# CentOS 5 and 6 AMIs or boxes

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/centos-5-and-6-amis-or-boxes/1946>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [July 24, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/centos-5-and-6-amis-or-boxes/1946 "2011-07-24T19:04:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![James](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/james/32/232_2.png) [@James](https://discourse.chef.io/u/James)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/centos-5-and-6-amis-or-boxes/1946/1 "2011-07-24T19:04:22Z")

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Does anyone have relatively clean CentOS 5 and 6 AMIs or vagrant boxes? I  
would prefer to use known good images to build Chef and dependencies rather  
than random AMIs which may or may not contain vulnerabilities. RedHat images  
are not an option because my amazon credits don’t cover them.

Thanks!

James

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**Author:** ![AJ\_Christensen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/aj_christensen/32/525_2.png) [@AJ\_Christensen](https://discourse.chef.io/u/AJ_Christensen)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/centos-5-and-6-amis-or-boxes/1946/2 "2011-07-24T19:07:18Z")

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Yo,

On 24 July 2011 12:04, James [js@aegisco.com](mailto:js@aegisco.com) wrote:

> Does anyone have relatively clean CentOS 5 and 6 AMIs or vagrant boxes? I  
> would prefer to use known good images to build Chef and dependencies rather  
> than random AMIs which may or may not contain vulnerabilities. RedHat images  
> are not an option because my amazon credits don't cover them.

There are veewee definitions for centos6.0, probably that other junk  
too. [CentOS-6.0 templates by simonsd · Pull Request #78 · jedi4ever/veewee · GitHub](https://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee/pull/78)

Check out the chef-box project from @dysinger; you might be able to  
make use of it.

[https://github.com/dysinger/chef-box](https://github.com/dysinger/chef-box)

–AJ

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**Author:** ![Charles\_Duffy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/charles_duffy/32/793_2.png) [@Charles\_Duffy](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Charles_Duffy)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/centos-5-and-6-amis-or-boxes/1946/3 "2011-07-24T19:33:55Z")

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Hmm -- that veewee definition looks to be puppet-only.

I can't argue that _too_ much, though, as the one I use is Chef-only (using  
RBEL for packages): [CentOS-6.0 (i386) + RBEL Chef veewee definition · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/1102993)

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 2:07 PM, AJ Christensen [aj@junglist.gen.nz](mailto:aj@junglist.gen.nz) wrote:

> Yo,
> 
> On 24 July 2011 12:04, James [js@aegisco.com](mailto:js@aegisco.com) wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have relatively clean CentOS 5 and 6 AMIs or vagrant boxes? I  
> > would prefer to use known good images to build Chef and dependencies  
> > rather  
> > than random AMIs which may or may not contain vulnerabilities. RedHat  
> > images  
> > are not an option because my amazon credits don't cover them.
> 
> There are veewee definitions for centos6.0, probably that other junk  
> too. [CentOS-6.0 templates by simonsd · Pull Request #78 · jedi4ever/veewee · GitHub](https://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee/pull/78)
> 
> Check out the chef-box project from @dysinger; you might be able to  
> make use of it.
> 
> [https://github.com/dysinger/chef-box](https://github.com/dysinger/chef-box)
> 
> –AJ

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**Author:** ![Patrick\_Debois](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/patrick_debois/32/440_2.png) [@Patrick\_Debois](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Patrick_Debois)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 7:13am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/centos-5-and-6-amis-or-boxes/1946/4 "2011-07-27T07:13:48Z")

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Just wanted to say, that veewee templates should include both chef and  
puppet as a default.

The centos definitions should be usable for both now.

you guys have fun with it

On 24/07/11 21:33, Charles Duffy wrote:

> Hmm -- that veewee definition looks to be puppet-only.
> 
> I can't argue that _too_ much, though, as the one I use is Chef-only  
> (using RBEL for packages): [CentOS-6.0 (i386) + RBEL Chef veewee definition · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/1102993)
> 
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 2:07 PM, AJ Christensen \<aj@junglist.gen.nz  
> [mailto:aj@junglist.gen.nz](mailto:aj@junglist.gen.nz)\> wrote:
> 
> ```
> Yo,
> 
> On 24 July 2011 12:04, James <js@aegisco.com
> <mailto:js@aegisco.com>> wrote:
> > Does anyone have relatively clean CentOS 5 and 6 AMIs or vagrant
> boxes? I
> > would prefer to use known good images to build Chef and
> dependencies rather
> > than random AMIs which may or may not contain vulnerabilities.
> RedHat images
> > are not an option because my amazon credits don't cover them.
> 
> There are veewee definitions for centos6.0, probably that other junk
> too. https://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee/pull/78
> 
> Check out the chef-box project from @dysinger; you might be able to
> make use of it.
> 
> https://github.com/dysinger/chef-box
> 
> –AJ
> 
> ```