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 > On 18. Mar 2024, at 08:28, Fabian Arrotin <arr...@centos.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > As you're all aware (we sent multiple mails in the last year about this), > CentOS 7 and Stream 8 will go EOL soon : > https://blog.centos.org/2023/04/end-dates-are-coming-for-centos-stream-8-and-centos-linux-7/ > > Let's lists some things that will happen on the CentOS Infrastructure as > we'll be approching (or passed) these dates : > > # CentOS 7/8s content itself > Usual process : content will be archived to https://vault.centos.org and > removed from mirror.centos.org completely, with just a simple readme file > dropped here (for example http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/readme for > already EOL'ed version). Worth knowing that some SIGs are still building for > RHEL8, still supported for SIGs through https://cbs.centos.org so such kind > of content will continue to be available there as long as SIGs can build > against/for it > > # CBS/koji (https://cbs.centos.org) > No impact on CBS env itself ( not running centos 7 nor 8s for a long time > now) but the various build tag reflecting centos 7 and 8s will be locked so > that nobody would be able to build content anymore : that would even be > impossible as content itself will have been removed from mirror.centos.org > (internally used for cbs build tags) > > # CentOS Forums (https://forums.centos.org) : > still running on centos 7 and even if that's easy to migrate to > newer/supported EL version, it was decided to just shutdown the service > (based on discussion with the actual moderation team). An option (to be > announced on forums.centos.org ?) is to eventually start moving > thread/discussions on Fedora discourse (There is already a CentOS category > there : https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/neighbors/centos/71) > So the plan is just to shutdown forums.centos.org and remove A/AAAA records > from DNS > > # mirrorlist.centos.org service : > Starting from Stream 9 (and above), deployed CentOS instance ares using > Fedora infra mirrormanager instance for metalink= instead of mirrorlist= in > .repo files. We'll just decommission our mirror crawler (also running with a > mix of perl/python2 code), so not validating any mirror for legacy/EOL > releases. mirrorlist.centos.org A/AAAA records will be removed in the > following weeks after c7 will be EOL'ed. > That means that people still running CentOS 7 or 8-stream will not have > functional yum/dnf stack, except if they point to either vault or have > internal mirror but at least people would be aware that distro itself is EOL > and that they shouldn't expect to receive any update anymore > > # CentOS mailing-lists > Currently running on mailman2 stack, on top of CentOS 7 linux : there is WIP > to port everything to up2date mailman3 stack, actually packaged for EPEL9. > We have successfully imported archives into mailman3 and same for lists > config but let's start a different/separate thread to discuss changes (like > renaming lists, see next coming thread) > > Kind Regards, > > -- > Fabian Arrotin > The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org > gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org] > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Aleksandar Ivanisevic Head of Operations and Support 2e Systems Tel: +49 - 6196 - 950 58 14 Fax: +49 - 6196 - 950 58 94 E-mail: aleksandar.ivanise...@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! _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
