[CentOS-devel] CentOS 8 on AWS

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 11:58 PM Thomas Stephen Lee <lee.iitb at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 4:35 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 11:07 AM Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote:
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>> > 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
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>> > > 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) :-(
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>> 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.
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> Hi,
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> Can Red Hat/IBM/Community do something to help?
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> thanks

Sharing a popular AMI out of your own personal account can become....
expensive, for an individual, especially if it's a bit on the buiky
side with graphical applications or development tools. There also may
be bureaucratic or business goal reasons for AWS to delay CentOs 8: I
hope there is no subtle interference going on behind closed doors.