Centos

CentOS Stream is the upstream open-source development platform prior to Red Hat’s Linux distribution.

I first noticed the open-source operating system lifecycle redhat and centos life cycle had ended, and I was wondering what was going on. Besides security issues, dnf wasn’t working, and I recently encountered failures when installing tools – checking the repository sources revealed that CentOS 8 Stream had reached its end of life.

CentOS Stream Introduction

Positioning and Roles

CentOS Stream sits between Fedora Linux (upstream development) and RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, downstream development), acting as a bridge.

Having worked with CentOS for many years, content may not apply to macOS or Ubuntu users in some cases.

You can refer to the documentation from Tsinghua University for installation guidance: https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/help/docker-ce/

Installation

Due to unknown mysterious forces, domestic Docker installation is recommended to set the cloud vendor’s repository address. Here we recommend using Alibaba Cloud.

Set Repository Source Address

yum install yum-utils device-mapper-persistent-data lvm2 && \
sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo http://mirrors.aliyun.com/docker-ce/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

Deploy the Latest Version

Docker is a commonly used background service, we recommend setting it to start on boot. The following command applies to CentOS 7:

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.