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Next Linux version at CERN

Presented by Thomas Oulevey

• n the behalf of Linux Support Team

10/09/2014

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AGENDA

• Introduction : CentOS 7,
• CERN CentOS 7,
• Community,
• Ongoing tasks,
• Questions.

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CENTOS 7

• Following Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 release

CentOS Core SIG released CentOS 7 on 7th

• f July 2014
• http://wiki.centos.
• rg/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7

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CERN CENTOS 7

What is it ?

• TEST version released on 04/08/2014
• CentOS 7 upstream rpms (very same

packages released by CentOS team),

• CERN CentOS 7 updates are staged,
• CERN CentOS 7 includes the 'yum-

autoupdate',

• http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/centos7/

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CENTOS COMMUNITY

• Very welcoming,
• All build logs/git repos/docs available,
• Open discussion on the mailing-list / IRC,
• We contributed part of our Koji experience to

install/manage the Community Build Server, patch sent upstream for review.

• Access to qa code,
• Testing of the cloud image on our Openstack

infrastructure,

• Future collaboration discussed: openafs,

software collections

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ONGOING TASKS

• Cloud image effort ( oz based ) : https:

//github.com/cernops/openstack-image-tools

• cern/cernonly yum repositories,
• Building infrastructure has been updated to

support el7 and team are able to provide test version of their package,

• Configuration management/monitoring team

looking after puppet modules, systemd/journald, monitoring, hardware support etc…

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Questions

QUESTIONS ?

http://cern.ch/linux

Thank you !