Re: Debian 7.4 images available from HP cloud

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Clint Byrum <spamaps@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Excerpts from Jimmy Kaplowitz's message of 2014-03-27 12:08:50 -0700:
> > GCE images are built more than once per release currently, primarily to to
> > improve the GCE-specific integration code and CLI tools or adapt to changes
> > in the underlying environment and feature set. Occasionally there's
> > something else, like the performance-driven backports change Himanshu
> > mentioned on this list recently. So the CD frequency is only good as a
> > minimum, not a maximum.
>
> Agreed. For instance the Ubuntu images tend to be updated whenever the
> kernel is updated, since that is rather painful to update post-boot.
>
> >
> > That said, the more of the build process that Debian can automate, the
> > better. I'd also suggest that careful thought be given to testing; right
> > now we have some internal tests that we run for the GCE images, but
> > pre-publication testing is a generally useful pattern across all
> > environments.
> >
>
> Agreed. I'm sure we'd be happy to donate HP Cloud resources to accept
> an upload of a proposed image and make sure it boots / answers to SSH.

Right. And we provided a gratis account to Debian for that purpose.

I also want to point you at https://github.com/juergh/dwarf which might be useful for initial/local testing of an OpenStack image.
There are Ubuntu packages and I'm currently working on Fedora packaging. Let me know if there's interest in a Debian package.

...Juerg

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