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21.1 Legacy Series / Is OPNsense stable or not? Is it really production safe or not?
« on: March 11, 2021, 12:48:04 pm »
Years ago I switched from m0nowall to OPNsense and I love it.
It's, Dutch / European, I love it and I never want to change to something else anymore.
But through the years of using OPNsense there is something that makes me wonder:
Is it stable or not? Is it really production safe or not?
So much updates and a couple of times in the past I ended up with a weird working firewall/router or not connecting any more to the internet. This all with vanilla installs, nothing added.
Every time there is an update I now completely expect the worse and sometimes just delay updates/upgrades just to be safe.
Now again with the production release of 21.1.3 I see posts here on the forum and on the net of stuff breaking due to the updates/upgrades.
Even the latest release notes say: "We encourage everyone to install this version in a test environment before using it in production. As usual, please have a look at the plugin changes[1] and report bugs on GitHub."
Wait what? In a test environment? And we need to report bugs on GitHub?
What does "production" even mean? Not stable? Unstable?
Is it an rolling testing distribution like Fedora and Tumbleweed is?
I have never seen Deciso appliances in the wild, but don't companies want a stable operating system with low maintenance and safe update cycles with stuff that won't break?
Sorry if this comes on a bit to harsh for the devs, but this is something I really don't like of the distribution for a long time now
It's, Dutch / European, I love it and I never want to change to something else anymore.
But through the years of using OPNsense there is something that makes me wonder:
Is it stable or not? Is it really production safe or not?
So much updates and a couple of times in the past I ended up with a weird working firewall/router or not connecting any more to the internet. This all with vanilla installs, nothing added.
Every time there is an update I now completely expect the worse and sometimes just delay updates/upgrades just to be safe.
Now again with the production release of 21.1.3 I see posts here on the forum and on the net of stuff breaking due to the updates/upgrades.
Even the latest release notes say: "We encourage everyone to install this version in a test environment before using it in production. As usual, please have a look at the plugin changes[1] and report bugs on GitHub."
Wait what? In a test environment? And we need to report bugs on GitHub?
What does "production" even mean? Not stable? Unstable?
Is it an rolling testing distribution like Fedora and Tumbleweed is?
I have never seen Deciso appliances in the wild, but don't companies want a stable operating system with low maintenance and safe update cycles with stuff that won't break?
Sorry if this comes on a bit to harsh for the devs, but this is something I really don't like of the distribution for a long time now