Upgrading CentOS on the Facebook fleet

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Covers how Facebook manages CentOS across its production fleet, including tooling and processes developed for large-scale administration. Describes challenges encountered when upgrading the fleet to a new major CentOS release and explains plans for adopting CentOS Stream and how collaboration with the CentOS community helps address those issues.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:41Infrastructure
3. 6:10OS updates Major updates
4. 7:58Rolling OS updates
5. 25:06RHEL 8 Beta
6. 33:31RHEL 8 Release
7. 36:32CentOS 8 at Facebook
8. 40:32CentOS 8 migration

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