Please update centos-latest runners

Summary

I noticed today that even though the standard runners used in many projects labeled centos-latest are (in contrast to its name) not really up to date with latest centos-stream. They still base on centos-8 that is EOL since December 31, 2021.

What is the current bug behavior?

centos-latest points to an EOL version of centos.

What is the expected correct behavior?

centos-latest points to a recent, not EOL version of centos.

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Priority

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Severity

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Impact

With the migration of SWT to centos-9 for producing binaries it will become prominent that many projects use outdated "latest" centos that is still based on centos 8 and probably fail to run tests when using still outdated OS.

added IT-prioritymedium IT-severitynormal service:CI team:releng labels

assigned to @fgurr

We will no longer support CentOS-based images as default pod templates. We are in the process of switching to Ubuntu-based images. It's been a way too long journey that originally started here: #1623, but we are finally getting there.

The labels will stay in place for now, to avoid breaking builds, but we recommend switching to the new labels, when they are available.

Expect more communication about this soon.

Many thanks please let us know as this is currently blocking migration, using a different label seems workable as long as it is general available.

Discussion continues here: #1623

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