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.