[CentOS-devel] How to build CentOS 7 AMI

There has been no further input from CentOS on
https://github.com/CentOS/sig-cloud-instance-build/issues/11. It would be
greatly appreciated if the current GenericCloud kickstart and associated
files and the AWS uploading-related files could be dumped into a Gist for
quick view.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Alan Ivey <alanivey at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> For the compliance portion of my question, on how the GenericCloud images
> were created; I see that this point is being discussed in
> https://github.com/CentOS/sig-cloud-instance-build/issues/11. I can
> continue this portion of the conversation in GitHub.
>
> Alan
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 5:35 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>
> wrote:
>
>> 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,
>>
>> --
>> Karanbir Singh
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