Migrating from CentOS Linux® to Red Hat® Enterprise Linux

Today’s IT landscape requires efficient innovation and adaption, but it can be challenging. Organizations have to balance existing system maintenance with new innovation and technology modernization efforts—without disrupting the speed of business or causing friction between IT teams—and, if you’re running CentOS Linux®, you may also need to implement an unplanned operating system (OS) migration.

In this session, we’ll introduce three ways to modernize and standardize your Red Hat® Enterprise Linux environment that leads to streamlined automation and management as well as accelerated application development and deployment.

In this webinar, we'll cover:

• Convert2RHEL: Standardize on a single platform to empower IT teams to share knowledge and work together on development and deployment as well as efficiently move applications and workloads across footprints.
• LEAPP: In-place upgrades give you access to all the latest functionality.
• Red Hat Insights: Detect risk automatically and follow prescribed guidance to reduce downtime.

Learn about the differences between no-cost, unsupported Linux® distributions and a production operating system (OS) like Red Hat® Enterprise Linux. Understanding security and compliance risks, as well as performance, stability, and availability is a top priority, yet with most no-cost Linux distributions, confidently managing those risks isn’t possible.

Maintain your existing customizations, configurations, and preferences during the migration from CentOS Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the supported Red Hat conversion tool, Convert2RHEL. Users migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux can continue using the same techniques and elements of CentOS Linux with minimal retraining while gaining more features, tools, support, and value since CentOS Linux is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources.

Updates and releases of CentOS Linux® 8 were discontinued on December 31, 2021, and will be discontinued for CentOS Linux 7 on June 30, 2024.

If your organization is running part of your environment on CentOS Linux, attend this session to learn which use cases are best suited for CentOS Stream and which are more appropriate for Red Hat® Enterprise Linux. You will also learn about new programs that make Red Hat Enterprise Linux more accessible, streamline migrations, and require minimal staff retraining.

Organizations running Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® in production and another Linux distribution in their development environments now have an opportunity to standardize on Red Hat Enterprise Linux across those departments with a new no-cost subscription*. Having the same operating system (OS) in production and development enables you to build and test applications on the same innovative and reliable platform used for production workloads, supporting tighter coupling between new application development and the transition to production environments.

With a Red Hat Developer Subscription for Teams, you get all the benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including rapid security updates, access to all Red Hat Enterprise Linux certifications, Red Hat Enterprise Linux management tools, including Red Hat Insights, and access to extended life cycle offerings.

Join this webinar and discover how this new Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription allows more efficient access than ever before.

This webinar is part of a 4-part series where we highlight the many benefits and advantages of migrating from CentOS Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

*Red Hat Developer Subscription for Teams is available for organizations already running other Red Hat technologies.