enterprise license

[Felipe Aleixo]

Hello everyone,

I work for a company that has several Proxmox servers installed.

However, the company does not want to purchase the enterprise license, and another technician wants to perform Proxmox updates using the no-subscription repository instead.

I recommended buying the official license, but there is always someone who wants to go against that recommendation.

My main question is: is updating Proxmox through the no-subscription repository considered safe for production environments? Could this approach cause problems or instability in the future?

I would appreciate hearing from people with real experience using this method in production environments.

 

[leesteken]

It's not a license (which is a legally very different thing) but a (support) subscription. The no-subscription repository is a little less time-tested and gets features and bugfixes sooner and more often. If there is a problem then it's usually fixed quickly compared to being on the enterprise repository. It's what most people run at home, which they call "production" as it runs their "critical" infrastructure like home automation and network routing. I use no-subscription mostly but did get a subscription to support Proxmox.

 

[UdoB]

is updating Proxmox through the no-subscription repository considered safe for production environments?

As so often: it depends.

If I run a company and I my services infrastructure is used in my office to make money and I want that to be possible with ~99.9 percent reliability (that's one workday per year) then I use the better tested subscription repository.

For my homelab that is not the case...