<div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you for your reply. I was able to import a GenericCloud raw image into EC2 and run successfully. This satisfies my concern of having Marketplace codes attached to EBS volumes. </div><div><br></div><div>For the compliance portion of my question, on how the GenericCloud images were created; I see that this point is being discussed in <a href="https://github.com/CentOS/sig-cloud-instance-build/issues/11">https://github.com/CentOS/sig-cloud-instance-build/issues/11</a>. I can continue this portion of the conversation in GitHub.</div><div><br></div><div>Alan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 5:35 AM, Karanbir Singh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail-lists@karan.org" target="_blank">mail-lists@karan.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 11/02/16 01:59, Jeremy Voorhis wrote:<br>
> As a long-time user, I second Alan's concerns. Reproducibility of cloud<br>
> images doesn't seem to be a priority for the major distros, and at best,<br>
> the marketplace throws up a roadblock requiring acceptance through the<br>
> AWS dashboard when setting up a new account.<br>
<br>
</span>Couple of things here..<br>
<br>
the CentOS AMI's are just the GenericCloud image imported into a block<br>
device and registered as an AMI. there is no magic beyond that.<br>
<br>
Secondly, the AMIs are hosted in a vendor environment, we only started<br>
publishing there once the Amazon folks were willing to reach out and<br>
help endorse our existence - and the mechanics they recommend ( and<br>
well, highly encourage ) from our side is participation in the Market<br>
Place. I've been repeatedly told by them that the best user experience<br>
in their infra is via the market place.<br>
<br>
In the mean time I've been experimenting with generic AMIs, cross copied<br>
over to othr regions and available in the public catalogue for the<br>
CentOS Atomic Host, and have noticed far more people asking for it in<br>
the Marketplace than folks asking for the CentOS Cloud image outside the<br>
marketplace. Admittedly, this is no metric and most conversations are<br>
face2face or over private email(ugh!), but its a thing.<br>
<br>
Let me circle back and in the next monthly build we do, I can also<br>
publish some AMIs outside of the marketplace and see what we get from there.<br>
<br>
In the mean time, if anyone can help open channels with Digital Ocean<br>
and Linode, so we can help them run updated images, in line with the<br>
rest of the vendors - would be very appreciated.<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
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