I should also point out that we're giving away quota for free to
anybody on debian-cloud who wants to kick the tires, and volunteer
their time to help out. Just let me know :)
-david
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz <jkaplowitz@google.com> wrote:
> Hi Jose,
>
> Glad you tried it and had a successful build! The $400/month support
> contract is a short-term requirement - once it reaches general availability,
> it will be similarly open to other public clouds.
>
> - Jimmy
>
>
> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Jose R R <Jose.r.r@metztli-it.com> wrote:
>>
>> Niltze, all!
>>
>> Being interested in Debian cloud instances and having deployed/used Debian
>> on different providers, including CloudSigma, RackSpace, HPCloud, &
>> SingleHop, I was quite interested in this thread.
>>
>> As wheezy release approaches, I tried to give the Google Compute (Cloud)
>> Engina a spin.
>>
>> I git cloned the repo at https://github.com/google/build-debian-cloud in a
>> machine with Debian Wheeze/Sid and:
>>
>> ./build-debian-cloud gce --codename wheezy --filesystem xfs --timezone PST
>> --name Metztli
>>
>> The image builds, so I assume it works as well. Did not try it because GCE
>> requires a $400 investment up front.
>>
>> From my perspective an elastic cloud fabric that enables virtualized
>> instances to be migrated to-and-from the users' local/personal computer (and
>> not only from a private/hybrid cloud in an enterprise datacenter) to the
>> public cloud of a vendor would be would be 'cool'.
>>
>> Anyhow, the code from your gitHub repo for the AWS & GCE Debian effort
>> builds a debian-wheezy-20130504.tar.gz file containing a disk.raw image.
>>
>>
>> I like the fact that Debian is being deployed on leading edge technology
>> paradigms as the cloud.
>>
>>
>> Best Professional Regards.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz <jkaplowitz@google.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Charles,
>>>
>>> Sorry for the slow response to this mail. The build command I'm using is
>>> simply sudo ./build-debian-cloud --codename squeeze or sudo
>>> ./build-debian-cloud --codename wheezy, from the top level of a checkout of
>>> https://github.com/google/build-debian-cloud or Anders' upstream repository
>>> (no unmerged changes exist right now). The code supports auto-upload and
>>> auto-image-add, but I'm not using either feature right now (auto-image-add
>>> also has some bugs for my setup). The commands after that would be something
>>> like this:
>>>
>>> # Upload the image. For this command, the bucket inside Google Cloud
>>> Storage can live anywhere, it doesn't matter and becomes irrelevant to an
>>> image once gcutil addimage runs.
>>> # I currently have mine in the debian-cloud project but it doesn't have
>>> to be. I might move it to the debian-cloud-experiments project, or anywhere
>>> else.
>>> gsutil cp debian-squeeze-20130502.tar.gz
>>> gs://jkaplowitz_gce_debian/debian-6_0_7-squeeze-v20130502.tar.gz
>>> # Create the image for testing purposes.
>>> gcutil --project=debian-cloud-experiments addimage
>>> debian-6-squeeze-v20130502 --description="Debian 6.0.7 squeeze, built on
>>> 2013-05-02" gs://jkaplowitz_gce_debian/debian-6_0_7-squeeze-v20130502.tar.gz
>>> --preferred_kernel=projects/google/global/kernels/gce-v20130325
>>> # Perform some testing before publishing to all Google Compute Engine
>>> customers, as we are providing a way for them to automatically pick the
>>> latest debian-cloud squeeze and wheezy images. The minimal example here
>>> confirms basic SSH functionality and cleans up after itself.
>>> gcutil --project=debian-cloud-experiments addinstance
>>> debian-6-squeeze-v20130502-$USER-test
>>> --image=projects/debian-cloud/global/images/debian-7-v20130502
>>> --zone=us-central1-b --machine_type=n1-standard-1
>>> gcutil ssh debian-6-squeeze-v20130502-$USER-test
>>> gcutil --project=debian-cloud-experiments deleteinstance
>>> debian-6-squeeze-v20130502-$USER-test
>>> # Delete the test image.
>>> gcutil --project=debian-cloud-experiments deleteimage
>>> debian-6-squeeze-v20130502
>>> # Publish the image for real.
>>> gcutil --project=debian-cloud addimage debian-6-squeeze-v20130502
>>> --description="Debian 6.0.7 squeeze, built on 2013-05-02"
>>> gs://jkaplowitz_gce_debian/debian-6_0_7-squeeze-v20130502.tar.gz
>>> --preferred_kernel=projects/google/global/kernels/gce-v20130325
>>>
>>> We've slightly tweaked the naming convention to have both number and
>>> codename and to avoid underscores (apparently not allowed), but I'll send a
>>> separate mail about our last-minute tweaks.
>>>
>>> Feel free to list us in the cloud team wiki page. I've been meaning to do
>>> it myself but haven't yet signed in to the Debian wiki on the computers I
>>> use when I focus on this effort. I'll fix that soon. :)
>>>
>>> - Jimmy
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Le Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 01:50:48AM -0700, Jimmy Kaplowitz a écrit :
>>>> >
>>>> > * The images are built with Anders' script build-debian-cloud
>>>> > (https://github.com/andsens/build-debian-cloud), which was called
>>>> > ec2debian-build-ami until we worked with him to add Google Compute
>>>> > Engine support.
>>>>
>>>> Hi Jimmy and David,
>>>>
>>>> build-debian-cloud is easy to use, but I found useful the command-line
>>>> snippet
>>>> on http://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Squeeze, that describes
>>>> how to
>>>> prepare the image for the Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud. Could you
>>>> paste one
>>>> (or send to the list so that one of us can paste), for the Google
>>>> Compute
>>>> Engine pages ?
>>>>
>>>> By the way, do you mind if I add your names to
>>>> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Cloud
>>>> (or please go ahead if you would like to add them yourselves).
>>>>
>>>> Have a nice day,
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Charles Plessy
>>>> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
>>>
>>>
>>
>>