Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-18 Thread Johnny Tan
On 06/11/2010 02:17 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: Ok, so since there is some level of interest and a few people have offered to test, let me get something together and post some details Our AWS technical reps stopped by our office the other day. They said the primary issue with CentOS in terms of

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 18/06/2010 20:25, Johnny Tan wrote: But since we have a business relation with them already and are under NDA, we did tell them we were happy to develop the proper AKI/ARIs and give those to CentOS to vet. So they will send us the API to do so, shortly. Please dont communicate to them or

[CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: Not being awkward here, but I'm not going to accept any such thing when it does not involve me directly and I am fairly certain that this would extend to all the other CentOS developers as well. heartily concur; I manage the NDAs to which I am even

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-18 Thread Johnny Tan
On 06/18/2010 04:55 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: Please dont communicate to them or anyone else that the CentOS project or people representing it will agree to be bound under any NDA that they didnt sign themselves. And certainly not when done by proxy. This was definitely not what we

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
hi Don, On 15/06/2010 21:29, Don MacAskill wrote: I'm happy to help in some way, too. We have barebones CentOS 5 images we've been using in EC2 for a long time, and our process for initially creating them is fairly well documented, so holler if I can help. Thanks for your offer, I might just

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-15 Thread Don MacAskill
I'm happy to help in some way, too. We have barebones CentOS 5 images we've been using in EC2 for a long time, and our process for initially creating them is fairly well documented, so holler if I can help. Thanks, Don On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.orgwrote:

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-15 Thread Andrei
Hello Don, I would be more than interested about CentOS on EC2. Regards, -- Andrei On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Don MacAskill d...@smugmug.com wrote: I'm happy to help in some way, too. We have barebones CentOS 5 images we've been using in EC2 for a long time, and our process for

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-11 Thread Johnny Tan
On 06/08/2010 07:45 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/06/2010 16:13, Johnny Tan wrote: We'd be willing to QA test. We also have various reps at AWS we can work with, in addition to be being beta-testers for new features (there will be some changes to AKIs/ARIs soon). Ok, so since there is some level of interest and a few people have offered

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-09 Thread J. Jefferson Gray
We're currently running almost 20 instances with aws. We're using CentOS 5.4/5.5 as the base, and the 2.6.18 kernel image provided by amazon in the form of their 2.6.18-ec2-v1.4(may have that form wrong). This works well, but its also from December 2009 so we're 6 months off where Cent is now.

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-09 Thread Wes Shull
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:39 AM, J. Jefferson Gray je...@surfmerchants.com wrote: We're currently running almost 20 instances with aws.  We're using CentOS 5.4/5.5 as the base, and the 2.6.18 kernel image provided by amazon in the form of their 2.6.18-ec2-v1.4(may have that form wrong).  This

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/06/2010 01:31, R P Herrold wrote: ummm -- Amazon does not use our kernel, and makes other changes. This makes it a downstream fork, as I see it. Afaik, AMI's can run CentOS kernels. - KB ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
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

[CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-07 Thread Johnny Tan
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.

[CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-07 Thread R P Herrold
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