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New CentOS Atomic Host Update Brings Docker 1.7.1 and Linux Kernel 3.10 LTS

Ostree 2015.6-4 and Atomic 1.0-108 are also included

Sep 11, 2015 00:47 GMT  ·  By
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The CentOS Project, through Jason Brooks, has had the pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download and upgrade of a new maintenance version of the CentOS Atomic Host operating system.

According to the announcement, CentOS Atomic Host 7.20150908 is an important release that brings with it numerous updated components, among which we can mention Linux kernel 3.10.0-229, Docker 1.7.1-108, Ostree 2015.6-4, Atomic 1.0-108, Cloud-init 0.7.5-10, Flannel 0.2.0-10, Kubernetes 1.0.0-0.8.gitb2dafda, and etcd 2.0.13-2.

"Today we’re releasing a significant update to the CentOS Atomic Host (version 7.20150908), a lean operating system designed to run Docker containers, built from standard CentOS 7 RPMs, and tracking the component versions included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host," says Jason Brooks.

For those of you who are not in the loop, we want to inform you that CentOS Atomix Host is a lean, open-source GNU/Linux operating system that has been designed from the offset to run Docker containers. The OS is built from standard CentOS 7 RPMs and based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host.

Here's how to upgrade to CentOS Atomic Host 7.20150908

Users of a recent CentOS Atomix Host operating system can upgrade to the current version released on September 10, 2015, by running the following command in a terminal emulator.

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sudo atomic host upgrade
On the other hand, those who are using an older version of CentOS Atomic Host, or those who run a different Atomic Hos can upgrade to CentOS Atomic Host 7.20150908 by running the following commands in the Terminal app.
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sudo ostree remote add centos-atomic-host http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/atomic/x86_64/repo
sudo rpm-ostree rebase centos-atomic-host:centos-atomic-host/7/x86_64/standard
CentOS Atomic Host 7.20150908 is available for download for free as a libvirt-formatted Vagrant box, a VirtualBox Vagrant box, an Amazon Machine image, a qcow2 image, as well as an installable ISO image. Of course, you can also download the latest version of the CentOS GNU/Linux operating system right now from Softpedia.