

If you check the compatibility matrix in the official documentation you’ll find this:

I did a fresh installation of CentOS 8 which brings me to this release: ~]$ cat /etc/centos-release

In this post we’ll look into how you can switch from CentOS 8 to Red Hat 8, as this is what we’re doing for one of our customers currently. For most enterprise workloads CentOS stream is not a solution as it is rolling release, and if you want to keep a Red Hat compatible enterprise distribution there are the following alternatives: This forces a lot of companies to either switch to an alternative or to stick with CentOS stream. We have quite a few customers still running on CentOS 8 and you probably already are aware that CentOS 8 will be end of life by the end of this year.
