Azure Linux In, CentOS Out: LinkedIn Switches its Server Operating System
Azure Linux In, CentOS Out: LinkedIn Switches its Server Operating System
As part of a massive migration campaign, LinkedIn has successfully moved their operations to Microsoft's Azure Linux as of April 2024, ditching CentOS 7 in the process and taking advantage of a more modern compute platform.
As many of you might already know, back on June 30, 2024, CentOS 7 reached the end-of-life status, resulting in no new future updates for it, including fixes for critical security vulnerabilities.
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The developers have gone with the high-performing XFS filesystem, which was made to work with Azure Linux to fit LinkedIn's use case. In their testing, they found that XFS was performing well for most of their applications, except Hadoop, which is used for their analytics workloads.
When they compared the issues that cropped up, XFS came out as a more stable and reliable choice than the other candidate, Ext4.
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Additionally, LinkedIn's MaaS (Metal-as-a-Service) team has developed a new Azure Linux Image Customizer tool for automating image generation, that takes an existing generic Azure Linux image, and modifies it to use with a given scenario. In this case, a tailored image for LinkedIn.
LinkedIn Engineering Blog: Navigating the transition: adopting Azure Linux as LinkedIn’s operating system
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They should've moved to Windows
Why would they? They know how it's made!
That's the point.
This agent of chaos here lolol
They remember what happened when they migrated Hotmail to Microsoft Exchange.
I have no love for linkedin, I'm pretty much forced to be on it though