Howto migrate centos7 to 8x

distributions to migrate supported:

• CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8
• CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 8
• CentOS 7 to Oracle Linux 8
• CentOS 7 to CentOS Stream 8

upgrade current system to latest:

yum update -y

verify your current version:

cat /etc/centos-release

install elevate-release package:

yum install http://repo.almalinux.org/elevate/elevate-release-latest-el7.noarch.rpm -y

install leapp-upgrade and migration-data:

Possible options are:

• leapp-data-almalinux
• leapp-data-centos
• leapp-data-oraclelinux
• leapp-data-rocky

yum install leapp-upgrade leapp-data-almalinux -y

start a preupgrade check:

leapp preupgrade

references

• https://wiki.almalinux.org/elevate/ELevate-quickstart-guide.html