Hi folks, I had a few questions in regards to the CentOS AMI: Are there instance backed versions of the AWS marketplace CentOS builds? It looks like there might have been at one point, but I'm not seeing them now, and since they're marked as being from the marketplace we're having some difficulties attaching the volumes to another system to create an instance backed version of it. Any ideas? Is it possible to download the AMI from somewhere and re-upload them so they don't have the Marketplace restrictions? I checked cloud.centos.org, but it seems like they files there haven't been updated in a while. It's my understanding that?projectraindrops.net was used to build the AMIs, is it possible to run that service locally? Thanks! cs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20130731/c022d6c0/attachment-0006.html>
Hi CS, those are all good questions and I asked quite similar ones already half a year ago: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2013-February/003190.html And apart from me, also other people raised the same issue, e.g. here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2013-June/003334.html Or here: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6228 Unfortunately, the situation appears to not have changed until today. So the AMIs seem to not be available outside the AWS marketplace, you can't get any instance-backed AMIs from the AWS marketplace and you also cannot convert the EBS-backed AMIs from the marketplace to instance-backed AMIs on your own because of the marketplace product license restrictions. It would be a cool thing to have official, instance-backed CentOS AMIs for AWS. But somehow, I've lost hope a bit meanwhile... Best regards, Michael Quoting CS <cove_s at yahoo.com>:> Hi folks, > > I had a few questions in regards to the CentOS AMI: > > Are there instance backed versions of the AWS marketplace CentOS > builds? It looks like there might have been at one point, but I'm > not seeing them now, and since they're marked as being from the > marketplace we're having some difficulties attaching the volumes to > another system to create an instance backed version of it. Any ideas? > > Is it possible to download the AMI from somewhere and re-upload them > so they don't have the Marketplace restrictions? I checked > cloud.centos.org, but it seems like they files there haven't been > updated in a while. > > It's my understanding that?projectraindrops.net was used to build > the AMIs, is it possible to run that service locally? > > Thanks! > > cs
Hi, On 07/31/2013 04:07 PM, CS wrote:> Are there instance backed versions of the AWS marketplace CentOS builds?No, there are a couple of issues with the way we do the AWS Market Place setup that make this inconvenient. But hang in there, I'm working on an alternative!> Is it possible to download the AMI from somewhere and re-upload them so > they don't have the Marketplace restrictions? I checked > cloud.centos.org, but it seems like they files there haven't been > updated in a while.cloud.centos.org will be the right place, that is exactly the target that I am working to develop.> It's my understanding that projectraindrops.net was used to build the > AMIs, is it possible to run that service locally?You should be able to use that service as is ( the aim of projectraindrops is not to deliver open source software, but to deliver and maintain a service that just-works and has a reasonable feature spec ). The CentOS images are not built with it, the CentOS images are build in a replica install that runs inside the centos buildservices. Regards -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc