CentOS is dead in 2021.

[Dieselboy]

News filtered through to me last week that CentOS is being killed off within 12 months.

Before last week, we had CentOS 8 being supported until 2029 and CentOS 7 until 2024. This week, CentOS 8 is supported until end of 2021 and CentOS announced they are shifting focus to CentOS Stream, which is an unstable not-fit-for-production OS with rolling updates. 
Ref: https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

As you may know, IBM recently purchased Redhat. CentOS 8 is / was the free version of RHEL 8 (pretty much). As we're a Redhat partner we mostly use RHEL but for other work I'll use the CentOS version where appropriate. I've already sent communications out that from this week I'll be deploying Ubuntu instead.

This link (https://www.cyberciti.biz/linux-news/centos-linux-reborn-as-rocky-linux-enterprise-operating-system/) mentions that ubuntu already have around 47% share of the Linux community with CentOS having almost 20%. I anticipate most people moving over to Ubuntu going forward.

Rocky Linux looks promising although no ETA at the moment and I can't see that being a quick turnaround.

Also if IBM/Redhat think they can simply raise prices and bend the customers over then I'll go elsewhere, similar to what I'm already doing for Atlassian when they announced termination of their "Server" products in October to be starting from February 2021 

[Dieselboy]

BTW this also troubles me about the rest of Redhat's dedication to open source - eg Ansible, oVirt, AWX, OKD (Openshift), RDO (openstack). I've met with Redhat and their guys have been adamant that they are dedicated to open source at that time a few years ago. I am interested to know present intentions.

[deanwebb]

We've got one platform on Ubuntu and another on CentOS... we were always thinking of when was that Ubuntu thing coming over to CentOS, but now...