EventStore on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

Hi,

Does anyone know of any issues with running EventStore on Ubuntu 16.04
LTS? We have been running on Ubuntu 14.04 so far, but for various
reasons now need to go to 16. Any experience with this?

regards, Rickard

I see no reason in principle this shouldn’t work. We’ll test and produce packages for 16.04 I think, in accordance with our policy of supporting the last two LTS revisions of Ubuntu where possible.

James

Yeah its mostly just the systemd stuff on the package. Event Store
itself runs with no problem but you probably prefer packages.

Thanks Greg and James!

I just tried using the 14.04 version, and indeed, it crapped out on systemd.

When you have a timeframe for when 16.04 package could be available,
can you please let us know? We need this "ASAP" of course, but any
indication of timeframe would be helpful to communicate internally for
me.

thanks, Rickard

There is testing underway on 16.04. We don’t have an exact release date for this as yet but will keep you posted.
There are a couple of issues we are investigating.

You can always install the package and replace the upstart script with a systemd unit. There isn’t much to the actual changes, however we aren’t done verifying stability with new libraries etc yet.

James

Hey Rickard,
How are you doing?

We have a pre-release version of 3.9.2 for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) on the prerelease package cloud repository. (https://packagecloud.io/EventStore/EventStore-OSS-PreRelease). The package is still undergoing some testing and will be released shortly if we don’t encounter any issues.

Hey Pieter!

Great news! This is the last thing holding us back from switching to
HTTP/2 for our platform (which requires 16.04 in practice), so it will
be great to check this out. Thanks a lot!!

regards, Rickard

Just following up regarding your experiences with the Ubuntu 16.04 package Rickard. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you have any issues.

Hey Pieter!

We are doing a major release next week, so I'd like to do that first
and get performance numbers from that, and then look into 16.04 and
HTTP/2 for the frontend. I'll let you guys know when I have something
to report, good or bad.

regards, Rickard