Looks like Red Hat is increasing the free developer subscription to 240 nodes

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38 points·fariszr··9 comments

Hi all. This seems like an untimely bug to me. We are investigating. Look for clarification this week (it's the weekend now and people are away).

Would anyone trust RedHat enough to fall for that and wait for RedHat to start squeezing them by gradually lowering that number over the years?

Quick update:

Mike, who first noted this on Mastodon, just updated his tweet (toot?) to say that his contacts at Red hat confirmed that this is a bug, the dev Subscription is still limited to 16 servers.

This is Red Hat's Docker moment.

Except Docker is still doing pretty well, all things considered. The only real competition on the dev side was Podman, and it was only half-baked (as a full desktop replacement) when Docker had it's massive ecosystem changes.

There are a lot of good Linux distros out there. Even ones with commercial support.

The software world can have multiple solutions to the same problem, right?

I’ve been using Rancher Desktop for the last few months (with the moby runtime) and it has been working well. They just had another big release that fixed a few more incompatibility issues too. I wouldn’t call it half-baked.

What does entitlements mean? Servers?

The Red Hat Developer Subscription for Individuals gives you 16 entitlements, each of which can be used on one physical or virtual server.

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