CentOS - Jun 2010 - amazon ec2 and centos?

Searching through the archives, it seems this topic has come up
several times in the past 2.5 years. Did anyone ever take on the
tasks of creating an official CentOS AMI?

We're currently using the RightScale ones, but I think it'd be ideal
to have a clean CentOS AMI with the current kernels.

Karanbir, you seem to have been the one on CentOS side who has had
the most conversations with Amazon. Is that conversation dead?

If we had a small committee with members from this list, would that
help in any way? Ranging from doing the bundling work, to utilizing
our account reps within Amazon to help us push this along?

johnny

On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Johnny Tan wrote:
> Searching through the archives, it seems this topic has come up
> several times in the past 2.5 years. Did anyone ever take on the
> tasks of creating an official CentOS AMI?
ummm -- Amazon does not use our kernel, and makes other 
changes.  This makes it a downstream fork, as I see it.
> We're currently using the RightScale ones, but I think it'd be
ideal
> to have a clean CentOS AMI with the current kernels.
Why would CentOS prefer one vendor over others?  Why prefer 
one NOT using CentOS product? ... particularly when there are 
vendors providing the CentOS provided kernel in a VM already

-- Russ herrold

disclaimer: I work with one of those other vendors that use 
the CentOS provided kernels already

On 08/06/2010 00:32, Johnny Tan wrote:
> We're currently using the RightScale ones, but I think it'd be
ideal
> to have a clean CentOS AMI with the current kernels.
Yes, I would like to have an official CentOS AMI as well and have looked 
into creating something like this previously. The Amazon guys have been 
fairly interested - but dont seem to be wanting to push things beyond 
the 'interested' stages. They are really geared up to working with 
companies and organisations putting forward development costs etc, 
rather than a general community.
> Karanbir, you seem to have been the one on CentOS side who has had
> the most conversations with Amazon. Is that conversation dead?
Pretty much. There are still some inroads and I've spoken with the guys 
at amazon as recently as a month back; but that conversation isn't going 
anywhere beyond the interest factor.

Ideally, what I would like to do is get together some people who have an 
interest in this; not associated with any $commercial provider, and see 
if we can get some level of QA testing done. I dont really want anything 
'official' unless we can be sure that the user experience and 
expectations dont change drastically from a stock CentOS install.

- KB