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Introducing Flamingo: A Lightweight Cloud Instance Contextualization Tool for CentOS Atomic Host

Friday, 24, July 2015 Tamer Tas distro, GSoC 3 Comments

When using on-demand instantiation of virtual machines in cloud computing, users pass configuration data to the cloud and that data is used for configuring the instances. This process is called contextualization. Contextualization includes identity(users, groups), network, system services and disk configuration. Flamingo is a contextualization tool that is being developed under GSoC 2015 that aims to handle […]

Another Proof of Concept armv7hl Release, this one for the Raspberry Pi2

Monday, 22, June 2015 Johnny Hughes arm, builds, distro, General, GSoC 36 Comments

Ten days ago I wrote an article here about an armv7hl test image for the Cubietruck 32-bit ARM board.  I have just uploaded a similar armv7hl image for the Raspberry Pi2. Both of these images are created with the RootFS Build Factory (a 2015 CentOS GSoC Project from Mandar Joshi sponsored by the CentOS Project). […]

CentOS-7 (1503) armv7hl Proof of Concept (pre-alpha) Image available for the Cubietruck

Friday, 12, June 2015 Johnny Hughes arm, builds, distro, General, GSoC 1 Comment

As Jim Perrin pointed out in an earlier post here on seven.centos.org, we have commenced an armv7 (actually, armv7hl) open build to try and produce CentOS-7 for arm32 boards like the Cubietruck, Raspberry Pi2, and ODROID-C1 (among others). We now have a minimal sdcard only image for the Cubietruck from our unsigned (and as yet […]

Rolling ISO Media release 1505 for CentOS 7 (x86_64) Now Available

Thursday, 11, June 2015 Johnny Hughes announcement, builds, distro, General No Comments

The rolling ISO media releases for CentOS 7 for May 2015 (1505) are now available. These rolling ISO media releases are basically just respins of the install media at release time with all bugfix, enhancement, and security updates since release rolled in.  The updated ISOs for 1505 are based on all updates in the CentOS […]