If you are using CentOS for CI you have no choice because you cannot use RHEL developer licenses. Also note that CentOS Stream will sometimes have different ABI / APIs, so you can no longer test or build EPEL packages locally.
Can the CentOS community continue developing / rebuilding CentOS linux?
Red Hat states that we will not invest hardware, resources or volunteers to work on this, and we will not allow the CentOS branding to be used for such a project, as they believe it dilutes what we are trying to do. with a reorientation to CentOS Stream. However, the code is open source and they won't try to stop anyone from using it or create their own packages from the code.
What will happen with CentOS 7
CentoS 7 will continue to run until the end of the buy bulk sms service RHEL 7 lifecycle. So there will be no impact on CentOS 7 users.
Conclusion
I think this is the wrong move on the part of Red Hat. The main advantage of CentOS is that it provides 100% binary compatibility with RHEL. At work, we mostly used CentOS for testing as we focus on RHEL, but it saves a lot of money. CentOS has been our "solid test platform" for MySQL, PHP, Nginx, Java, and many other applications. When the application is ready, we will deploy it to the RHEL 8 cluster. Of course, we can get a RHEL developer subscription, but only one free Red Hat developer subscription can be added to a user account for this purpose. So, if you have seven developers, six more developers can create their own accounts at developers.redhat.com. We have to deal with additional accounts. So, if developers want a free RHEL clone, Oracle Linux might be the next best bet.
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