CentOS EOL guidance

In December 2020, the CentOS community and Red Hat announced the sunset of CentOS. Red Hat also announced CentOS Stream, a new, upstream development platform for the CentOS community. For more information, seeTransforming the development experience within CentOS.

What does this mean for CentOS users?

CentOS 7 and 8 are the final releases of CentOS Linux. The end of life dates for CentOS 7 and 8 are as follows:

• CentOS 8 - December 31, 2021
• CentOS 7 - June 30, 2024

If you have workloads that are currently running on these CentOS versions, you might want to review what options are available to you on Bamboozle Cloud and start migrating your workloads.

Migration options

You can choose to either migrate your workloads that are running on CentOS to a compatible OS distribution, or you might choose an OS that uses a different system.

To migrate your workloads, complete the following steps:

1. Decide on whether you want to move to a compatible OS or not.

   • For a list of compatible operating systems, see CentOS compatible operating systems below.
   • For a list of other operating systems that you might consider, see Other operating systems below.

2. To move from CentOS to the new OSes, you have the following options:

   • Create a new VM with the new OS and redeploy your workloads. Bamboozle recommends using this option.

   • Migrate your workloads to a new OS using conversion tools. Choose one of the following:

     • Use the migration tool that is available from the OS distribution that you want to migrate to. While a few community tools might be available for converting your workloads from CentOS to another distribution, Bamboozle does not provide or support any of these conversion tools.
     • Use the migrate2rocky tool available from Rocky Linux. For instructions on how to use this tool and the supported operating systems, see the Rocky Linux documentation.

CentOS compatible operating systems

The following table summarizes the list of CentOS compatible operating systems that you can migrate to on Bamboozle Cloud, Cloud Servers and Dedicated Servers.

Other operating systems

If you do not require a CentOS compatible operating system, the following options are available.