Re: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 12/31/18 9:44 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> But it seems to me that making cloud-init to use some kind of plug-in
> architecture would be really helpful, even if it's not going to be a
> solution for the immediate future.

Cloud-init already has a kind of plugin architecture. You can activate /
deactivate many stuff in it, like updating your package list at boot
time and many other stuff.

> That, and cloud-init *badly* needs
> to get away from the "run-and-done" model.

That, we agree.

>> There are also other considerations such as Windows, feature release
>> co-ordination etc, runtime features (one thing Google's instance agent
>> supports is injecting new SSH keys to instances, which cloud-init as a "run
>> and done" doesn't support.)
> 
> "Run-and-done" also doesn't support disk snapshots and disk resizing
> properly.

You didn't react to my suggestion about having some kind of signal sent
by Qemu to the kernel. Isn't this a better idea than having a userland
agent doing it?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)