[CentOS-devel] CentOS 8 on AWS

I have Packer and shell scripts for using the official RHEL8 AMIs for
x86_64 and aarch64 to create minimal (with a couple of AWS-specific tools;
search "optional" in the shell script) CentOS 8 AMIs. Hopefully this is
helpful to others:
https://gist.github.com/alanivey/68712e6172b793037fbd77ebb3112c3f

On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 4:41 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:

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