Virtualization SIG quarterly report, Dec 1 2018 - February 28 2019 Purpose Packaging and maintaining different FOSS based virtualization applications that one can install and run natively on CentOS. https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization Membership Update We are always looking for new members. Tomasz Baranski and Yuval Turgeman joined the SIG for oVirt project. Releases and Packages oVirt 4.2 reached […]
In this post, we're going to talk about how to use buildah to build container images on CentOS. buildah is a command line tool that facilitates building OCI compliant images. There's a plethora of information available around what buildah is on its GitHub landing page so we won't dive more into what it is. However, […]
Just a quick update - the schedule from the recent CentOS Dojo at FOSDEM has been updated to include the videos from each presentation. Note: Three of the talks are missing video due to equipment failure.
Dear CentOS enthusiast, Another month into 2019, and we have a lot to tell you about. Releases and updates SIG updates Events Contributing to the newsletter Releases and updates Errata and Enhancements Advisories We issued the following CEEA (CentOS Errata and Enhancements Advisories) during January: Errata and Security Advisories We issued the following CESA (CentOS […]
On February 1st (last week) there were a large number of enhancements/updates released by the CentOS community: Errata and Enhancements Advisories We issued the following CEEA (CentOS Errata and Enhancements Advisories): CEEA-2019:0178 CentOS 7 libreswan Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023152.html CEEA-2019:0180 CentOS 7 osinfo-db Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023171.html Errata and Security Advisories We issued the following CESA […]
On Friday of last week, we once again gathered in Brussels for our annual CentOS Dojo at FOSDEM. 14 speakers gave talks on a wide variety of topics, ranging from deeply technical, to community-centered, to a vision of what's coming in CentOS 8. The full schedule is on the event website, and the videos from […]
We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.10 and CentOS Linux 7.6.1810 for x86_64. All included packages have been updated to January 28th, 2019. Known Issues The VirtualBox Guest Additions are not preinstalled; if you need them for shared folders, please install the vagrant-vbguest plugin and add the following line […]
NFV SIG Quarterly Report through February 1st, 2019 Purpose The CentOS NFV SIG exists to support Network Function Virtualization (NFV) in CentOS. Specifically, the idea is to be a vehicle to provide packages for implementers of software networks on the CentOS platform. Membership Update In this reporting period, we have had little formal participation. However, […]
As per the SIG reporting guide, the Promo SIG offers its quarterly report for the period from Nov 1, 2018 through Feb 1, 2019 Purpose The CentOS Promotion SIG exists to provide promotion, and consistent messaging, of CentOS, both at physical events and online. Membership Update In the reporting period, we have had participation from […]
Purpose The CentOS PaaS SIG is working on delivering multiple PaaS Stacks that are built, tested and delivered into the CentOS Ecosystem for end user consumption, run as a service and also provided in various formats ( rpms, containers, images etc ) for other efforts in the CentOS Ecosystem, that can derive value from this […]