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, see Transforming the development experience within CentOS.
CentOS 7 and 8 are the final releases of CentOS Linux. The end of life dates for CentOS 7 and 8 are as follows:
If you have workloads that are currently running on these CentOS versions, you might want to review what options are available to you on Google Cloud and start migrating your workloads.
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:
Decide on whether you want to move to a compatible OS or not.
To move from CentOS to the new OSes, you have the following options:
Migrate your workloads to a new OS using conversion tools. Choose one of the following:
migrate2rocky tool available from Rocky Linux. For instructions on how to use this tool and the supported operating systems, see the Rocky Linux documentation.The following table summarizes the list of CentOS compatible operating systems that you can migrate to on Google Cloud.
| Distribution | Image available on Google Cloud | Image license cost | Support models |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Linux | Yes | None | |
| Alma Linux | Yes | None | |
| CentOS Stream | Yes | None | Community support |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)* | Yes | Premium image pricing | Commercial support (provided by Google Cloud) |
*RHEL on demand images are available on Google Cloud. We also support RHEL Cloud Access (BYOS) subscription based gold images. For more information about RHEL's Cloud Access program, see Red Hat Cloud Access.
Red Hat in partnership with Google is committed to helping you migrate from CentOS to RHEL. To help with this migration, we are providing promotional offers to qualified customers subject to approval from Red Hat. If you are interested in learning more about the RHEL promotional offers, contact your Google Cloud account representative.
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