Migrate from CentOS Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Updates and releases of CentOS Linux 8 were discontinued as of December 31, 2021 and will be discontinued for CentOS Linux 7 on June 30, 2024. As a result, organizations running CentOS Linux must migrate to a new operating system to continue receiving updates, patches, and new features.
 
Cost-wise, it may be tempting to go with an unpaid, unsupported OS. But many rebuilds—especially free versions—are unproven, lack security certifications, and require additional staff and budget to support. 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a fully supported production-grade operating system (OS) available through a subscription and in the cloud. It’s the best long-term migration option for production use.
 
If your organization needs an IT environment with a reliable foundation to achieve cost and business efficiencies, you need more than the bits and code that make up an operating system. You need defined maintenance and update schedules, full support, security resources, a large ecosystem of certified partners, and long-term roadmaps to ensure stability and success. 

The Red Hat Developer Subscription for Teams provides development teams within organizations already running other Red Hat technologies access to self-supported* Red Hat Enterprise Linux at no-cost with enterprise and professional support add-ons available. Standardize on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and empower teams across your organization to build, test, and advance applications on the same reliable platform used for production workloads. 

Qualifications: Red Hat customers. Development usage only. 

The Red Hat Developer Subscription for Individuals is for any individual developer and provides access to the most relevant resources to speed productivity including product bits and activations, how-to videos, demos, guides, and documentation. The subscription may be used for demos, prototyping, QA, and more. It is designed for personal servers, home labs, small open source communities, and small production use cases (up to 16 systems) as a no-cost, self-supported subscription for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Qualifications: Any individual developer (not for use in organizations).

The Red Hat Academic Program has historically offered a low-cost option for academic institutions. A broad range of research and academia-related organizations can enter Red Hat’s academic program, making it easier to access, run, and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux to suit your unique needs—whether it’s simply running a web server or supporting a high-performance computing (HPC) environment.

For more information, email redhat-academic@redhat.com.

This no-cost option is for organizations that are open source projects or non-profit organizations that support the production of open source software and require more Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances than are allowed under the individual developer subscription*. If a software project is sponsored by a for-profit company, Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions can only be used for independent project infrastructure. The organization must also produce or support the production of software distributed under an approved license to qualify.

For more information, email rosi-program@redhat.com.

Do it yourself with Convert2RHEL, a command line utility that enables you to quickly convert from CentOS Linux to fully supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Avoid costly redeployment projects with this streamlined tool that maintains your existing customizations, configurations, and preferences during migration. Gain the control, confidence, and freedom you need to migrate quickly and start taking advantage of everything a Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription has to offer. Convert2RHEL is now fully supported by Red Hat.

Engage Red Hat Consulting to help accelerate your migration. Red Hat experts bring proven knowledge and experience to your migration project. We can help you identify and convert key applications and workloads, and we mentor and enable you to continue confidently afterward.