Production environment operating systems, with Red Hat and CentOS being the mainstream choices. The documentation includes links to two system lifecycles and shares experience upgrading from CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream 8.

Introduction

In the current domestic environment, Red Hat and CentOS are the mainstream choices for production environments. After experiencing the retirement of Red Hat 6 two years ago, this record includes the official website links for the lifecycles of both systems.

Main Content

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle
• CentOS Product Specifications Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS are the mainstream choices for enterprise servers. RHEL provides stable support and update cycles, suitable for enterprise applications. CentOS as RHEL’s community edition, offers similar functionality and stability but without official support.

Follow-up

When publishing this article, I didn’t expect to update it two years later. Just a few days ago, I upgraded my daily virtual machine from CentOS 8 to CentOS 8 Stream. I can’t say much about what to choose in production – I prefer to keep the latest version in my local environment.

CentOS 8 Stream is a rolling release version that offers faster updates and new features than traditional CentOS, making it suitable for development and testing environments.