# Installer EOL announcement

- Installer's support for a broad list of Linux distribution's has been challenging to maintain.
- The installer requires users to know Ansible.

Two main motivators: 1) User Feedback and 2) Too costly to maintain relative to a container based option.

## User Feedback

* If a user doesn't already use Ansible, the installation of Pulp is seen as to large a barrier to entry.
* When the intaller has any problem/error because it's so complex, even long-time Ansible users aren't in a position to figure it out.

## Too costly to maintain relative to a container based option

* The installer needs a lot of work for each OS version it supports. Containers need almost none.
* The CI test matrix for supporting all of OS versions is huge and takes a lot of human time just to keep it going. It breaks very often.
* Users need container based installs to run Pulp where they want, so having a container-based option is already a sunk cost
* Having one installation asset, i.e. used by all users will give better results for everyone