rocky-tools VS almalinux-deploy

Rocky Linux has migration scripts available at https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky-tools/tree/main/migrate...

An easy shortcut though, in case you have to hand type it out somewhere, is https://rockylinux.org/migrate2rocky.sh

We have a conversion script for 9 here.

https://docs.rockylinux.org/guides/migrate2rocky/ https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky-tools/tree/main/migrate2rocky

I used Rocky Linux to migrate the CentOS 8 Servers, the migration was just done using the migrate2rocky.sh script from https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky-tools/tree/main/migrate2rocky.

You can also convert an Oracle Cloud to Alma or Rocky then install ApisCP. If you do, append -s has_low_memory=1 to the installer.

If going with Oracle Linux it's necessary to convert to Alma or Rocky before installing the 30-day trial. This also doubles as a great hack for a free 1 GB DNS-only server.

I run the migration script today and I encountered this pellicular error:

migrate2rocky.sh is a 1200 line bash script that appears to call dnf dozens of times. Granted, at the time he didn't know exactly what the migration path was going to look like, so call this one a broken promise rather than a false statement.

It's covered in Rocky's docs and the migrate2rocky README, relevant excerpt here:

Running another 8.x? Move to AlmaLinux using almalinux-deploy.

I mention that because you had to be at CentOS 8 latest, and since CentOS is now a stinkin pile of nothingness, there are adjustments path wise to point at Alma's capture of that in order to prep to make the jump. I think all that is documented here: https://github.com/AlmaLinux/almalinux-deploy

You can also convert an Oracle Cloud to Alma or Rocky then install ApisCP. If you do, append -s has_low_memory=1 to the installer.

If going with Oracle Linux it's necessary to convert to Alma or Rocky before installing the 30-day trial. This also doubles as a great hack for a free 1 GB DNS-only server.

Just follow those steps to migrate centos to almalinux: https://github.com/AlmaLinux/almalinux-deploy

I understand from here that it is recommended to update to CentOS 8.5. I have carefully inspected the recommended approaches from the README and this issue and attempted to cobble together something that I believe should work but I am facing some issues.

I used the Almalinux deploy script to switch to Alma.

A version of our Open Source hosting control panel (BlueOnyx 5210R) was initially shipped with CentOS 8 as base OS before we switched the installation media to AlmaLinux. Those that were still running CentOS 8 were informed via the GUI to convert to AlmaLinux by running the AlmaLinux conversion script that we had bundled with an update or ours.

Thanks for the questions. We already have several migration options. If you're currently on CentOS 8 or any other EL8 you can use this: https://github.com/AlmaLinux/almalinux-deploy. If you are on CentOS 7.x you can use our ELevate project: https://almalinux.org/elevate.