Why bother with any of this. You should build your own images and this is exactly what Image Builder does using lorax/andconda. You can use the same templates to create consistent images across AWS, GCP, Azure and more.
For AWS you might need a couple of RPMs - ec2-utils and ec2-net-utils and maybe another if you want to use instance connect. Just get the src RPMs from an Amazon Linux 2 image, rebuild the RPMS for CentOS8. You don't even need to do any blueprint configs just modify the kickstart templates and you are good to go.
Here's one I put together for a base AMI. Idiomatic and much cleaner that packer. You can build both arm64 and x86_64.
https://gist.github.com/ak2196/53ee89c039f41b3701ba04e89aa72068
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/htm...
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 9:50 AM Alan Ivey alanivey@gmail.com wrote:
I have Packer and shell scripts for using the official RHEL8 AMIs for x86_64 and aarch64 to create minimal (with a couple of AWS-specific tools; search "optional" in the shell script) CentOS 8 AMIs. Hopefully this is helpful to others: https://gist.github.com/alanivey/68712e6172b793037fbd77ebb3112c3f
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 4:41 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 11:58 PM Thomas Stephen Lee lee.iitb@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 4:35 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 11:07 AM Fabian Arrotin arrfab@centos.org
wrote:
On 16/05/2020 16:20, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote:
Hi,
I am a user of CentOS 8. When can we expect an image on AWS? I am just learning AWS and would like to use CentOS 8 for that.
https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/CloudInstance
says that this is the list to ask.
thanks
Lee
we built CentOS 8 AMI for both x86_64 and aarch64 and I was able to import these images in our own account, and could boot these images
fine.
We tried to reach out to AWS multiple times but no answer so actually I'd be tempted to just share for 8.2.2004 release the AMIs and
announce
that nobody can use marketplace but can directly launched shared AMIs when the have the reference , so like what Fedora is doing (we never were able to get the 8.0.1905 nor 8.1911 images published on marketplace) :-(
I've done it by hand now, for CentOS 8 and RHEL 8, by building locally on VirtualBox or VMware Player from installation media and exporting a VM image to import on for an AWSM AMI. It does require some caution: encrypting your root disk images, for example, is considered a good security step. But XFS on CentOS 7 used to present some difficulties, and I wound engaging in some serious "use my own tools to transfer the running OS to a pristine new disk image partitioned the way my client demanded to follow their security standards. I've been pulling that stunt since roughly 1998 when updating and repartitioning operating systeems for a Very Large CDN, the experience is helpful for dealing with mock and chroot dcages. _______________________________________________
Hi,
Can Red Hat/IBM/Community do something to help?
thanks
Sharing a popular AMI out of your own personal account can become.... expensive, for an individual, especially if it's a bit on the buiky side with graphical applications or development tools. There also may be bureaucratic or business goal reasons for AWS to delay CentOs 8: I hope there is no subtle interference going on behind closed doors. _______________________________________________ CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel
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