[CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2(Electronic Compute Cloud)

Thu Jun 4 02:20:34 UTC 2009
Richard Shade <rshade at rightscale.com>

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> On 06/03/2009 08:11 PM, Richard Shade wrote:
> > Sorry for not replying to this earlier, I just saw this thread because
> > of the newsletter. We have had CentOS Images running in the cloud since
> > 09/06/2007,
>
> When I got in touch with amazon a long long time back, the aim was to
> plumb in something into the centos buildsystems, so that we are able to
> churn out an 'official' CentOS image at the same time as we do a release
> for isos etc. They were quite keen initially, but something happened -
> might be related to Martin Buhr moving, and they lost most interest.

Yeah, I have no idea why they decided not to pursue this, however, to
them it could seem to hard to manage many distributions.

>
>
> I would *really* like to get that project back on track. If not then we
> can go the route of just having images that others can use, perhaps not
> from something that amazon provide themselves.

I would be glad to help you with this project. You will need an AmazonAWS
account to
put the images in.

>
>
> > http://s3.amazonaws.com/rightscale_scripts/CentOS5_2V4_0_2_Beta.sh, if
> > you want to roll your own. If anyone needs any help or has any question
> > on this shoot me an email. Also thanks to the CentOS team for all your
> > hard work.
>
> Its always good to know that the work is appreciated! Btw, I've heard
> good things about what you guys are doing at rightscale as well.
>

Thanks, good to hear..

>
>
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Thanks,

Richard Shade
RightScale
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