CentOS

Modified: 09 Mar 2023 22:10 UTC

The CentOS images are used to provision instances with a CentOS Linux distribution pre-installed. For more information about CentOS, see centos.org.

CentOS 7
CentOS 6

CentOS 7

This 64-bit image is a basic CentOS 7 Linux distribution containing two volumes:

The root volume is mounted at /

The data volume is pre-formatted and mounted at /data. The size of the data volume is specified when you provision the machine.

# df -hT
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda3      xfs       8.6G  897M  7.7G  11% /
devtmpfs       devtmpfs  492M     0  492M   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs     498M     0  498M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs     498M  6.5M  491M   2% /run
tmpfs          tmpfs     498M     0  498M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/vda1      xfs       497M   80M  418M  17% /boot
/dev/vdb1      ext4       33G   49M   33G   1% /data

CentOS 7: 20190122


Name	centos-7
Description	CentOS 7.6 64-bit image with just essential packages installed, built to run on KVM virtual machines.
UUID	`d6e56c0e-1e51-11e9-8ff1-2fecf38a5566`

What's new in this release

CentOS 7.6 release

CentOS 7: 20181003


Name	centos-7
Description	CentOS 7.5 64-bit image with just essential packages installed, built to run on KVM virtual machines.
UUID	`1f11188a-c71c-11e8-83d4-370e2a698b16`

What's new in this release

CentOS 7.5 release
First CentOS KVM/Bhyve hybrid image

CentOS 7: 20180320


Name	centos-7
Description	CentOS 7 64-bit image with just essential packages installed, built to run on KVM virtual machines.
UUID	`47f66e34-2c6d-11e8-bef9-4780fac9ac03`

What's new in this release

CentOS 7.4 release

CentOS 7: 20170327


Name	centos-7
Description	CentOS 7 64-bit image with just essential packages installed, built to run on KVM virtual machines.
UUID	`66d919a8-132a-11e7-a7b8-5b99fa122880`

What's new in this release

Reduced image size
Only install mandatory packages when installing @Core
Added epel-release and nodejs yum packages
Added json npm package (installed globally)
Removed the folowing yum packages:
- -aic94xx-firmware
- -alsa-*
- -btrfs-progs*
- -centos-logos
- -dracut-config-rescue
- -dracut-network
- -microcode_ctl
- -NetworkManager*
- -ivtv-firmware
- -iwl*firmware
- -plymouth*

CentOS 7: 20161028


Name	centos-7
Description	CentOS 7 64-bit image with just essential packages installed, built to run on KVM virtual machines.
UUID	`60f332de-9d4c-11e6-9c39-171f4c4b5088`

What's new in this release

Updated for CVE-2016-5195

CentOS 7: 20160415


Name	centos-7
Description	CentOS 7 64-bit image with just essential packages installed, built to run on KVM virtual machines.
UUID	`dd31507e-031e-11e6-be8a-8f2707b5b3ee`

What's new in this release

Updated to CentOS 7.2 (1511)

CentOS 7: 20150630


Name	centos-7
Description	CentOS 7 64-bit image with just essential packages installed, built to run on KVM virtual machines.
UUID	`d8e65ea2-1f3e-11e5-8557-6b43e0a88b38`

What's new in this release

Updated guest tools:
- Updated format-secondary-disk script to use sectors as the unit rather than MB. This prevents a rounding error that seems to occur when using MB as the unit value.
Updated OpenSSL (1.0.1e-42.el7.9)

CentOS 7: 20150406


Name	centos-7
Description	CentOS 7 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	`c41bf236-dc75-11e4-88e5-038814c07c11`

What's new in this release

CentOS updated to 7.1 (1503)

CentOS 7: 20150324


Name	centos-7
Description	CentOS 7.0-1406 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	`3269b9fa-d22e-11e4-afcc-2b4d49a11805`

What's new in this release

Updated OpenSSL (1.0.1e-34.el7_0.7) to address multiple security issues (see https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0716.html)

CentOS 7: 20150128


Name	centos-7
Description	CentOS 7.0-1406 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	`02dbab66-a70a-11e4-819b-b3dc41b361d6`

What's new in this release

Updated to address CVE-2015-0235:
- glibc.x86_64 2.17-55.el7_0.5
- glibc-common.x86_64 2.17-55.el7_0.5

CentOS 7: 20141202


Name	centos-7
Description	CentOS 7.0-1406 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	`b1df4936-7a5c-11e4-98ed-dfe1fa3a813a`

What's new in this release

New /lib/smartdc/get-user-data script. Allows you to specify user-data meta data which can be used with user-script
Enable serial console on ttys0. See /etc/default/grub. For SmartOS and Triton DataCenter users, this change allows you to connect to the vm console via the vmadm console <VM UUID> command. Note: systemd enables the ttys0 service automatically when you add console=ttyS0 to the kernel command line.

