CentOS 8 End of Life – Are you Ready? My thoughts & Suggestions
CentOS 8 will reach its end of life very soon – after December 31st, there will be no more updates for the popular distribution. If you’re using CentOS 8 in your data center, it’s time to make a decision. In this video, I’ll go over my thoughts about the subject, as well as some possible options for how to proceed.
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Man suggesting Oracle Linux as a replacement for CentOS is — a bit — "brave"!
When you love the "fun" of never knowing when Oracle is suing you when they want a piece of the pie … Just ask Google how that goes with Oracle. 🤕🥵
Me who used debian for years and years: "Oh no, anyway"
Yet you didn't speak about your personal choice ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 🙃🤔
how about miracle Linux distribution
I like Centos Stream 9 because its upstream for RHEL 9. I don't mind living on the edge and I enjoy being able to use RHEL 9 before its out.
if you operate for money then just stick to Redhat.
Almalinux is what I opted for, for both personal and production environments. CloudlLinux is it's parent company and they have tons of developers that work in a redhat environment. Also the last time I tested, Rocky didn't support UEFI, however that was months ago. Things may have changed by now.
It was kind of a race. I had to do a "dirty upgrade" or an in place upgrade to CentOS 8 on my servers running CentOS 6 or 7 in order to migrate to Alma. Normally I wouldn't do something like this but the clock was ticking. Obviously a fresh install would be the wise decision. The Alma migration script is amazing. It did the job. Even on hypervisors. Absolutely zero problems.
Thanks for the video!
I am badly stuked with CentOS 7 with CWP Control-panel with multiple websites….
I tried oracle linux and it's really good
Thanks Jay! It helped us to upgrade our core corp servers. Our descision was to migrate to Rocky Linux.
Like the Edifier Speakers in the desk in the background
We moved to Rocky Linux by Gregory Kurtzer, original founder of CentOS project (the other was Rocky McGaugh, so the name of the new distribition). Just made backup images of our VMs, execute the convert script and voilà! We tested Alma Linux, process was the same and it was just fine too. At the end, we did go for the original founder and the community.
Oracle Linux: You're in this situation because of an asshole corporation. So choose us, a different asshole corporation!
If you need that distribution, Oracle Linux is a good option.
Yeah, as a user of Centos for over 15 years, I was not happy. I ended up ditching it for Debian/Ubuntu. I hope Rocky and Alma Linux and all others have great success, but RH screwed the pooch, as far as I am concerned. I'm done.
Actually a good video, but what I don't understand is why not at least openSUSE Leap is presented as another option? Especially since Leap 15.3 is binary compatible with SUSE Enterprise Linux and uses the same package format (RPM) and thus a migration to the business version would be possible without any problems?
Cent OS stream aka Windows 10 concept
I would move to Rocky linux given the involvement Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project originally
IBM owning redHat was always going to lead to this, what amazes me is that small startup companies would use CentOS when they are growing, then when they become established move to having support contracts with RHEL when their tech becomes ission critical, IBM dont get it do they…….great video again, thank you