CentOS Connect

In-place upgrades of Centos Stream with leapp
2026-01-30 , Sycamore 1

leapp has long been a trusted and robust tool for in-place upgrades of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We have recently expanded its functionality enabling in-place upgrades for CentOS Stream.

This presentation will cover:
- An introduction to leapp and the complex challenges of in-place upgrades that it addresses, demonstrating why you might prefer its automated, analytical approach over existing solutions.
- A detailed discussion on CentOS Stream upgrades, including a brief demonstration.
- A quick look at an exciting upcoming feature in the leapp project: the ability to perform upgrades and conversions between CentOS-like systems, such as CentOS Stream, RHEL, AlmaLinux, and Rocky Linux in one step.

Software engineer at Red Hat working on in-place upgrades and conversions of RHEL and other Centos-like operating systems.

A Software Engineer/Product Owner who has been working at Red Hat on conversions between Linux distributions and major version upgrades of RHEL.