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High Performance CentOS 7 AMI

The stock RHEL and CentOS AMIs are highly unoptimized and typically out of date. This project aims to create a high-performance CentOS 7 image that is unencumbered of product codes or other restrictions. It now also includes a recent Linux kernel and Docker.

In informal testing (building Chef server clusters) we've been able to cut deploy times by 50%.

These images are built by Chef's Customer Success team for the benefit of our customers. For that reason, all images include the latest ChefDK :)

Credit to the DCOS team, this project is based on their CentOS 7 cloud image

Usage

Building your own image

Simply set your AWS_* environment variables and run packer. The easiest way to do this is to set up your profiles via aws configure and then export the correct AWS_PROFILE variable.

export AWS_PROFILE='myprofile'
packer build packer.json

Consuming existing AMIs

From Terraform

data "aws_ami" "centos" {
  most_recent = true
  owners = ["446539779517"] # Chef success

  filter {
    name   = "name"
    values = ["chef-highperf-centos7-*"]
  }
}

resource "aws_instance" "web" {
  ami           = "${data.aws_ami.centos.id}"
  instance_type = "t2.micro"
}

Latest AMIs

The latest AMIs were Published on 2019/10/07:

ap-northeast-1: ami-0943c71779148970f
ap-northeast-2: ami-042714c24ecf25e26
ap-south-1: ami-08cbb4e76dfee765f
ap-southeast-1: ami-0f65ac71a3f129066
ap-southeast-2: ami-0ff11e1be125ada2f
ca-central-1: ami-0904037074b287caa
eu-central-1: ami-0901dc2ff46fd73a2
eu-north-1: ami-0f3c9a76407b25f84
eu-west-1: ami-0581e1d8ead15c893
eu-west-2: ami-0f415b06e749438de
eu-west-3: ami-07eba3d943b8c05cd
sa-east-1: ami-0bd26fc35cde37dca
us-east-1: ami-02ddb83ff84ca592a
us-east-2: ami-04e2458136bbbbaec
us-west-1: ami-03ec171be9ffd4bdd
us-west-2: ami-0d280b33e51a94243

Changelog:


Previous AMIs

See the CHANGELOG

Contributors

  • Irving Popovetsky (@irvingpop) - Maintainer
  • Gavin Staniforth (@gsdevme)
  • John Jelinek IV (@johnjelinek)
  • Josh Sooter (@jsooter)
  • Siebrand Mazeland (@siebrand)

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