diff --git a/elements/centos7/README.md b/elements/centos7/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b985b8b78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/elements/centos7/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Use Centos 7 cloud images as the baseline for built disk images.
+
+For further details see the redhat-common README.
diff --git a/elements/centos7/element-deps b/elements/centos7/element-deps
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c6e5925f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/elements/centos7/element-deps
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+cache-url
+dib-run-parts
+redhat-common
+rpm-distro
+source-repositories
+yum
diff --git a/elements/centos7/element-provides b/elements/centos7/element-provides
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a72e04969
--- /dev/null
+++ b/elements/centos7/element-provides
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+operating-system
diff --git a/elements/centos7/environment.d/10-centos7-distro-name.bash b/elements/centos7/environment.d/10-centos7-distro-name.bash
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..16184a3f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/elements/centos7/environment.d/10-centos7-distro-name.bash
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+export DISTRO_NAME=centos7
diff --git a/elements/centos7/install.d/00-install-cloud-init b/elements/centos7/install.d/00-install-cloud-init
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..847b07d60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/elements/centos7/install.d/00-install-cloud-init
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -eu
+set -o pipefail
+
+install-packages cloud-init
diff --git a/elements/centos7/pre-install.d/06-yum-repos b/elements/centos7/pre-install.d/06-yum-repos
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..e8ac67027
--- /dev/null
+++ b/elements/centos7/pre-install.d/06-yum-repos
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -eu
+set -o pipefail
+
+cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/centos7-latest.repo
+[rhel7]
+name=centos7
+baseurl=http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64-latest/
+enabled=1
+metadata_expire=7d
+gpgcheck=0
+EOF
+
+cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
+[epel]
+name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - \$basearch
+mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-7&arch=\$basearch
+failovermethod=priority
+enabled=1
+gpgcheck=0
+EOF
diff --git a/elements/centos7/root.d/10-centos7-cloud-image b/elements/centos7/root.d/10-centos7-cloud-image
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..a93e45ded
--- /dev/null
+++ b/elements/centos7/root.d/10-centos7-cloud-image
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -eu
+set -o pipefail
+
+[ -n "$ARCH" ]
+[ -n "$TARGET_ROOT" ]
+
+if [ 'amd64' = "$ARCH" ] ; then
+    ARCH="x86_64"
+fi
+
+DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE=${DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE:-}
+
+if [ -n "$DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE" ]; then
+    IMAGE_LOCATION=$DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE
+    # No need to copy a local image into the cache directory, so just specify
+    # the cached path as the original path.
+    CACHED_IMAGE=$IMAGE_LOCATION
+    BASE_IMAGE_FILE=$(basename $DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE)
+    BASE_IMAGE_TAR=$BASE_IMAGE_FILE.tgz
+else
+    DIB_RELEASE=${DIB_RELEASE:-Broken-20140620-Nightly}
+    DIB_CLOUD_IMAGES=${DIB_CLOUD_IMAGES:-http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/cloud}
+    BASE_IMAGE_FILE=${BASE_IMAGE_FILE:-CentOS-7-$DIB_RELEASE.qcow2}
+    BASE_IMAGE_TAR=$BASE_IMAGE_FILE.tgz
+    IMAGE_LOCATION=$DIB_CLOUD_IMAGES/$BASE_IMAGE_FILE
+    CACHED_IMAGE=$DIB_IMAGE_CACHE/$BASE_IMAGE_FILE
+fi
+
+$TMP_HOOKS_PATH/bin/extract-image $BASE_IMAGE_FILE $BASE_IMAGE_TAR $IMAGE_LOCATION $CACHED_IMAGE
diff --git a/elements/centos7/source-repository-centos7 b/elements/centos7/source-repository-centos7
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1d6a0c857
--- /dev/null
+++ b/elements/centos7/source-repository-centos7
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+lsb-release file /opt/stack/lsb-release/lsb_release https://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/lsb/devel/si/download/head:/lsb_release-20060624065236-gakl5b7e37gwk5mg-12/lsb_release
diff --git a/elements/pkg-map/bin/pkg-map b/elements/pkg-map/bin/pkg-map
index a17190083..7aa19562a 100755
--- a/elements/pkg-map/bin/pkg-map
+++ b/elements/pkg-map/bin/pkg-map
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import sys
 
 def os_family(distro):
     family = None
-    if distro in ['centos', 'fedora', 'rhel', 'rhel7']:
+    if distro in ['centos', 'fedora', 'rhel', 'rhel7', 'centos7']:
         family = 'redhat'
     elif distro in ['debian', 'ubuntu']:
         family = 'debian'
diff --git a/elements/redhat-common/bin/extract-image b/elements/redhat-common/bin/extract-image
index 4092175d0..2f8730d0d 100755
--- a/elements/redhat-common/bin/extract-image
+++ b/elements/redhat-common/bin/extract-image
@@ -46,31 +46,43 @@ else
         RAW_FILE=$(basename $BASE_IMAGE_FILE)
         RAW_FILE=${RAW_FILE#.qcow2}.raw
         qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O raw $CACHED_IMAGE $WORKING/$RAW_FILE
-        # WARNING: The mattdm image has the root filesystem on the second
-        #          partition (p2). If he changes the image the MAGIC_BIT
-        #          might also need to change.
