With the announcement that the CentOS Project will discontinue updates and releases of CentOS Linux^® version 8 on Dec. 31, 2021 and of version 7 on June 30, 2024, many organizations began the process of reevaluating their IT environments and started to plan for a migration.

If your organization needs a production-grade operating system to run critical business systems, migrating to a fully supported Red Hat^® Enterprise Linux subscription with a predictable life cycle and extensive partner ecosystem is a straight-forward process that results in a deployment with a similar user experience to that of CentOS Linux.