Re: Announcement: Debian 7.1 in the HP Cloud
On 31 July 2013 23:16, Juerg Haefliger <juergh@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>
> >> All,
> >>
> >> This is to let you know that a Debian 7.1 64-bit image is now
> >> available in the HP Public Cloud which is built on OpenStack:
> >> https://blog.hpcloud.com/debian-71-arrives-hp-public-cloud
> >>
> >> Let me know if you have an questions or comments or concerns
> >>
> >> ...Juerg
> >>
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> >
> > Nicely done! I am sure this is a welcome addition to the mix of cloud ready
> > debian images (great to see cloud-init in use btw., would love to hear
> > whether Charles, Thomas et al. know what they are doing :-P ).
>
> Oh they certainly know what they're doing. No question about it.
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>
> > Is there any automated way to get an image like that running or is it
> > manually built?
>
> Yes. A custom bash script using virt-install in the background.
>
>
> > *hint, hint: Is there any way to get HP into the fold:
> > https://github.com/andsens/build-debian-cloud/tree/python ...?
>
> Well... I'm trying to get out of the image-building business. I'd
> rather spend my time helping you build OpenStack/HP compliant images
> than doing it myself using and maintaining a hacky script. So how can
> I help?
>
> ...Juerg
>
> > Light hearted regards
> > Anders Ingemann
> Oh they certainly know what they're doing. No question about it.
Great! Also: Before anyone takes this too seriously, it was only in
jest (I am really not the one who should talk:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2013/07/msg00013.html)
> Well... I'm trying to get out of the image-building business. I'd
> rather spend my time helping you build OpenStack/HP compliant images
> than doing it myself using and maintaining a hacky script. So how can
> I help?
Heh, in my opinion? By adding your own build process to the script.
Really... Right now there are a few library functions (+ the huge
python library) and a boatload of tasks that can be generalized once
we have a common pattern.
By supporting the HP compliant way of doing things, people can use the
bootstrapper to not only make standard images but also customize
images with various plugins.
Once things are up and running, there should be only few HP specific
things that need maintenance for building an image, I suspect most
stuff is very common across cloud providers.
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