1.6.0

CentOS-7 Minimal Base Box Build Templates

Build templates minor releases/architectures

• CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-2009.iso

Virtual Guest Details

• Providers: libvirt / virtualbox.
• GuestAdditions: No.
• Vagrant synced_folder: Disabled.
• Storage: SATA, 40GB, sparse.
• SELinux: permissive.
• Locale: Limited to en_US.
• Root account: Locked.
• Password authentication: No (SSH public key only).

Variant Notes

• The Cloud-Init and AMI variants are configured with a user:password of centos:centos.
• The AMI variant does not include a SWAP partition.
• The AMI variant has a minimal 4GB disk but will grow to the size defined during the launch process.
• The AMI variant does not include the Vagrant insecure public key.

Release notes

• Adds support for CentOS-7.9.2009.
• Adds support for building with VirtualBox 7.
• Adds support for building libvirt Vagrant provider boxes.
• Fixes download-iso makefile target when failing over to archive repo.

1.5.0

CentOS-7 Minimal Base Box Build Templates

Build templates minor releases/architectures

• CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1908.iso

Virtual Guest Details

• Provider: VirtualBox only.
• GuestAdditions: No.
• Vagrant synced_folder: Disabled.
• Storage: SATA, 40GB, sparse.
• SELinux: permissive.
• Locale: Limited to en_US.
• Root account: Locked.
• Password authentication: No (SSH public key only).

Variant Notes

• The Cloud-Init and AMI variants are configured with a user:password of centos:centos.
• The AMI variant does not include a SWAP partition.
• The AMI variant has a minimal 4GB disk but will grow to the size defined during the launch process.
• The AMI variant does not include the Vagrant insecure public key.

Release notes

• Adds support for 7.7.1908.
• Fixes download-iso Makefile target.
• Updates AWS import instructions.

1.4.0

CentOS-7 Minimal Base Box Build Templates

Build templates minor releases/architectures

• CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1810.iso

Virtual Guest Details

• Provider: VirtualBox only.
• GuestAdditions: No.
• Vagrant synced_folder: Disabled.
• Storage: SATA, 40GB, sparse.
• SELinux: permissive.
• Locale: Limited to en_US.
• Root account: Locked.
• Password authentication: No (SSH public key only).

Variant Notes

• The Cloud-Init and AMI variants are configured with a user:password of centos:centos.
• The AMI variant does not include a SWAP partition.
• The AMI variant has a minimal 4GB disk but will grow to the size defined during the launch process.
• The AMI variant does not include the Vagrant insecure public key.

Release notes

• Adds 7.6.1810 builds.

1.3.0

CentOS-7 Minimal Base Box Build Templates

Build templates minor releases/architectures

• CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1804.iso

Virtual Guest Details

• Provider: VirtualBox only.
• GuestAdditions: No.
• Vagrant synced_folder: Disabled.
• Storage: SATA, 40GB, sparse.
• SELinux: permissive.
• Locale: Limited to en_US.
• Root account: Locked.
• Password authentication: No (SSH public key only).

Variant Notes

• The Cloud-Init and AMI variants are configured with a user:password of centos:centos.
• The AMI variant does not include a SWAP partition.
• The AMI variant has a minimal 4GB disk but will grow to the size defined during the launch process.
• The AMI variant does not include the Vagrant insecure public key.

Release notes

• Adds 7.5.1804 builds.
• Adds 1024M default RAM allocation for all variants.

1.2.2

CentOS-7 Minimal Base Box Build Templates

Build templates minor releases/architectures

• CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708.iso

Virtual Guest Details

• Provider: VirtualBox only.
• GuestAdditions: No.
• Vagrant synced_folder: Disabled.
• Storage: SATA, 40GB, sparse.
• SELinux: permissive.
• Locale: Limited to en_US.
• Root account: Locked.
• Password authentication: No (SSH public key only).

Variant Notes

• The Cloud-Init and AMI variants are configured with a user:password of centos:centos.
• The AMI variant does not include a SWAP partition.
• The AMI variant has a minimal 4GB disk but will grow to the size defined during the launch process.
• The AMI variant does not include the Vagrant insecure public key.

