CentOS Linux 8 Reaches End-of-Life

Re:CentOS Linux 8 Reaches End-of-Life by InvaderFizz on Friday December 31, 2021 @01:10PM (#29750725)

I'm sure it trims many things down to a general VM baseline, but they can't trim all the different hypervisor hardware support.

Unbeknownst to many, you can run AmazonLinux on-prem[0], AWS distributes their image on a public pages (we use this to allow developers to have the same image locally and on the cloud).

Additionally, you can export any AMI to a S3 bucket[1] and download that for local use.

0: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/amazon-l...

1: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmexp...

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Re:CentOS Linux 8 Reaches End-of-Life by stewartesmith on Monday January 03, 2022 @01:17PM (#29784117)

For Amazon Linux, the recipes are slightly different for the AMI versus on-Prem. For the AMI we cut out a bunch of things from the initramfs that you don’t typically need in a cloud environment saving a further second (ish) of launch time. This config is in the Dracula-config-ec2 package.

For on-Prem you may actually use this, so we don’t build it in there.

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