Are your end-of-life systems protected?
Worried about protecting your CentOS 7 workloads since the distribution has gone end of life? TuxCare‘s Extended Lifecycle Support is ready to take over so you can carry on with your CentOS 7 systems securely, smoothly, and as planned.
Security support for CentOS 7 ended on June 30, 2024
Get the time you need to properly plan, test, and deploy a migration plan to a
more recent Linux distribution – at your own pace
Only pay for the exact amount of coverage you need (and nothing you don’t)
with our two ELS pricing options.
Get everything included in ELS Standard, plus:
* Starting from the date the vulnerability is publicly disclosed
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.
Ensure a secure and well-executed transition
for your CentOS 7 systems
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).
Guide
Step-by-step instructions on shifting to a forever-free, RHEL compatible, community-driven CentOS replacement
You have about two years of CentOS 7 support left. Red Hat will cease providing updated packages for current CentOS Linux 7 users in June 2024. It should leave you with enough time to migrate to another operating system, but you may decide to continue using CentOS 7 for as long as possible. It could be to avoid the need to upgrade other applications, or because you simply can’t migrate your workloads within the two-year period.
Even though the official Red Hat support for CentOS 7 will end in June 2024, you can sign up for TuxCare Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) in 2024 which will ensure that you keep your workloads safe and secure for many more years.
When the CentOS project announced that no future stable releases of CentOS will be published it didn’t mean that CentOS distributions would stop working. You’ll always be able to use CentOS 7, but you will lose official support in 2024 with the CentOS 7 EOL date set in June and there will be no minor releases either.
Considering the bigger picture, CentOS versions that exist as a stable release Linux distribution are indeed going away because CentOS 8 is already end of life, and there won’t be a CentOS 9 release date. With no official support, CentOS users won’t get protected by new vendor patches for emerging vulnerabilities or bug fixes. You need to either switch to an alternative Linux distribution or find an alternative source of support.
For many intents and purposes, yes. You and the rest of the CentOS community have until June 2024 to continue using CentOS Linux 7 with official support. It’s pointless to upgrade to CentOS 8, because it’s already end of life, and there won’t be a CentOS version of RHEL 9 – so no CentOS Linux 9.
Could the continuous delivery CentOS Stream work for your organization? There is a chance, but if you used CentOS versions because it is binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you’re out of luck. So, CentOS Linux as you knew it is discontinued – but soon, you’ll be able to sign up for many extra years of extra support for CentOS 7, so there’s no need to panic.
That’s when official Red Hat Software support ends for CentOS 7. That means that Red Hat will no longer provide patches and updates for CentOS 7, even if there is a critical vulnerability that must get fixed.
While end of life for CentOS 7 is only due June 2024, it is worth starting your planning to migrate early. Unable to plan migration for production systems in time? Watch this space for TuxCare’s CentOS 7 extended lifecycle support.
