[CentOS-devel] How to build CentOS 7 AMI

[Karanbir Singh]

On 11/02/16 01:59, Jeremy Voorhis wrote:
> As a long-time user, I second Alan's concerns. Reproducibility of cloud
> images doesn't seem to be a priority for the major distros, and at best,
> the marketplace throws up a roadblock requiring acceptance through the
> AWS dashboard when setting up a new account.

Couple of things here..

the CentOS AMI's are just the GenericCloud image imported into a block
device and registered as an AMI. there is no magic beyond that.

Secondly, the AMIs are hosted in a vendor environment, we only started
publishing there once the Amazon folks were willing to reach out and
help endorse our existence - and the mechanics they recommend ( and
well, highly encourage ) from our side is participation in the Market
Place. I've been repeatedly told by them that the best user experience
in their infra is via the market place.

In the mean time I've been experimenting with generic AMIs, cross copied
over to othr regions and available in the public catalogue for the
CentOS Atomic Host, and have noticed far more people asking for it in
the Marketplace than folks asking for the CentOS Cloud image outside the
marketplace. Admittedly, this is no metric and most conversations are
face2face or over private email(ugh!), but its a thing.

Let me circle back and in the next monthly build we do, I can also
publish some AMIs outside of the marketplace and see what we get from there.

In the mean time, if anyone can help open channels with Digital Ocean
and Linode, so we can help them run updated images, in line with the
rest of the vendors - would be very appreciated.

regards,

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