Once the app was ready, we will deploy it on RHEL 8 cluster. CentOS was our “no-nonsense test platform” for MySQL, PHP, Nginx, Java, and many other apps. At work, we mainly used CentOS for testing as we target RHEL, but it saves lots of money. The main advantage of CentOS is to provide 100% binary compatibility with RHEL. I think it is a wrong move on the Red Hat part. No impact on CentOS 7ĬentoS 7 will continue to produce through the remainder of the RHEL 7 life cycle.
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That said, the code is open source and they wouldn’t try to stop anyone from choosing to use it or build their own packages from the code. Red Hat says they we will not be putting hardware, resources, or asking for volunteers to work towards that effort, nor will we allow the CentOS brand to be used for such a project, as they feel that it dilutes what we are trying to do with the refocus on CentOS Stream. Can the CentOS community continue to develop/rebuild CentOS linux? Also, note that CentOS Stream will have different ABI/API at times, so you can no longer test or build EPEL packages locally.
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There is no option if you use CentOS for CI because you couldn’t use RHEL developer licenses. Generally speaking, we expect CentOS Stream to have fewer bugs and more runtime features than RHEL until those packages make it into the RHEL release. CentOS Stream will be getting fixes and features ahead of RHEL. Does this mean that CentOS Stream is the RHEL BETA test platform now? In other words, CentOS Streams users will test RHEL ahead of everyone and report bugs, but they won’t get security updates till resolved in RHEL. There is therefore a vested interest for them to get these updates in so as not to impact their other builds and there should be no issues getting security updates.
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If they do not roll in the updates, the other software they build could be impacted and therefore need to be redone. While there will not be any SLA for timing, Red Hat Engineers will be building and testing other packages against these releases. Obviously, embargoed security releases can not be publicly released until after the embargo is lifted. Security issues will be updated in CentOS Stream after they are solved in the current RHEL release. How will CVEs be handled in CentOS Stream? If you are using CentOS Linux 8 in a production environment, and are concerned that CentOS Stream will not meet your needs, we encourage you to contact Red Hat about options. When CentOS Linux 8 (the rebuild of RHEL8) ends, your best option will be to migrate to CentOS Stream 8, which is a small delta from CentOS Linux 8, and has regular updates like traditional CentOS Linux releases. CentOS Stream continues after that date, serving as the upstream (development) branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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CentOS Linux 8, as a rebuild of RHEL 8, will end at the end of 2021.
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The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next year we’ll be 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. So we have: Fedora Linux ➡️ CentOS Stream ➡️ RHEL CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream and CentOS Linux 8 will end at 2021 It acts as a gateway between Fedora and RHEL: Upstream ➡️ Downstream ➡️ RHEL In other words, CentOS Stream is a rolling-release distro for RHEL. What is a CentOS stream?ĬentOS stream seats between Fedora and RHEL. It is a great way to save money on an expensive RHEL contract when you no longer need support or training contracts.
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CentOS offered enterprise-grade software free of cost with self-support and community support are driven by email mailing lists or online forums. It was an instant hit among Linux lovers, web hosting companies, developers, and the HPC community. We saw the first CentOS release in May 2004 called CentOS version 2 and was forked from RHEL 2.1AS (advance server).