There aren't too many choices if you need to deploy something important in the most boring, reliable and maintainable fashion.
I'm not a "fan" of CentOS like I'm not a fan of Toyota Hilux vehicles but both have their merits.
I'm not a "fan" of CentOS like I'm not a fan of Toyota Hilux vehicles but both have their merits.
[1] I'm fairly certain there are distros derived from Debian which could be a "Hilux distro" but they aren't well-known to me.
(That's not rhetorical -- I honestly don't know.)
Compare https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/centos and https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/debian for exact figures.