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Red Hat and CentOS don't have any official relationship. It's CoreOS you're referring to. RHEL's binaries may be available for some SW, but license-wise cannot
by BossingAround 7y ago
Red Hat and CentOS don't have any official relationship. It's CoreOS you're referring to. RHEL's binaries may be available for some SW, but license-wise cannot be used for production workloads unless explicitly stated.
CentOS can be used for whatever you wish, but that's not a RH binary of course.
- zaat 7y agoTotally official relationships: https://community.redhat.com/centos-faq/ https://community.redhat.com/centos-faq/
- BossingAround 7y agoSo, it depends a lot what you consider an 'official relationship'. You cannot pay and be supported on CentOS. If you talk to Red Hat and you say 'we have CentOS running', the first thing they'll talk to you about is how do you migrate to RHEL, because no officially-supported products from RH run on CentOS. That said, it is in RH's best interest to have a free version of RHEL that customers can try out and migrate their workloads to, precisely because it's easy to migrate them to RHEL. So yes, in that sense, there's some relationship. You're correct though that there's a lot more relationship than I previously thought. Thanks for the link! I'll update my knowledge :).