[CentOS-devel] where is the geeric cloud image source code

Jim Perrin

jperrin at centos.org
Wed Jul 12 17:08:05 UTC 2017


They're on github, for the cloud images, docker, and vagrant.

https://github.com/CentOS/sig-cloud-instance-build/

On 07/10/2017 06:07 PM, Chengwei Yang wrote:
> Thanks Johnny,
> 
> I recently found that it write some scripts in /etc/rc.local which
> change root password to a random password and lock it.
> 
> In addition, I found it created an centos account at first boot.
> 
> I think there may other changes here, so where can I find these *source
> code*?
> 
> Thanks anyone in advance!
> 
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 09:22:25AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 06/13/2017 02:37 AM, 杨成伟 wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I found centos genericcloud image for openstack at
>>> https://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/obtain-images.html#centos
>>>
>>> but I didn't found any release note for these images, so I didn't known
>>> what's difference between genericcloud image and the official centos
>>> release, e.g. centos 6.8, 7.2 release and etc.
>>>
>>> Is there any wiki/doc/releasenote?
>>
>> There is no real difference, the Generic Images are a point time image
>> made from CentOS (either 6 or 7) for the end of the month for that date.
>>  For example, CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud-1705.qcow2c is an image
>> created with the latest packages from the end of May 2017, and is
>> represented as 1705 (YYMM).
>>
>> It is basically a minimal install (plus the cloud-init RPM and it's
>> dependencies) that you can add things to with 'yum install' and it
>> includes the base OS and the updates from May 31, 2017.  We do one every
>> month.  It works just like a minimal install of CentOS if you did it
>> from the installation ISOs. Here is a link:
>>
>> http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/
>>
>> We also have vagrant box installs and atomic installs if you need those
>> instead of VM images:
>>
>> http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/atomic/images/
>>
>> http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/vagrant/x86_64/images/
>>
>> All of these images are just a different way to get base CentOS plus
>> updates for the end of a given month.
>>
>> We also create an ISO set for the same date here, if you prefer ISO
>> installs to images:
>>
>> https://buildlogs.centos.org/rolling/7/isos/x86_64/
>>
>> Those are also point in time (end of the month) ISO sets that are base
>> CentOS plus all updates at the time they are generated.
>>
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