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Linux & Migrations · Stunnerz Global · 2022 – 2024

RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 upgrade

Zero-downtime migration

Fleet upgrade orchestrated with Chef and Ansible.

Problem

Servers had to move to RHEL 8 to stay within vendor support without service interruption.

Solution

Collaborated on the upgrade from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8, orchestrated through Chef and Ansible.

Architecture

  1. RHEL 7 hosts
  2. Chef / Ansible
  3. Upgrade
  4. Validation
  5. RHEL 8

Tools

RHELChefAnsible

Outcome

Zero-downtime migrations, full vendor support compliance, and improved stability and security.