11-29-2018, 12:12 PM
Fedora 29 on ARM on AWS
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/fedora-29-on-arm-on-aws.png" width="72" height="72" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>This week Amazon announced their new <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-instances-a1-powered-by-arm-based-aws-graviton-processors/">A1 arm64 EC2 Instances</a> powered by their arm64 based Graviton Processors and, with a minor delay, the shiny new Fedora 29 for aarch64 (arm64) is now available to run there too!</p>
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<p>Details on getting running on AWS is in this good <a href="https://fedoramagazine.org/aws-tools-fedora/">article on using AWS tools on Fedora</a> article and over all using Fedora on the AWS arm64 EC2 is the same as x86_64.</p>
<p>So while a new architecture on AWS is very exciting it’s at the same time old and boring! You’ll get the same versions of kernel, same features like SELinux and the same versions of the toolchain stacks, like the latest gcc, golang, rust etc in Fedora 29 just like all other architectures. You’ll also get all the usual container tools like podman, buildah, skopeo and kubernetes, and orchestration tools like ansible. Basically if you’re using Fedora on AWS you should be able use it in the same way on arm64.</p>
<h1>Getting started</h1>
<p>The initial launch of A1 aarch64 instances are available in the following four regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland). Direct links to launch the Fedora aarch64 AMIs directly are available <a href="https://alt.fedoraproject.org/cloud/">here on the Fedora Cloud site.</a></p>
<h1>Getting help</h1>
<p>The Fedora support for aarch64 is very robust. It’s been widely used and tested across a number of platforms but of course with new users and new use cases will pick up issues that we’ve yet to encounter. So what is the best way to get help? If you’re having a crash in a particular application it should be reported in the usual way through <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/">RH Bugzilla</a>, we have an <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=245418">ARMTracker tracker alias</a> to block against to help identify Arm issues. For assistance with Arm specific queries and issues the <a href="https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/arm.lists.fedoraproject.org/">Fedora Arm mailing list</a> and we have the #fedora-arm IRC channel on Freenode.</p>
<h1>Known issues</h1>
<p>We have one known issue. The instance takes a while to get started, it can be up to 5 minutes. This is due to entropy and has been a general problem in virtual environments, across all architectures. We’re working to speed this up and it should be fixed soon. Once things are up an running though everything runs as expected.</p>
<h1>Upcoming features</h1>
<p>There will be Fedora 29 Atomic host coming in the next Two Week Atomic release, we unfortunately missed their release this time by a small window but it’ll be available in about 2 weeks with their next release and will appear on the site once released. We can’t let you have all the fun at once <img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/fedora-29-on-arm-on-aws.png" alt="?" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em;max-height: 1em" /></p>
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<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/fedora-29-on-arm-on-aws.png" width="72" height="72" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>This week Amazon announced their new <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-instances-a1-powered-by-arm-based-aws-graviton-processors/">A1 arm64 EC2 Instances</a> powered by their arm64 based Graviton Processors and, with a minor delay, the shiny new Fedora 29 for aarch64 (arm64) is now available to run there too!</p>
<p><span id="more-23545"></span></p>
<p>Details on getting running on AWS is in this good <a href="https://fedoramagazine.org/aws-tools-fedora/">article on using AWS tools on Fedora</a> article and over all using Fedora on the AWS arm64 EC2 is the same as x86_64.</p>
<p>So while a new architecture on AWS is very exciting it’s at the same time old and boring! You’ll get the same versions of kernel, same features like SELinux and the same versions of the toolchain stacks, like the latest gcc, golang, rust etc in Fedora 29 just like all other architectures. You’ll also get all the usual container tools like podman, buildah, skopeo and kubernetes, and orchestration tools like ansible. Basically if you’re using Fedora on AWS you should be able use it in the same way on arm64.</p>
<h1>Getting started</h1>
<p>The initial launch of A1 aarch64 instances are available in the following four regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland). Direct links to launch the Fedora aarch64 AMIs directly are available <a href="https://alt.fedoraproject.org/cloud/">here on the Fedora Cloud site.</a></p>
<h1>Getting help</h1>
<p>The Fedora support for aarch64 is very robust. It’s been widely used and tested across a number of platforms but of course with new users and new use cases will pick up issues that we’ve yet to encounter. So what is the best way to get help? If you’re having a crash in a particular application it should be reported in the usual way through <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/">RH Bugzilla</a>, we have an <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=245418">ARMTracker tracker alias</a> to block against to help identify Arm issues. For assistance with Arm specific queries and issues the <a href="https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/arm.lists.fedoraproject.org/">Fedora Arm mailing list</a> and we have the #fedora-arm IRC channel on Freenode.</p>
<h1>Known issues</h1>
<p>We have one known issue. The instance takes a while to get started, it can be up to 5 minutes. This is due to entropy and has been a general problem in virtual environments, across all architectures. We’re working to speed this up and it should be fixed soon. Once things are up an running though everything runs as expected.</p>
<h1>Upcoming features</h1>
<p>There will be Fedora 29 Atomic host coming in the next Two Week Atomic release, we unfortunately missed their release this time by a small window but it’ll be available in about 2 weeks with their next release and will appear on the site once released. We can’t let you have all the fun at once <img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/fedora-29-on-arm-on-aws.png" alt="?" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em;max-height: 1em" /></p>
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