I have about 10 services in public-facing production right now (on Alma), and only one is profitable, and that runs in a container anyway (the host is not RHEL, just my container). I also have about a dozen or so personal/private services that I use for myself and my family. Those don't make any money either, I spend about $80 per month to run them. If I had to pay for a RHEL license for each of those, I'd just have to shut them down. Which seems more reasonable to you: move my life to a different base that does support my niche, or shut everything down? |
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Are you sure that is really a supported RHEL configuration?
As far as I know, to get support unless you have a pretty special (and more expansive and expensive) support contract you're supposed to run a RHEL host and a RHEL base layer for the container images.
Your configuration looks like running standard RHEL over something not-RHEL, but without anything besides binary compatibility; so why not run RHEL UBI?
RHEL UBI has a much more lax license that you can almost pretty much use and basically redistribute freely, and you can get support for the RHEL components on it.