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Carlos Goncalves 8226384cf0 Add CentOS 8 support 
* Add "centos" element, a CentOS version-independent element. This is in
  line with the same work done for RHEL in Stein cycle.
* Deprecate the centos7 element. CentOS 7 support itself it not
  deprecated though. The new "centos" element provides the same support
  level as the "centos7" element.
* Add functional testing

The default CentOS version is 8. You can adjust it using the DIB_RELEASE
environment variable.

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centos

Use CentOS cloud images as the baseline for built disk images.

For further details see the redhat-common README.

Environment Variables

DIB_DISTRIBUTION_MIRROR:
Required

No

Default

None

Description

To use a CentOS Yum mirror, set this variable to the mirror URL before running bin/disk-image-create. This URL should point to the directory containing the 7/8 directories.

Example

DIB_DISTRIBUTION_MIRROR=http://amirror.com/centos

DIB_CLOUD_IMAGES:
Required

No

Description

Set the desired URL to fetch the images from. ppc64le: Currently the CentOS community is working on providing the ppc64le images. Until then you'll need to set this to a local image file.

Example

DIB_CLOUD_IMAGES=/path/to/my/centos/8/CentOS-8-GenericCloud-x86_64.qcow2