Who should attend
- System administrators
- DevOps engineers
- IT Professionals responsible for planning and performing the conversion
Prerequisites
Become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or demonstrate equivalent skills with RHEL and CentOS Linux
Course Objectives
Impact on the Organization
This course is intended to enable customers to transition successfully from CentOS Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Included in this offering are methods that:
- Support the community-to-supported conversion
- Provides an overview of the migration process, discussing risks and ways to avoid or mitigate them
Impact on the Individual
As a result of attending this course, students will understand how to migrate existing CentOS Linux servers to supported versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Students should be able to demonstrate the following skills:
- Plan and convert CentOS Linux systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux by using the convert2rhel utility
- Update a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 system to Red Hat Enterprise 8 by using in-place upgrades with Leapp
Course Content
Learn how to migrate existing CentOS Linux servers to supported versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
“Managing CentOS Migrations and RHEL Upgrades” will enable customers to transition successfully from CentOS Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It also enables them to upgrade from one major version of RHEL to the next. This course provides an overview of the migration process and discusses how to avoid and mitigate risks. “Managing CentOS Migrations and RHEL Upgrades” will help users to move from CentOS Linux to RHEL, or to upgrade to a newer version of RHEL.
Course Content Summary
- Identifying the potential risks that are associated with the migration process and implementing a plan to avoid, mitigate, or remediate them
- Converting from CentOS Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Performing in-place upgrades of Red Hat Enterprise Linux