[Users] CentOS 7 OS Template now in contrib

LightDot lightdot at gmail.com
Wed Jul 9 11:55:50 PDT 2014


Scott, thanks for your contributions. Your work is greatly appreciated! Did
you consider putting the build scripts into a github repository? Hopefully,
others could contribute to them or re-use them with more ease.

On another matter, I'm reluctant to use contributed templates I don't know
the source of, at least not in production. Ideally, each contributed
template really should have a link to a post or a wiki page, describing it
in more detail.

Best regards



On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org>
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> ----- Original Message Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org> -----
> > I think at some point Openvz.org should provide trusted builds like
> > docker is doing.
>
> Ok, I'll bite.  What is a "Docker Trusted Build"?  Whatever those are, I'm
> sure the OpenVZ "official" OS Templates are the equivalent.
>
> In several of OS Templates I contribute (Fedora 20, CentOS 6 and 7, SL 6
> [7 ASAP], Oracle EL 6 [7 ASAP]), the build scripts are included within the
> OS Template (/root/create-*.sh) so the user can build their own from
> scratch if desired.
>
> > At least we could get good docs on how those images are built.
>
> There are fairly good docs sprinkled throughout the wiki but it varies
> from distro to distro.
>
> I'd guess that the vast majority of OS Templates come from various chroot
> build environment programs that many distros have now.  Provide those
> programs with a list of packages and they download them from the distro's
> official repositories, extract them into a install root directory, and then
> when done, makes some minor changes for containerization (fix up
> /etc/fstab, eliminate unneeded gettys, etc).  It probably works best when
> you are building distro X from within distro X.
>
> For the contributed OS Templates, there is supposed to be a corresponding
> forum post with build details but very few people seem to follow that
> including myself.  I need to get better at that.
>
> TYL,
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