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 >> +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh >> GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-devel mailing list >> CentOS-devel at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20160304/5f0682b1/attachment-0007.html>