We’re all divided with recent decision to focus on CentOS Stream , which essentially means that stable, professional distro will turn into rolling release now. Also CentOS board members don’t gave us more confidence for the future .
I don’t want to be totally sceptic, I would like to test it on my own and only then, decide if it’s stable enough. But I work mostly with Docker containers and there are no official Docker images with Stream variant. I decided to create it on my own, based on official instruction .
Images after a switch were twice times bigger than basic centos:8, so I used old school way to squash them:
docker run --name tgagor-centos-stream tgagor/centos-stream true
docker export tgagor-centos-stream | docker import - tgagor/centos-stream:squashed
docker rm tgagor-centos-stream
This way I’m receiving just single layer with final packages and configuration. Result was pretty impressive:
REPOSITORY VARIANT SIZE
centos 8 209MB
tgagor/centos-stream latest 455MB
tgagor/centos-stream squashed 297MB
New image is still bigger (because upgrade install additional dependencies), but it’s acceptable. I also used Docker Hub’s hooks to customize build. Thanks to that, when you fetch image from registry, it will be already squashed ;)
Now at least I can try it and decide on my own, if it’s stable enough for production workloads.
Where can you get it?
You can fetch docker image here:
Update
Because other CentOS images do not receive updates anymore, I renamed repo from centos-stream -> centos and now I’m building all the variants installing all updates on them every week (automatically).
If you still use tgagor/centos-stream images, please switch to tgagor/centos.