ClickCease Endless Lifecycle Support for CentOS 7 | TuxCare

CentOS 7 continues to live today supporting millions of workloads. Sure, you won’t get a new version of CentOS with new features, but CentOS 7 works fine as-is. But wait, no more security updates since June 2024? Well, that could be a problem… and that’s where TuxCare will come to the rescue.

We’ve been offering Endless Lifecycle Support (ELS) for CentOS since November 2020 and made the end of life of CentOS 7 a non-event when it came around.

ELS allows you to continue using CentOS 7 safely for as long as you need while getting all the necessary assistance from our seasoned enterprise architects to ensure the smoothest transition to a new Linux distribution at your convenience.

So don’t sweat it.

Subscribe either monthly or yearly to our CentOS 7 Support coverage.

Continue Using CentOS 7 Safely
with TuxCare


  • Instant Access to Fixes for Currently Unpatched CVEs


  • Endless Security Patching Far Beyond the EOL Date


  • Direct Access to Level 3 Technical Support Experts


  • Easy Implementation with a 2-Step Installation Process

CentOS 7 ELS provides you with the missing patches for 60+ high and
critical-risk vulnerabilities that CentOS has never patched

Choose Your ELS Coverage

Only pay for the exact amount of coverage you need (and nothing you don’t)
with our two ELS pricing options.

CentOS 7 ELS Standard

  • Security patches for newly-discovered High and
    Critical CVEs for post CentOS 7 EOL
  • Security patches for 60+ High and Critical CVEs that
    CentOS has never patched

CentOS 7 ELS Complete

Get everything included in ELS Standard, plus:

  • 14-day SLA* security patches for all High
    and Critical CVEs
  • CentOS 7 Technical Support and
    Migration Guidance
  • Direct access to Level 3 technical support experts
  • Support for a comprehensive set of packages
  • Migration advice and recommendations
  • Guidance on the best CentOS alternatives
  • Configuration assistance
  • Feature and functionality insights
  • ️Design and architecture review
  • Upgrades, patch deployment and CVE risk evaluation
  • Integration and performance support + scalability guidance
  • Container-based deployment guidance
  • Backup and disaster recovery assistance
  • Logging and debugging

* Starting from the date the vulnerability is publicly disclosed

Precision-engineered patch development

Our patches are designed with surgical precision and rigorously tested to provide businesses with the assurance that their legacy systems remain secure, stable, and compliant in the face of evolving cyber threats.

Support for a Comprehensive List of Packages

When you sign up for TuxCare’s Extended Lifecycle Support, you’ll get patches for an extensive package list, providing maximum security for your operating system

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Ensure a secure and well-executed transition
for your CentOS 7 systems

Switching to TuxCare for CentOS 7
Support Is Simple

Just run a single script and TuxCare will continuously provide the latest patches into your CentOS 7 servers – giving you more time to decide what to do after CentOS 7. You can even create a local mirror to store all our CentOS 7 support updates using rsync.

Your maintenance processes won’t be affected — you’ll continue to use your tool of choice for patch deployment (yum, dnf, etc).

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Why TuxCare?

The TuxCare team combines 450+ years of in-depth technical knowledge of Linux and kernel development

Seasoned Linux security
expertise

We have a proven track record of security patching with over 120,000 patches to date – and growing

Flexibility to support
custom packages

You can request support for additional server packages that are not currently on our list

Support for mixed Linux
environments

TuxCare can support environments that run multiple types of end-of-life Linux distributions

Great value at a
competitive price

ELS gives you an affordable option to maintain the security and stability of your EOL systems

Frequently Asked Questions

CentOS 7 is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It is widely used by enterprises, web hosting companies, and individual developers for its stability and compatibility with RHEL’s robust set of tools and features.

Yes, you can still use CentOS 7, but after June 30, 2024 the vendor-supplied patches stopped arriving. If you don’t migrate your systems to a supported distribution, then your deployed systems won’t stop running, which puts you at risk of a vulnerability exploit. You can even likely deploy new systems using CentOS 7 after the end-of-life date, but any new vulnerabilities that pop up won’t be patched by the vendor. However, if you sign up for Endless Lifecycle Support (ELS) from TuxCare, you can continue to receive patches and use your CentOS 7 systems securely.

The official security support for CentOS 7 from the CentOS Project ended on June 30, 2024. However, with our Endless Lifecycle Support (ELS) service, you can continue to receive security updates and patches beyond that date – enabling your organization to use CentOS 7 until you’re ready to plan and execute a large-scale migration, which shouldn’t be rushed.

With CentOS 7 and CentOS 8 already in their end-of-life phases and no release of CentOS 9, it’s recommended to migrate to another distribution in the long run to benefit from modern features, improvements, and longer security support. However, migrating to a supported distribution can take up to a year for many organizations. Fortunately, our Endless Lifecycle Support (ELS) ensures that you can securely keep using CentOS 7 while you plan a smooth and safe transition.

Choosing a successor to CentOS 7 depends on your specific needs. There are multiple options available, but many organizations seek a free RHEL-compatible distribution, like AlmaLinux, for instance, because it – and others – are very similar to CentOS 7. Also, with the AlmaLinux ELevate tool, you can migrate your CentOS 7 systems to AlmaLinux 9 seamlessly.

Every major end-of-life enterprise Linux
distribution is covered by TuxCare ELS

TuxCare’s Endless Lifecycle Support is also available for other operating systems, including:

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