[CentOS-devel] CentOS 8 on AWS

Sun May 17 03:57:49 UTC 2020
Thomas Stephen Lee <lee.iitb at gmail.com>

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.
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>
>
Hi,

Can Red Hat/IBM/Community do something to help?

thanks

---
Lee
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