Release notes

• Adds support for AMI compatible build.
• Adds notes on AWS VM Import process.

1.2.1

CentOS-7 Minimal Base Box Build Templates

Build templates minor releases/architectures

• CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708.iso

Virtual Guest Details

• Provider: VirtualBox only.
• GuestAdditions: No.
• Vagrant synced_folder: Disabled.
• Storage: SATA, 40GB, sparse.
• SELinux: permissive.
• Locale: Limited to en_US.
• Root account: Locked.
• Password authentication: No (SSH public key only).
• Variant Notes: The Cloud-Init variant is configured with a user:password of centos:centos.

Release notes

• Adds logging output to Cloud-Init build spec.

1.2.0

CentOS-7 Minimal Base Box Build Templates

Build templates minor releases/architectures

• CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708.iso

Virtual Guest Details

• Provider: VirtualBox only.
• GuestAdditions: No.
• Vagrant synced_folder: Disabled.
• Storage: SATA, 40GB, sparse.
• SELinux: permissive.
• Locale: Limited to en_US.
• Root account: Locked.
• Password authentication: No (SSH public key only).
• Variant Notes: The Cloud-Init variant is configured with a user:password of centos:centos.

Release notes

• Adds 7.4.1708 builds.
• Fixes issue with builds not restoring the original Vagrantfile template.

1.1.1

CentOS-7 Minimal Base Box Build Templates

Build templates minor releases/architectures

• CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1611.iso

Virtual Guest Details

• Provider: VirtualBox only.
• GuestAdditions: No.
• Vagrant synced_folder: Disabled.
• Storage: SATA, 40GB, sparse.
• SELinux: permissive.
• Locale: Limited to en_US.
• Root account: Locked.
• Password authentication: No (SSH public key only).
• Variant Notes: The Cloud-Init variant is configured with a user:password of centos:centos.

Release notes

• Adds user variable for vagrantfile_template.
• Adds support for Packer 1.0.0.

1.1.0

CentOS-7 Minimal Base Box Build Templates

Build templates minor releases/architectures

• CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1611.iso

Virtual Guest Details

• Provider: VirtualBox only.
• GuestAdditions: No.
• Vagrant synced_folder: Disabled.
• Storage: SATA, 40GB, sparse.
• SELinux: permissive.
• Locale: Limited to en_US.
• Root account: Locked.
• Password authentication: No (SSH public key only).
• Variant Notes: The Cloud-Init variant is configured with a user:password of centos:centos.

Release notes

• Adds kexec-tools package back into the build.
• Removes kdump.
• Removes dracut-config-rescue from the box. Disables rescue image generation.
• Adds xz (instead of gzip) compression to the initramfs.
• Adds mkfsoptions option to kickstart config for the root volume.
• Adds change of inode ratio to 4096 from the default 16384, increasing inodes from ~2M to ~9M.
• Adds CentOS-7.3.1611 build templates.
• Adds correction to indentation in Makefile.
• Adds 1GB default for /boot partition in line with CentOS 7.3 requirements.
• Adds corrections to CentOS-7 kickstart packages exclude list.

1.0.0

CentOS-7 Minimal Base Box Build Templates

Build templates minor releases/architectures

• CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1511.iso

Virtual Guest Details

• Provider: VirtualBox only.
• GuestAdditions: No.
• Vagrant synced_folder: Disabled.
• Storage: SATA, 40GB, sparse.
• SELinux: permissive.
• Locale: Limited to en_US.
• Root account: Locked.
• Password authentication: No (SSH public key only).
• Variant Notes: The Cloud-Init variant is configured with a user:password of centos:centos.

Release notes

• Disables cloud-init module cc_locale.
• Adds re-ordered list of cloud-init datasources positioning local-link based services after host route (CloudStack).
• Adds help target for Makefile usage instructions.
• Adds nfs-utils package as a packer provisioning step - Kickstart failed to install this.
• Adds cloud-init configuration to preserve hostname for the Minimal-Cloud-Init variant. The current version of cloud-init fails to correctly set the hostname from hostname meta-data appending .localdomain or throws an error when attempting to set it if using local-hostname.