[CentOS-virt] CentOS 7 AMI Building

Fri Apr 17 16:20:33 UTC 2015
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

I highly recommend actually looking at the images :)

its just a minimal install with cloud-init from extras/ added in ( for
7, the 6 ones dont have cloud-init ).

the installed content delivered from the minimal.iso and the ami's
should be identical in pretty much every respect. If you really want a
kickstart for it, I can build one, but just run a minimal.iso install,
add cloud-init to the %packages and bob's your uncle.

On 16/04/15 17:48, Jason Antman wrote:
> Yes... we currently use Packer to achieve a repeatable build process,
> from scratch. We'd like to replicate that and be able to build from
> scratch without spinning up an EC2 instance, in an automated way.
> 
> I don't know how to phrase this, so apologies if it comes across wrong,
> I have immense respect for you personally and for CentOS... but, is it
> really that difficult to post the kickstarts and/or build scripts
> somewhere? Or at least enough of them to replicate something similar?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:56 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org
> <mailto:mail-lists at karan.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 04/14/2015 12:48 PM, Jason Antman wrote:
>     > Hello,
>     >
>     > I'm new to this list, but I noticed a post from March 30th inquiring
>     > about the build scripts for the official CentOS7 AMIs. I'm also
>     > interested in this; I'm tasked with (unfortunately) spinning up some VMs
>     > in our corporate VMWare environment that are "as close as possible" to
>     > the official CentOS7 AMIs. I could attempt to reverse-engineer them and
> 
>     do you need to do much more than qemu-img convert -O vmdk
>     <centos-genericcloud.qcow2> ?
> 
> 
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