We recently added Brightbox support to RedHat’s “cloud appliance builder” project BoxGrinder, which makes it easy to build customised rpm-based distro images.
We’ll be publishing a walk-through guide soon, but in the mean time we’re using BoxGrinder ourselves to automatically publish up-to-date CentOS, Scientific Linux and Fedora server images to our image library (in much the same way as we do with Ubuntu)
You can view the
official
images with the brightbox-images tool:
$ brightbox-images list --type=official
id owner type created_on status size name
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img-3rb1e brightbox official 2011-04-19 public 0 Blank disk image (i686)
img-715uq brightbox official 2011-04-19 public 0 Blank disk image (x86_64)
img-adtke brightbox official 2011-07-20 public 0 Blank disk image (compat) (i686)
img-ztdma brightbox official 2011-07-20 public 0 Blank disk image (compat) (x86_64)
img-rm19n brightbox official 2012-07-04 public 5120 CentOS 6.2 server (i686)
img-ukwoi brightbox official 2012-07-04 public 5120 CentOS 6.2 server (x86_64)
img-t22r8 brightbox official 2012-07-04 public 5125 Fedora 16 server (i686)
img-sk61r brightbox official 2012-07-04 public 5125 Fedora 16 server (x86_64)
img-1okdf brightbox official 2010-11-19 public 20480 FreeBSD 8.1 minimal (i686)
img-aoubd brightbox official 2010-11-19 public 20480 FreeBSD 8.1 minimal (x86_64)
img-obf68 brightbox official 2012-07-04 public 5120 Scientific Linux 6.2 server (i686)
img-hg6z2 brightbox official 2012-07-04 public 5120 Scientific Linux 6.2 server (x86_64)
img-wwgbb brightbox official 2012-05-01 public 769 Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS server (i686)
img-alkg0 brightbox official 2012-05-01 public 769 Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS server (x86_64)
img-ipb1z brightbox official 2012-05-01 public 769 Ubuntu Natty 11.04 server (i686)
img-bj33p brightbox official 2012-05-01 public 1025 Ubuntu Natty 11.04 server (x86_64)
img-57v0y brightbox official 2012-05-01 public 1025 Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 server (i686)
img-hsxaq brightbox official 2012-05-01 public 1025 Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 server (x86_64)
img-at0ha brightbox official 2012-04-26 public 1025 Ubuntu Precise 12.04 LTS server (i686)
img-9h5cv brightbox official 2012-04-26 public 1025 Ubuntu Precise 12.04 LTS server (x86_64)
img-hnigl brightbox official 2012-03-14 public 20480 Windows 2008 Server R2 (x86_64)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The ssh user is brightbox as you can see by inspecting the image
details with brightbox-images show:
$ brightbox-images show img-ukwoi
id: img-ukwoi
type: official
owner: brightbox
created_at: 2012-07-04T10:03Z
status: public
arch: x86_64
name: CentOS 6.2 server (x86_64)
description:
username: brightbox
virtual_size: 5120
disk_size: 618
public: true
compatibility_mode: false
official: true
ancestor_id:
licence_name:You can create linux cloud servers from these images in the normal fashion, but unlike Ubuntu they will not automatically extend the disk partition to use all the available space. The spare space is available for use with additional partitions or LVM as required.
As well as the official images, the test account (acc-tqs4c) contains
versions of these images that are built regularly every week. To list
them, use the --show-all option with the account selector:
$ brightbox-images list --account=acc-tqs4c --show-all | grep '6\.2'
id owner type created_on status size name
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img-du20e acc-tqs4c upload 2012-07-04 public 5120 CentOS 6.2 server (i686)
img-p3mxo acc-tqs4c upload 2012-07-04 public 5120 CentOS 6.2 server (x86_64)
img-wjaa8 acc-tqs4c upload 2012-07-04 public 5120 Scientific Linux 6.2 server (i686)
img-rg60o acc-tqs4c upload 2012-07-04 public 5120 Scientific Linux 6.2 server (x86_64)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In addition, the test account contains our current versions of Fedora 17 and v5 Enterprise Linux derivatives. Testing has highlighted bugs in the distributions that stop these images working automatically on a cloud. We have bugs open upstream and hope to have these images available for you as soon as we can get the bugs fixed.
UPDATE: Fedora 17 images are now working perfectly thanks to the Fedora team fixing the cloud-init bug we reported!