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***Not an official approved statement. Work in progress***
IBM has no roadmap that supports new products on Oracle Linux without requiring SVP exception. IBM Cloud Private has not been validated on Oracle Linux and deployment is not supported. However, IBM is willing to receive cases on IBM Cloud Private and will address them in a "best effort" policy. If an issue can be recreated in a supported operating system, fixes can be provided. However, Oracle Linux specific or issues that cannot be recreated may be closed with no resolution provided. Issues would have to be through Oracle technical support.
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While ICP is not technically certified to run on Oracle Linux, (i.e. IBM has no technical support for the OS component) it has been used before and ICP does run on it. In general, the only time OS-level issues arise is when you are updating the OS or other supporting software on that VM. Various software utilities may need updating, or there may be known bugs when updating the base operating system. You can work around this by scheduling OS updates less frequently, and planning for them ahead of time by researching known bugs, software dependencies, and version conflicts.
To receive an SVP exception requires ICP to be being rapidly adopting at your company across a number of production-ready use cases, driving ICP licensing revenue sufficient to at least partially fund the Oracle certification.
It is possible for IBM to provide a "managed service" whereby IBM would build and manage an ICP-on-Oracle implementation for you, but it would require IBM managing servers inside your data center. There are also custom managed-cloud or hosted solutions, but they would require that we host ICP in our data centers.
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14 November 2018
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