This is the eighth and last section of our course.
We'll discuss some final thoughts on Lennox in the cloud, a command cheat sheet,
and a few best practices you can follow. Finally,
we'll explore how you can use this courses as a stepping stone into other
courses. In this video,
you'll learn about some other popular Linux distributions in the cloud.
I chose Amazon Lennox for our course,
but there are a few other popular Linux distributions you can use from the
different cloud providers. Each other.
OS has its merit and some of the choices will come down to preference,
distribution, experience, and cost depending on the cloud provider.
The most popular distributions are atu,
red Hat and Debian atu.
Lennox is a free and open source distro that is supported by a company called
Canonical. A Buntu is Debbie in base, and a new release is produced every year.
There is a long-term supported version that is released every two years in
April.
A buntu offers a paid support model and would be a good fit if you like,
a more frequent lease cycle while only having five years of support.
Red Hat is the first successful commercial enterprise Lennox.
While the OS is built on open source software,
you must pay Red Hat for a license and support.
You get updates and 10 years of support with that paid license.
Red Hat is an RPM based distro just like Amazon, Lennox,
and is updated in a conservative fashion as it concentrates more in stability
rather than newer versions of software.
This is a good fit if your company needs to have enterprise support and requires
slower release cycles. Devin is another free and open source distro.
It is the base for many other Distros like a Buntu.
Debbie does not ship proprietary software in the distro as it is against their
philosophy. Debbie leans towards stability rather than new versions of software,
just like Red Hat.
But Debbie does offer a stable and a testing version you can use dependent on
your risk threshold.
Devin releases a stable version on a when it's ready model,
but that's usually around two years.
The stable version is supported for at least five years.
Debbie does offer a paid support for extended long-term support,
which can last up to 10 years. Okay,
so let's talk about what we did. In this video,
you learn about other Lennox Distros,
like a Buntu Red Hat and Debian that you can use in the cloud.
You explored what makes them different in practical use cases on choosing one.
In the next video,
I will share some best practices when operating Lennox in the cloud.