5 thoughts on - CentOS 7/8s EOL : Infrastructure Impacts (please Read)

• Hi,

  do we know what happens with the images at major hyperscalers and when? I’m interested specifically about GCP. Who is in charge of CentOS-cloud project in GCP? You or Google?

  $ gcloud compute images describe CentOS-stream-8-v20240312 –project CentOS-cloud architecture: X86_64
  archiveSizeBytes: ‘7072654848’
  creationTimestamp: ‘2024-03-12T11:46:50.983-07:00′
  description: CentOS, CentOS, Stream 8, x86_64 built on 20240312
  diskSizeGb: ’20’
  family: CentOS-stream-8
  guestOsFeatures:
  – type: UEFI_COMPATIBLE
  – type: VIRTIO_SCSI_MULTIQUEUE
  – type: SEV_CAPABLE
  – type: GVNIC
  id: ‘1486194601799523829’
  kind: compute#image labelFingerprint: 42WmSpB8rSM=
  licenseCodes:
  – ‘3197331720697687881’
  licenses:
  – https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/CentOS-cloud/global/licenses/CentOS-stream name: CentOS-stream-8-v20240312
  rawDisk:
  containerType: TAR
  source: ”
  selfLink: https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/CentOS-cloud/global/images/CentOS-stream-8-v20240312
  sourceType: RAW
  status: READY
  storageLocations:
  – eu
  – asia
  – us

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  Aleksandar Ivanisevic Head of Operations and Support
  2e Systems

  Tel: +49 – 6196 – 950 58 14
  Fax: +49 – 6196 – 950 58 94
  E-mail: Aleksandar.Ivanisevic@2e-systems.com

  Address: 2e Systems GmbH, Koenigsteiner Str. 107, 65812 Bad Soden am Taunus Company registration: Amtsgericht Koenigstein (Germany), HRB 7303
  Director: Philip Douglas

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• Images in Google are definitely not generic, they have google stuff preconfigured, i.e. DNS, gcloud, custom google scripts that fetch from instance metadata etc.

  I’ve also asked Google support, let’s see.

• Hi,

  In thread…

  https://lists.CentOS.org/pipermail/CentOS/2024-March/1078098.html

  …the mention of the AMIs got me thinking about these images.

  https://www.CentOS.org/download/aws-images/

  Will the CentOS Linux 7 AMI images continue to be available after June 30
  2024, so people can use the last image, attach ELS repos from TuxCare or Perforce and plow on using CentOS 7 for a while? What’s the plan for these images AMI references?

• Just in case anyone is interested, Google has no plans of removing old images, whether they will switch them to vault remains to be seen, I have tried to advise them but who knows what seeped through from the 1st level support. This is what I got from their support:

  Hello Aleksandar,

  Thank you for sharing information.
  Regarding your issue “you want to know about CentOS Stream 8 as they will soon be EOL”.
  We completely agree with you about images that already hit the EOL and marked as deprecated are available and usable and working fine.
  What product specialist team wants to inform is there is no plan from GCP to delete those images completely. They will be marked as deprecated and so they might need to use the “–show-deprecated” flag in the UI/gcloud[1] after EOL. However, they will still be usable and available. We are not saying the images will be unavailable and you can’t use them.
  You can use these images with your VMs but with your existing CentOS Stream 8 based VMs, limited technical support is available through Google Cloud after they hit ELO.

  —
  Aleksandar Ivanisevic Head of Operations and Support
  2e Systems

  Tel: +49 – 6196 – 950 58 14
  Fax: +49 – 6196 – 950 58 94
  E-mail: Aleksandar.Ivanisevic@2e-systems.com

  Address: 2e Systems GmbH, Koenigsteiner Str. 107, 65812 Bad Soden am Taunus Company registration: Amtsgericht Koenigstein (Germany), HRB 7303
  Director: Philip Douglas

  http://www.2e-systems.com – making your business fly!