Love the stability of CentOS,
but unsure what to do post EOL?
CentOS 7 is a stable Linux distribution; however, with its EOL in 2024, vulnerabilities are no longer being patched, leaving your deployments exposed to bad actors, threats, and inefficiencies.
CIQ Bridge helps you mitigate CentOS 7 concerns.
Remain secure
Remain stable
Remain operational
“CentOS 7 is still one of the most utilized operating systems used among enterprise IT organizations worldwide and we are happy to keep it alive for a bit longer to ensure that everyone has ample time to reliably migrate.”
What’s included with CIQ Bridge
for CentOS 7?
CIQ Bridge supports the default 3.10 kernel version and mission-critical API/ABI compatible userspace packages included with CentOS 7. It extends CentOS’s life through remediation of Critical and Important/High vulnerabilities (CVEs) via private package repository.
CentOS 7 CVE remediation
Secure and mirrored repo access
CentOS 7 kernel and userspace support
CentOS support and services from the experts.
Founded by one of the co-founders of CentOS, Gregory Kurtzer, CIQ is uniquely qualified to support you with your ongoing use of the Linux distribution. We are Linux professionals with deep expertise in the kernel, userspace and deployment complexities.
Services
Onboarding
Support
Extended support
CVEs, CentOS 7 and CIQ Bridge:
How it works.
There have been hundreds of CVEs identified for CentOS 7 since its EOL in 2024. CIQ has resolved many of these and CIQ Bridge provides automation to apply the appropriate patches to CentOS 7 so you can remain secure and stable. With CIQ Bridge, our team prioritizes patches, pushes them and applies them in intervals.
CVE prioritization
Availability via private repositories
Applied in intervals and complete reporting
Rocky Linux: A purpose built migration target for CentOS 7.
Rocky Linux was created in 2021 as a direct result of the EOL of CentOS 7. It is built with the same stability and reliability focus of CentOS and delivers enterprise-grade performance. The Rocky Linux team designed it to be a natural migration target for those looking to move from CentOS 7.
Ready to migrate to Rocky Linux?
When you're ready, CIQ offers expert guidance to easily transition your infrastructure to CIQ supported Rocky Linux, ensuring minimal disruption to your operations.