[QGIS-Developer] [RHEL][QGIS Server] Installation questions and advices

[Alessandro Pasotti]

Hi,

I don't know podman but looking at the links you provided, it seems
like podman is compatible with docker containers.

You can try that.

Regards.


On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 8:59 PM João Gaspar <joao.f.r.gaspar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear devs,
> I hope you are fine.
>
> Recently the IT department of my company asked me if it's possible to install the latest QGIS Server version in RHEL 8.3.
>
> So I did a little research.
>
> Apparently, RHEL 8.3 is based on Fedora 29[1]. In this last RHEL 8.3, the technical notes said that they adapted dnf manager [2] as default for this and next RHEL releases. I was excited and went to Dani QGIS fedora repo to install in RHEL but the latest builds are based in recent Fedora releases. It's possible to have QGIS servers recent builds of Fedora in an RHEL based on an old Fedora release?
>
> So I think as well in Docker as an alternative inside RHEL but apparently, they will not support officially docker in the future starting in this release 8.3 [3] and they will switch to podman, is possible to change but have a limitation for know don't have a tool equal to docker-compose (there is a workaround[4,5,6]). It's possible to install Docker but won't by supported official for RHEL [7].
>
> In the end, I can always try to convince them to use other types of Linux distro server such as ubuntu server ou fedora server, what do you think?
>
> Based on these thoughts what kind of path can I follow? Please correct me if I said something wrong or don't make sense.
>
>
> If someone wants to read more about this, I'm sharing my little research links about this topic.
>
> Links:
> 1- Matrix compatibility Fedora RHEL
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/fedora-and-red-hat-enterprise-linux/
>
> 2- Using the dnf manager system (Chapter 6.1)
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/considerations_in_adopting_rhel_8/index
>
> 3- Change Docker to Podman (Chapter 20)
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/considerations_in_adopting_rhel_8/index
>
> 4 - Podman and buildah for docker users
> https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/02/21/podman-and-buildah-for-docker-users/
>
> 5 - Transitioning from Docker to Podman
> https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/11/19/transitioning-from-docker-to-podman/
>
> 6 - Moving from docker-compose to Podman pods
> https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/compose-podman-pods
>
> 7- How to install docker in RHEL 8:
> https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-docker-in-rhel-8
>
> Best regards,
> João Gaspar
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