Software Included in This Image

bash.x86_64                 4.2.45-5.el7_0.4
bzip2.x86_64                1.0.6-12.el7
centos-release.x86_64       7-0.1406.el7.centos.2.5
curl.x86_64                 7.29.0-19.el7
gzip.x86_64                 1.5-7.el7
openssl.x86_64              1:1.0.1e-34.el7_0.6
perl.x86_64                 4:5.16.3-283.el7
postfix.x86_64              2:2.10.1-6.el7
python.x86_64               2.7.5-16.el7
sqlite.x86_64               3.7.17-4.el7
sudo.x86_64                 1.8.6p7-11.el7
wget.x86_64                 1.14-10.el7_0.1
yum.noarch                  3.4.3-118.el7.centos

CentOS 7: 20141112


Name	centos-7
Description	CentOS 7.0-1406 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	`1f061f26-6aa9-11e4-941b-ff1a9c437feb`

What's new in this release

Corrected an issue where the ntpd service was not enabled.
/etc/ntp.conf updated to include reasonable defaults.

Software included in this image

bash.x86_64                 4.2.45-5.el7_0.4
bzip2.x86_64                1.0.6-12.el7
centos-release.x86_64       7-0.1406.el7.centos.2.5
curl.x86_64                 7.29.0-19.el7
gzip.x86_64                 1.5-7.el7
openssl.x86_64              1:1.0.1e-34.el7_0.6
perl.x86_64                 4:5.16.3-283.el7
postfix.x86_64              2:2.10.1-6.el7
python.x86_64               2.7.5-16.el7
sqlite.x86_64               3.7.17-4.el7
sudo.x86_64                 1.8.6p7-11.el7
wget.x86_64                 1.14-10.el7_0.1
yum.noarch                  3.4.3-118.el7.centos

CentOS 7: 20141001


Name	centos-7
Description	CentOS 7.0-1406 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	`553da8ba-499e-11e4-8bee-5f8dadc234ce`

What's new in this release

Updated bash (bash-4.2.45-5.el7_0.4) to address CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169

Software included in this image

bash.x86_64                 4.2.45-5.el7_0.4
bzip2.x86_64                1.0.6-12.el7
centos-release.x86_64       7-0.1406.el7.centos.2.5
curl.x86_64                 7.29.0-19.el7
gzip.x86_64                 1.5-7.el7
openssl.x86_64              1:1.0.1e-34.el7_0.4
perl.x86_64                 4:5.16.3-283.el7
postfix.x86_64              2:2.10.1-6.el7
python.x86_64               2.7.5-16.el7
sqlite.x86_64               3.7.17-4.el7
sudo.x86_64                 1.8.6p7-11.el7
wget.x86_64                 1.14-10.el7
yum.noarch                  3.4.3-118.el7.centos

CentOS 7: 20140820


Name	centos-7
Description	CentOS 7.0-1406 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	`5e164fac-286d-11e4-9cf7-b3f73eefcd01`

What's new in this release

First release
CentOS 7.0-1406 64-bit
Disk is 10GB in size
xfs file system for root ( / ) and /boot partitions
SELinux enabled in permissive mode
US Keyboard and Language
Firewall enabled with SSH allowed
Passwords are using SHA512
Firstboot disabled
Timezone is set to UTC
Updated vm guest tools including many fixes found in the Debian 7 images
avahi-daemon.service service disabled by default
kdump.service service disabled by default
Default packages installed:
- @core
- acpid
- iputils
- man
- net-tools
- ntp
- ntpdate
- parted
- vim-common
- vim-enhanced
- vim-minimal
- wget

Software included in this image

bash.x86_64     4.2.45-5.el7
bzip2.x86_64    1.0.6-12.el7
curl.x86_64     7.29.0-19.el7
gzip.x86_64     1.5-7.el7
openssl.x86_64  1:1.0.1e-34.el7
perl.x86_64     4:5.16.3-283.el7
postfix.x86_64  2:2.10.1-6.el7
python.x86_64   2.7.5-16.el7
sqlite.x86_64   3.7.17-4.el7
sudo.x86_64     1.8.6p7-11.el7
wget.x86_64     1.14-10.el7
yum.noarch      3.4.3-118.el7.centos

CentOS 6

This 64-bit image is a basic CentOS v.6 Linux distribution containing two volumes:

The root volume is mounted at /.
The data volume is pre-formatted and mounted at /data. The size of the data volume is specified when you provision the machine.

# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1             9.9G  2.4G  7.0G  26% /
tmpfs                 500M     0  500M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/vdb1              30G  172M   28G   1% /data

CentOS 6: 20180819


Name	centos-6
Description	CentOS 6.9 64-bit image with just essential packages installed, built to run on KVM virtual machines.
UUID	`11891f44-a374-11e8-9c35-c7bfcc724881`

What's new in this release

First CentOS 6.9 KVM/BHYVE hybrid

CentOS 6: 20170621


Name	centos-6
Description	CentOS 6.9 64-bit image with just essential packages installed, built to run on KVM virtual machines.
UUID	`6aac0370-56b8-11e7-a29b-df1de8b42795`

What's new in this release

Fixed issue where loopback wasn't getting configured

CentOS 6: 20170407


Name	centos-6
Description	CentOS 6.9 64-bit image with just essential packages installed, built to run on KVM virtual machines.
UUID	`822d0acc-1ba7-11e7-873f-971cd2728133`

What's new in this release

Updated for CentOS 6.9

CentOS 6: 20170327


Name	centos-6
Description	CentOS 6.8 64-bit image with just essential packages installed, built to run on KVM virtual machines.
UUID	`c743297a-1328-11e7-ac69-df9fae73cd97`

What's new in this release

Reduced image size
Only install mandatory packages when installing @Core
Added epel-release, nodejs and npm yum packages
Added json npm package (installed globally)
Removed the folowing yum packages:
- -aic94xx-firmware
- -atmel-firmware
- -bfa-firmware
- -ipw*-firmware
- -ivtv-firmware
- -iwl*firmware
- -libertas-*-firmware
- -ql*-firmware
- -rt*-firmware
- -xorg-x11-drv-ati-firmware
- -zd1211-firmware

CentOS 6: 20161028


Name	centos-6
Description	CentOS 6.8 64-bit image with just essential packages installed, built to run on KVM virtual machines.
UUID	`8a1dbc62-b885-11e5-b0de-1777d1a6eb10`

What's new in this release

Updated for CVE-2016-5195
Updated to CentOS 6.8

CentOS 6: 20160111


Name	centos-6
Description	CentOS 6.7 64-bit image with just essential packages installed, built to run on KVM virtual machines.
UUID	`7511a554-9d54-11e6-9e89-2f0abaeb0ada`

What's new in this release

Added openssh-clients package (making scp available)

CentOS 6: 20150811


Name	centos-6
Description	CentOS 6.7 64-bit image with just essential packages installed, built to run on KVM virtual machines.
UUID	`234c4a6e-402e-11e5-a311-8bc6aad0d65f`

What's new in this release

Updated to CentOS 6.7

CentOS 6: 20150630


Name	centos-6
Description	CentOS 6.6 64-bit image with just essential packages installed, built to run on KVM virtual machines.
UUID	`84676612-1f36-11e5-b535-d31fd3a29f25`

What's new in this release

Updated guest tools:
- Updated format-secondary-disk script to use sectors as the unit rather than MB. This prevents a rounding error that seems to occur when using MB as the unit value.
Updated OpenSSL (1.0.1e-30.el6.11)

CentOS 6: 20150324


Name	centos-6
Description	CentOS 6.6 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	`7a50b1da-d22c-11e4-8ffe-071989ea571f`

What's new in this release

Updated OpenSSL (1.0.1e-30.el6_6.7) to address multiple security issues (see https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0715.html)

CentOS 6: 20150128


Name	centos-6
Description	CentOS 6.6 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	`5becfd74-a70d-11e4-93a6-470507be237c`

What's new in this release

Updated to address CVE-2015-0235

glibc.x86_64 2.12-1.149.el6_6.5
glibc-common.x86_64 2.12-1.149.el6_6.5

CentOS 6: 20141202


Name	centos-6
Description	CentOS 6.6 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	`b94d11d6-7a65-11e4-add0-93f38d3f5c5c`

What's new in this release

The /etc/motd and /etc/product files now have the correct CentOS version (CentOS 6.6)
New /lib/smartdc/get-user-data script. Allows you to specify user-data meta data which can be used with user-script
Enable serial console on ttys0. See /boot/grub/grub.conf and /etc/init/ttyS0.conf. For SmartOS and SmartDataCenter users, this change allows you to connect to the vm console via the vmadm console <VM UUID> command.

Software included in this image

bash.x86_64                 4.1.2-29.el6
bzip2.x86_64                1.0.5-7.el6_0
centos-release.x86_64       6-6.el6.centos.12.2
curl.x86_64                 7.19.7-40.el6_6.1
db4.x86_64                  4.7.25-18.el6_4
gzip.x86_64                 1.3.12-22.el6
openssl.x86_64              1.0.1e-30.el6_6.4
perl.x86_64                 4:5.10.1-136.el6_6.1
postfix.x86_64              2:2.6.6-6.el6_5
python.x86_64               2.6.6-52.el6
sqlite.x86_64               3.6.20-1.el6
sudo.x86_64                 1.8.6p3-15.el6
wget.x86_64                 1.12-5.el6_6.1
yum.noarch                  3.2.29-60.el6.centos

CentOS 6: 20141112


Name	centos-6
Description	CentOS 6.6 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	`f37b10cc-6a9f-11e4-9181-e3d137d947bf`

What's new in this release

Corrected an issue where the ntpd service was not enabled.