-        # UPDATE to above warning alluding to Fedora18:
+
         # F19 images have the rootfs partition on p1
-        MAGIC_BIT=p1
+        # Centos7 images on p3 (p1 boot, p2 swap)
+        if [[ $DISTRO_NAME = "centos7" ]]; then
+            ROOT_PARTITON=p3
+        else
+            ROOT_PARTITON=p1
+        fi
+
         # kpartx fails if no /dev/loop* exists, "losetup -f" prints first unused
         # loop device and creates it if it doesn't exist
         sudo losetup -f
+
         # XXX: Parsing stdout is dangerous, would like a better way to discover
         #      the device used for the image.
-        # NOTE: On F17 (parted-3.0-10.fc17.x86_64), partprobe of
-        #       /dev/loop0 does not create /dev/loop0p2, while kpartx at
-        #       least creates /dev/mapper/loop0p2.
-        LOOPDEV=$(sudo kpartx -av $WORKING/$RAW_FILE | awk "/loop[0-9]+$MAGIC_BIT/ {print \$3}")
-        if ! timeout 5 sh -c "while ! [ -e /dev/mapper/$LOOPDEV ]; do sleep 1; done"; then
-            echo "Error: Could not find /dev/mapper/$LOOPDEV"
+        ROOT_LOOPDEV=$(sudo kpartx -av $WORKING/$RAW_FILE | \
+            awk "/loop[0-9]+$ROOT_PARTITON/ {print \$3}")
+        if ! timeout 5 sh -c "while ! [ -e /dev/mapper/$ROOT_LOOPDEV ]; do sleep 1; done"; then
+            echo "Error: Could not find /dev/mapper/$ROOT_LOOPDEV"
             exit 1
         fi
-        EACTION="sudo kpartx -d $WORKING/$RAW_FILE;$EACTION"
+        EACTION="sudo kpartx -d $WORKING/$RAW_FILE ; $EACTION"
         trap "$EACTION" EXIT
         mkdir $WORKING/mnt
-        sudo mount /dev/mapper/$LOOPDEV $WORKING/mnt
-        EACTION="sudo umount -f $WORKING/mnt;$EACTION"
+        sudo mount /dev/mapper/$ROOT_LOOPDEV $WORKING/mnt
+        EACTION="sudo umount -f $WORKING/mnt ; $EACTION"
         trap "$EACTION" EXIT
+
+        # need to copy the contents of /boot into the image too, so
+        # mount it
+        if [[ $DISTRO_NAME = "centos7" ]]; then
+            BOOT_LOOPDEV=${ROOT_LOOPDEV/p3/p1}
+            sudo mount /dev/mapper/$BOOT_LOOPDEV $WORKING/mnt/boot
+            EACTION="sudo umount -f $WORKING/mnt/boot ; $EACTION"
+            trap "$EACTION" EXIT
+        fi
+
         # Chroot in so that we get the correct uid/gid
         sudo chroot $WORKING/mnt bin/tar -cz . > $WORKING/tmp.tar
         mv $WORKING/tmp.tar $CACHED_TAR
diff --git a/elements/vm/finalise.d/51-bootloader b/elements/vm/finalise.d/51-bootloader
index 250982f26..d4771de9a 100755
--- a/elements/vm/finalise.d/51-bootloader
+++ b/elements/vm/finalise.d/51-bootloader
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ function install_grub2 {
             sed -i -e 's/\(^GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX.*\)"$/\1 nofb nomodeset vga=normal"/' /etc/default/grub
             GRUB_MKCONFIG=update-grub
         ;;
-        'Fedora')
+        'Fedora'|'CentOS')
             echo 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nofb nomodeset vga=normal"' >>/etc/default/grub
         ;;
         'openSUSE project')