Finally, they’re available! Wait a moment.. Actually they’re available for few months, just nobody published information about moving them to quay.io and dropped poor guys using hub.docker.com without any updates! Yes, that how they did!
I found new place accidentally, reading some news about CentOS Stream 9 on their blog . There was reference to CentOS 9 Stream dev builds of Docker images and I found “missing” stream and stream8 tags too. It’s not adding more confidence on my side to the CentOS project, when they’re not even communicating such changes publicly, sick!
Some might remember, I was so desperate because of no official Docker images of CentOS 8 Stream available in Docker Hub, I build them on my own .
What I don’t like, is that they completely stopped upgrading base images for centos8 and centos7. There’s still a lot of stuff using them, but they’re not updated for months:
What next?
I switched my image to use as base new location quay.io/centos/centos:*. I’ll probably stay with my builds as I upgrade them on weekly basis. And because I squash them to single layer, they’re close to size of original images. Official images with all updates can easily get above 300MB.
REPOSITORY TAG CREATED SIZE
centos 7 8 months ago 204MB
quay.io/centos/centos 7 8 months ago 204MB
tgagor/centos 7 2 hours ago 214MB
quay.io/centos/centos 8 7 months ago 209MB
centos 8 7 months ago 209MB
tgagor/centos 8 2 hours ago 262MB
quay.io/centos/centos stream8 2 days ago 404MB
tgagor/centos stream8 2 hours ago 230MB
tgagor/centos stream9 2 hours ago 164MB
quay.io/centos/centos stream9-development 4 days ago 166MB
Where can you get it?
You can fetch docker image here:
Update on EOL - CentOS 8 Stream is dead .
Citing from this official blog:
- CentOS Linux 7 End of Life : June 30, 2024
After June 30, 2024, there will be no updates published for CentOS Linux 7.
- CentOS Stream 8 End of Builds : May 31, 2024
After May 31, 2024, CentOS Stream 8 will be archived and no further updates will be provided.
I will keep my up to date images as long as updates will be available, but it’s better to not waste and upgrade to CentOS 9 Stream.
Enjoyed?
