CentOS Linux 7 is reaching its end of life

CentOS Linux 7 is reaching its end of life

In 2020, The CentOS Project, in coordination with Red Hat, announced that it would shift full investment to CentOS Stream, the upstream development platform for upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases. As a result, CentOS Linux 7 will reach the end of life (EOL) on June 30, 2024.

What does this mean:

  • CentOS official repositories will no longer be updated, so installed packages will not be receiving any more updates. This means that these VMs will eventually have vulnerabilities that we cannot patch.
  • We will no longer provide a CentOs 7 image for workspace VM creation, date for this isn't decided yet but will probably be slightly before the end of life date.
    • Customers can bring their own CentOs images, but we can't guarantee that they will work in combination with our deployment scripts.
  • Existing CentOS 7 VMs will still be usable at the customer's own risk.
We're also evaluating choices around introducing additional Linux operating system on myDRE portal so that Ubuntu isn't the only choice.
Please let us know what Linux operating system has your preference. 

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