Best of 2024: RIP CentOS. Hello AlmaLinux Rocky Linux, CentOS Stream or RHEL
DevOps.com, Tuesday, December 24th, 2024
CentOS 7's official end of life is June 30th, 2024. What should a DevOps team do? Here are your choices.
Back in December 2020, Red Hat, CentOS's Linux parent company, announced it was 'shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release.' CentOS users were upset, and many never stopped using the last supported version of 'classic' CentOS, CentOS 7.