Regarding the retirement of Piranha

[Lon Hohberger]

On 01/15/2013 10:31 AM, Ranjith Rajaram wrote:
> Beth,
> 
> On 01/15/2013 07:45 PM, Beth Halsema wrote:
>> I was working on a post regarding some problems I had run into with
>> the Piranha `pulse` process and multiple virtual IPs (thus multiple
>> alias interfaces) when I found the "Piranha being retired in Fedora 17"
>> post on the lvs-users and piranha-list mailing lists.
>>
>> Am I correct in assuming that RHEL6.3 users should also be looking at
>> something other than the piranha/ipvsadm offering (load balancer
>> add-on)?  For instance, keepalived/ipvsadm?
>>
>> Or should I submit a bug report to Red Hat?
> Even if Piranha is retired, Red Hat will continue to support piranha in
> RHEL 6(till RHEL 6 EOL)

That's correct.  Piranha will continue to be

> keepalived will be included in the upcoming release of RHEL 6 as
> Technology preview
> 
> RHEL 6 update 4 beta release note
> 
> https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6-Beta/html/6.4_Technical_Notes/clustering_tp.html
> 
> 
> Red Hat will support both keepalived and piranha

Also correct.

-- Lon