[CentOS] CentOS 7/8s EOL : infrastructure impacts (please read)

Mon Mar 18 11:03:15 UTC 2024
Aleksandar Ivanisevic <aleksandar.ivanisevic at 2e-systems.com>


> On 18. Mar 2024, at 08:53, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote:
> 
> On 18/03/2024 08:43, Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote:
>> Hi,
>> do we know what happens with the images at major hyperscalers and when? I’m interested specifically about GCP. Who is in charge of centos-cloud project in GCP? You or Google?
>> $ gcloud compute images describe centos-stream-8-v20240312 --project centos-cloud
> 
> AFAIK, the team building CentOS Stream doesn't push to google cloud.
> From the artifacts list, I see they push to AWS the built AMIs but not Google Cloud.
> As generic cloud images are pushed to https://cloud.centos.org/centos/8-stream/ , maybe (?) there is a process at the cloud provider side that just looks there and import such images ?

Images in Google are definitely not generic, they have google stuff preconfigured, i.e. DNS, gcloud, custom google scripts that fetch from instance metadata etc.

> I'll let someone from that team answer here though, in case there is a process I'm not aware of, and not visible from the actual push process :)
> 

I’ve also asked Google support, let's see.