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As announced by CentOS.org the CentOS Linux 8 has reached End Of Life (EOL) on December 31st, 2021

This means that since 1st of January 2022 CentOS 8 doesn't receive any updates, either nomal bug fixes or fixes for security vulnerabilities.

Since 31 January 31st 2022 also CentOS 8 official repositories were closed, and are no more available from any of the known mirrors. The CentOS archive was moved to  vault.centos.org

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  • migrate your VM from CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream 8
  • rebuild your VM using one of the other available operating systems: Ubuntu 18....04 or 20.04, CentOS Stream 8 or 9, Rocky Linux


In case you choose to migrate from CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream 8 we are advising you to use the following comands:

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# Update to the latest version of CentOS 8 & reboot
$ sudo dnf update
$ sudo shutdown -r now

# Install CentOS Stream packages repositories 
$ sudo dnf in centos-release-stream

# Migrate from CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream 8 & reboot
$ sudo dnf swap centos-linux-repos centos-stream-repos
$ sudo dnf distro-sync
$ sudo shutdown -r now

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Note

Due to the high number of packages that will be updated or installed during the migration it is not guaranteed the correct functioning of previously configured services. You have to check them and ensure they are working properly.


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