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> 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> ? > > > -- > Karanbir Singh > +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh > GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20150416/79d96de0/attachment-0002.html>
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> ? > > > -- > Karanbir Singh > +44-207-0999389 <tel:%2B44-207-0999389> | http://www.karan.org/ | > twitter.com/kbsingh <http://twitter.com/kbsingh> > GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org <mailto:CentOS-virt at centos.org> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >-- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc
Ok, thanks so much! That'll do fine. The only other bits mentioned on http://wiki.centos.org/Cloud/AWS in "Image Builder Notes" were the random root password, SELinux enabled, and relabel at first boot, which are easy enough. Thanks so much, Jason On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:> 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> ? > > > > > > -- > > Karanbir Singh > > +44-207-0999389 <tel:%2B44-207-0999389> | http://www.karan.org/ | > > twitter.com/kbsingh <http://twitter.com/kbsingh> > > GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS-virt mailing list > > CentOS-virt at centos.org <mailto:CentOS-virt at centos.org> > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS-virt mailing list > > CentOS-virt at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > > > > -- > Karanbir Singh > +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh > GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20150417/b84d05bd/attachment-0002.html>