	For this release, the /etc/motd and /etc/product file have the incorrect CentOS version. The CentOS version is 6.6, not 6.5.

Software included in this image

bash.x86_64                 4.1.2-29.el6
bzip2.x86_64                1.0.5-7.el6_0
centos-release.x86_64       6-6.el6.centos.12.2
curl.x86_64                 7.19.7-40.el6_6.1
db4.x86_64                  4.7.25-18.el6_4
gzip.x86_64                 1.3.12-22.el6
openssl.x86_64              1.0.1e-30.el6_6.4
perl.x86_64                 4:5.10.1-136.el6_6.1
postfix.x86_64              2:2.6.6-6.el6_5
python.x86_64               2.6.6-52.el6
sqlite.x86_64               3.6.20-1.el6
sudo.x86_64                 1.8.6p3-15.el6
wget.x86_64                 1.12-5.el6_6.1
yum.noarch                  3.2.29-60.el6.centos

CentOS 6: 20141001


Name	centos-6
Description	CentOS 6.5 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	`26f85622-497a-11e4-ba93-3fe7b89aea1a`

What's new in this release

Updated bash (4.1.2-15.el6_5.2) to address CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169

Software included in this image

bash.x86_64                 4.1.2-15.el6_5.2
bzip2.x86_64                1.0.5-7.el6_0
centos-release.x86_64       6-5.el6.centos.11.2
curl.x86_64                 7.19.7-37.el6_5.3
db4.x86_64                  4.7.25-18.el6_4
gzip.x86_64                 1.3.12-19.el6_4
openssl.x86_64              1.0.1e-16.el6_5.15
perl.x86_64                 4:5.10.1-136.el6
postfix.x86_64              2:2.6.6-6.el6_5
python.x86_64               2.6.6-52.el6
sqlite.x86_64               3.6.20-1.el6
sudo.x86_64                 1.8.6p3-12.el6
wget.x86_64                 1.12-1.11.el6_5
yum.noarch                  3.2.29-43.el6.centos

CentOS 6: 20140828


Name	centos-6
Description	CentOS 6.5 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	`bf67d2fc-2ed1-11e4-a6ef-a7df3cdba7e9`

What's new in this release

Updated vm guest tools including many fixes found in the Debian 7) images
Updated packages including openssl (1.0.1e-16.el6_5.15) and centos-release (6-5.el6.centos.11.2). See below for more details.

Software included in this image

bash.x86_64                 4.1.2-15.el6_4
bzip2.x86_64                1.0.5-7.el6_0
centos-release.x86_64       6-5.el6.centos.11.2
curl.x86_64                 7.19.7-37.el6_5.3
db4.x86_64                  4.7.25-18.el6_4
gzip.x86_64                 1.3.12-19.el6_4
openssl.x86_64              1.0.1e-16.el6_5.15
perl.x86_64                 4:5.10.1-136.el6
postfix.x86_64              2:2.6.6-6.el6_5
python.x86_64               2.6.6-52.el6
sqlite.x86_64               3.6.20-1.el6
sudo.x86_64                 1.8.6p3-12.el6
wget.x86_64                 1.12-1.11.el6_5
yum.noarch                  3.2.29-43.el6.centos

CentOS 6: 20140710


Name	centos-6
Description	CentOS 6.5 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	`61a3035a-0864-11e4-b55b-9f87d4149e90`

What's new in this release

The version number is now based on the build date: 20140710
Address an issue where interfaces are named as eth1 and eth2 instead of eth0 and eth1 on first provision
duo-login is no longer pre-installed (this includes duo_unix, libduo, and pam_duo packages)
OpenSSL updated to 1.0.1e-16.el6_5.14 which addresses various security issues (see https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0625.html.

Software included in this image

bash.x86_64     4.1.2-15.el6_4
bzip2.x86_64    1.0.5-7.el6_0
curl.x86_64     7.19.7-37.el6_4
db4.x86_64      4.7.25-18.el6_4
gzip.x86_64     1.3.12-19.el6_4
openssl.x86_64  1.0.1e-16.el6_5.14
perl.x86_64     4:5.10.1-136.el6
postfix.x86_64  2:2.6.6-2.2.el6_1
python.x86_64   2.6.6-51.el6
sqlite.x86_64   3.6.20-1.el6
sudo.x86_64     1.8.6p3-12.el6
wget.x86_64     1.12-1.8.el6
yum.noarch      3.2.29-40.el6.centos

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