Key Alternatives for CentOS 8 Discontinuation and Migration

Much to the dismay of CentOS users, Red Hat recently announced that CentOS Linux 8 will no longer be supported and will be discontinued at the end of 2021. CentOS 8 will be replaced by the rolling version, CentOS Stream, as the downstream branch of RHEL, which will continue to make the upstream version more stable and secure.

However, CentOS 7 running servers, will not get affected and have the updates in parallel to the RHEL 7 life cycle. RHEL 7 will end its last maintenance cycles in 2024.

However, if you are using CentOS 8, then what are the alternatives in 2021? Unfortunately, even though if you find the one then migration of server applications will be another challenge. Yet, here are some options to replace CentOS in 2021.

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