Almalinux distributionors based on Cloudlinux in response to premature collaboration of CENTOS 8 support, presented elevate , allowing you to simplify the migration of the CENTOS 7.x work plants Distributions built on the RHEL 8 batch base with the preservation of applications, data and settings. Currently, the project is supported by Migration on Almalinux, Rocky Linux, Centos Stream and Oracle Linux.
The migration process is based on the use of the developed company Red Hat LEAPP , which is supplemented by Patches , taking into account the specifics of CentOS and third-party distributions built on the RHEL packet base. The project also involved the advanced set of metadata , describing steps to transfer individual packets from one distribution branch to another.
For migration, enough Connect the , install a package with a migration script to the selected distribution (Leapp-Data-Almalinux, Leapp-Data-CentOS, Leapp-Data-Oraclelinux, Leapp-Data-Rocky) and run the utility “Leapp.” For example, to go to Rocky Linux you can perform the following commands, pre-updating your system to the current state: