Security News > 2021 > September > Moving Forward After CentOS 8 EOL

Worse, the fact that stable releases of CentOS were discontinued in exchange for the rolling-release CentOS Stream means that to secure their workloads most CentOS 8 users have to opt for an entirely different Linux distribution, with just a year to choose, evaluate and implement an alternative.

CentOS is not dead. Red Hat will continue to release new versions of CentOS through CentOS Stream, but it is a rolling release: updates can come at any time, and it will inevitably mean that CentOS Stream is quickly out of sync with the most recent RHEL release.

CentOS 8 support ends in just a few months so there isn't a lot of time to think about securing CentOS 8 instances.

Downgrading to CentOS 7 to obtain a few additional years of support from Red Hat looks like an easy solution but it isn't - there is no simple way to roll a CentOS 8 instance back to CentOS 7.

For many CentOS users the news about CentOS dawned relatively recently, and as we outlined - deciding on an alternative and preparing to switch takes time, something that CentOS 8 users don't have right now.

From Dec 31, 2021 CentOS 8 will become increasingly vulnerable to security threats - and so would any workload that runs on CentOS 8.

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