CentOS 6.5 (x86_64) - Release Media
CentOS.org | 6.5 - 2013-12-01Linux/Unix, CentOS 6.5 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
A warning
This is a warning to any potential users of this AMI.
The root partition created from this AMI cannot be attached to any other instances. What this means is that if you ever loose your keys or passwords (if enabled) and you are not to log into the instance by any means, you may never recover from it. Not without a lot of issues.
See https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=565235򉿳
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Love Centos, but not the AMI
Centos folks should take a loot at Amazon Linux to make this AMI useful.
1- Cloud-Init not installed, how do you expect User Data to be passed to the instance and setup automatically?
We don't want to create an AMI from this AMI, we automate everything with Chef and want to be able to always use your latest posted AMIs.
This is major deficiency.
This an an AMI right? what is the use of an Amazon Image if it does not conform to Amazon way of working things.
2- No ability to resize the root partition (See Dennis Atanassov's and Boingo Labs comments)
3- Not able to detach the boot volume and attach it to another instance (see John Pese's comments) to investigate issues or fix problems.
4- Not fond of allowing root login, but it could have been addressed post instance creation in chef scripts if cloud-init was there. (ideally a sudo enabled user should be the default account to to start with)
Otherwise this image would have gotten 5 stars.
Thanks
CentOS 6.5
Super easy to set up server for multiple purposes.
CentOS it's just great, robust OS and easy to deal with.
5 out 5
The best choice for the latest Puppet
TL;DR: If you need the latest Puppet 3.x on your EC2, go with CentOS.
I tried very hard -- about two days of concentrated effort -- to get Puppet 3.6 to run on Amazon OS, which -- at the time of this writing -- only supports Puppet 2.7. I tried every recommendation I could find to make it work; whether forcing Ruby 1.8 onto the box, forcing Puppet 3.6 to use Ruby 1.8, and other flavors of this theme. In the end, it just wasn't possible for me to force Puppet 3.6 to run on Amazon OS.
In my web searching, I discovered that CentOS was available for EC2 instances and seemed to have good support for Puppet. Sure enough, it worked on the very first try!
Excellent - but where is an HVM version?
This fits perfectly with what I wanted in the past. However, now we're trying to use t2 instance types - which require HVM. Will you guys release HVM versions?
Thanks,
Upsetting Marketplace Restriction
Let me start out by saying CentOS is a great operating system, it is what I have used for years; it handles everything I throw at; my go-to server operating system.
The reason why I am giving this 1 star is simply that there is a marketplace restriction on this AMI preventing you from mounting the root volume to another instance. This is horribly inconvenient. If something causes the instances not to boot correctly you must put in a ticket with AWS support to have this restriction lifted in order to troubleshoot.
Personally I do not understand why this restriction would be put in place, although it is rare I need to mount the root volume elsewhere, if it does happen it is EXTREMELY frustrating. To my knowledge this is not explained anywhere in the description of the AMI. Having made several AMIs based off of this product prior to finding out this restriction I am pretty angry.
If this AMI did not have this restriction this would be a 5-star review.
Great Distro
I am relying on this distro as a solid Glassfish bare metal foundation! The distro is rock solid and preconfigured with secure settings including network Iptables.
A must for Redhat Distro
CentOS 6.5 as it should be
Looks like a clean, stable installation of CentOS 6.5. No problems - using it for an Asterisk in the cloud installation in a VPC, so far without any issues.
Perfect
Hi, like write on the title, just perfect, answer 100% to my neccessity for start production server, a minimal installation like install by myself
Great Stable Image
Image is light, fast and have what it says. Stable base on which you can create your own environment.