[heroprotagonist]

Besides using third party repos, you can also use Red Hat Software Collections for the official Red Hat offering of more recent packages (requires RHN, not available for CentOS).

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Softwa...

As another approach to mitigating dependency hell, you might consider using Docker containers for your services.

[sciurus]

Software Collections are available for CentOS.

http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/SCL

[heroprotagonist]

Very nice, thank you.