CentOS 7 is centrally supported at SLAC for the following platforms:

Although RHEL 7 is also available if required by your application for support, CentOS 7 is preferred and recommended instead.

Step-by-step guide

These are the steps to install and configure CentOS 7 at SLAC for a headless bare metal server, or virtual machine in VMware or OpenStack:

  1. Install CentOS 7 using either the Minimal or the DVD ISO available here:
    http://yum.slac.stanford.edu/iso/centos/7/
  2. Install Chef by running this command as root:
    curl http://yum.slac.stanford.edu/go-chef

  3. Two files still need to be manually edited:
    /etc/security/access.netgroup.conf

     

 

 

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