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 --- Lee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20200517/1099c368/attachment-0007.html>