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alrii14344

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Registered: 2018-01-07

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Google Compute Engine Image (Arch Linux)

I was creating/playing around images of linux instances in google compute engine recently. I found that most distribution has a public community support (redhat, centos, suse, debian, ubuntu) but NOT arch. I successfully created an arch linux (version 4.14.10) image that can run in compute engine. I was wondering if arch community willingly support maintaining arch images for GCE. I also want to actively maintain this images. The image I created was uploaded at:  https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/arch_linux/ .I use minimal installation packages included: base base-devel openssh. Image creation was made following the standard procedure set by Google Cloud.

Last edited by alrii14344 (2018-01-07 04:35:53)

tamelion

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Registered: 2014-03-23

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Re: Google Compute Engine Image (Arch Linux)

Hi, thanks for sharing! I've been looking for this recently too, the only thing I found is an unmaintained build script by a Google employee:
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/ … ge-builder

I like the idea of scripting the build (so we can tinker with settings, the Arch way -- fixing and pull requesting that might be a good place to contribute?

alrii14344

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Registered: 2018-01-07

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Re: Google Compute Engine Image (Arch Linux)

Thanks for the suggestion. I will look into the build script.

Austaras

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Registered: 2018-01-12

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Re: Google Compute Engine Image (Arch Linux)

HI, thank you for your great work
I've successfully built an GCE instance but what is the default root password?
EDITED: After some search I find out how

Last edited by Austaras (2018-01-12 08:31:50)

alrii14344

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Registered: 2018-01-07

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Re: Google Compute Engine Image (Arch Linux)

if you ssh using default browser:

[user@arch]$ sudo -i

then change your root password OR

[user@arch]$ sudo passwd root

Last edited by alrii14344 (2018-01-13 01:41:09)