Besides using third party repos, you can also use Red Hat Software Collections for the official Red Hat offering of more recent packages (requires RHN, not avai

Besides using third party repos, you can also use Red Hat Software Collections for the official Red Hat offering of more recent packages (requires RHN, not available for CentOS). https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Software_Collections/1/html/1.1_Release_Notes/chap-RHSCL.html https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Softwa... As another approach to mitigating dependency hell, you might consider using Docker containers for your services.