An updated version of CentOS Atomic Host (tree version 7.20161006), is now available, featuring the option of substituting the host's default docker 1.10 container engine with a more recent, docker 1.12-based version, provided via the docker-latest package. CentOS Atomic Host is a lean operating system designed to run Docker containers, built from standard CentOS 7 […]
Official Vagrant images for CentOS Linux 6 and CentOS Linux 7 for x86_64 are now available for download, featuring updated packages to 30 September 2016, as well as the following user-visible changes: the centos/7 image now uses the XFS filesystem, which is the default filesystem when installing CentOS Linux 7 from the official DVD images fixed issue […]
The CentOS Infrastructure team will be moving the machines hosting cbs.centos.org, ci.centos.org and accounts.centos.org on October 10th, 2016. We expect a downtime of 48hrs. Contact us in #centos-devel on freenode at any time during that period for questions, or watch the centos-devel mailing list for the latest updates. The servers, switches, PDUs, and even the […]
UPDATE 2016-09-08: Due to additional checks, we had to retire v1608.01 from Atlas and release it again as v1608.02. The two versions are identical. Official Vagrant images for CentOS Linux 6 and CentOS Linux 7 for x86_64 are now available for download, featuring updated packages to 31 August 2016, as well as a new image […]
Since yesterday, we have production-ready automated tests for our Vagrant images on ci.centos.org, fully integrated with GitHub. We were only able to build and test scratch images manually until now, which was time consuming and had the disadvantage that, due to hardware limitations on my side, only the images for VirtualBox were actually tested. A […]
An updated version of CentOS Atomic Host (tree version 7.20160818), featuring support for rpm-ostree package layering, is available for download. Using the command rpm-ostree pkg-add, it's now possible to layer new packages into an installed image that persist across reboots and upgrades. CentOS Atomic Host is a lean operating system designed to run Docker containers, […]
Official Vagrant images for CentOS Linux 6 and CentOS Linux 7 for x86_64 are now available for download, featuring updated packages to 28 July 2016 and the following improvements: Follow upstream Vagrant recommendations: The default Vagrant sync directory is set to /vagrant sshd DNS lookups are disabled by default The root password is set to […]
Official Vagrant images for CentOS Linux 6 and CentOS Linux 7 for x86_64 are now available for download, featuring updated packages to 1st July 2016 and some improvements: the default timezone is set to UTC (instead of New York, USA) NTP is enabled by default (using ntpd on CentOS Linux 6 and chrony on CentOS […]
An updated version of CentOS Atomic Host (tree version 7.20160707) is now available for download, featuring updated versions of docker (1.10.3) and the atomic run tool (1.10.5). CentOS Atomic Host is a lean operating system designed to run Docker containers, built from standard CentOS 7 RPMs, and tracking the component versions included in Red Hat […]
I've been asked a few times about running virtual machines on the ARMv8 AArch64 platform, so it may be time to document the procedure. There are a few packages you'll need to make this happen, so lets install them first. The AAVMF package is the one noticeable difference between AArch64 and x86_64. It contains the […]